User:Mxf1209/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Science education

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this because education is very important to me and my educational experience in college has been studying science. Therefore, I am interested in what is written on Wikipedia regarding science education. I also think that this topic relates to the Communicating Science class because science education involves educating people about science.

Evaluate the article
I think the article has a concise and informative leading section. It does not provide an overview of the article's topics.

The article's content was relevant to the topic. I think much of it could be added onto as each sub section is fairly concise. There are sub sections regarding science education by country and it seems that more countries could be added to this list as it only includes United States, China, Australia, and the United Kingdom thus far.

There are some statements made that I am not sure if they are backed up by sources, such as the statement that was made suggesting that teachers have to rush through science material (under the United States subheading). This may be true but there is no source for this statement. The most recent sources are from 2018 there may be more current research available. There are also several long quotations that could be paraphrased. Overall the content of this article could be improved. There are also few mentions of equity gaps.

The images are well captioned but relate moreso to science in general rather than the focus of science in schools and science education.