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Family Environment Scale

Everything in this article is relevant to the topic. The article is about the Family Environment Scale (FES). There wasn't anything distracting in this article because all of the information was informative solely for the purpose of explaining the FES.

This article is not biased for the most part. Although the information on the validity of the scale is important, it seems as if there were not enough sources to provide different perspectives on it.

It seems as if, again, the validity is lacking compared to the rest of the article. The article is short in general but the validity section is only one sentence.

After clicking on two of the links for the sources it seems as if the sources support what is being written in the article.

In the beginning of the article many of the facts were supported with references to the sources used to collect the information. But after a while no in-text citations were provided. This causes the readers of this article to have to search the reference section and read all of the sources until they find where the facts came from.

This page was last edited in September of 2017. At this point in time it is April of 2018. Although this is not too much time, this also means that the sources used to create this page are at last seven months old. There could be other, newer sources out there that would bring the information provided on this page up to date.

The only information in the talk page of this wikipedia page explains that some external links were fixed.

Although this page is not yet rated, it is a part of a project called WikiPoject Sociology.

This topic has not been talked about in class, therefore there cannot be a comparison between that and the way this page talks about the FES.

In class 4/24 Three to five areas to edit: 1. Considering there is only one sentence under the validity section of this article, I will add more information there. 2. There are no articles in the 'see also' section of this page. I will add informational articles that relate to the family environment scale. 3. The information in the scale inventory section seems to jump from one thing to another, creating little to no flow in the page. I will add information in between some of the paragraphs to make the fluidity more efficient. 4. Some of the sentences in the scale inventory section seem to be incomplete or missing important structural things. I will fix these up for a more educated, proper article.

Finalizing topic and finding sources: In a section of a handbook about marriage and families, the Family Environment Scale is talked about. One of the sub sections goes on to talk about the reliability and validity of the scale. There is a lot of information there, explaining how it may not always be accurate. In the wikipedia page for the scale, it seems that there is only one point of view about the validity of the scale. And, considering that there is only one sentence in that section of the wikipedia page, I will add more information based on the fact that the scale is not 100% accurate all the time. Many of the reliable, frequently used wikipedia pages have many 'see also' sources. The wikipedia page that I will be editing has none. After doing some more research on this scale, I will add sources that I did not use to provide information from, but that hold information that can be useful when researching the Family Environment Scale. A lot of the edits that I will be making to this article will be to clean it up, and make it grammatically correct. There are some structural errors that I will fix to improve the overall quality of the page as well. Bibliography: Sherman, Robert, and Norman Fredman. Handbook of Measurements for Marriage and Family Therapy. Routledge, 2014.

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