User:Nstynka/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I am choosing this article because of my interaction with the STEM field as a chemistry major and graduate from a STEM based high school. STEM is important for the advancement of knowledge and economic growth. This article provides a good overview to the STEM academic discipline.

Evaluate the article
This article provides a good introduction to STEM as an academic discipline, as well as other variations to STEM such as STM. The lead section provides a brief description of some of the articles major subjects but fails to adequately touch on others. Overall the introduction is concise and not overly detailed. The content if the article is relevant and primarily up to date. One important variation of STEM that is missing is STEAM, where the arts are included. The article discusses the racial and gender gap in the field, however some of these statistics have not been updated for 10 years. The article maintains a neutral point of view and does not show any heavy bias with efforts to persuade a specific viewpoint. STEM in the United States is much more represented than other countries but minority viewpoints are addressed. The references used in the article are reliable and the links work. The article provides a table of contents and is broken down into appropriate sections that aid in understanding the main ideas. The language is concise and the article does not have many grammatical errors. Only one image is included in the article but it is well captioned and integrated into the text well. The image is not needed for the understanding of the text but it does help to break up the text.

The talk page does discuss some of the issues mentioned above, such as it being US-centered and needing some updating. It also addresses the STEAM with arts not being included. It is of interest in several wiki projects.

Overall the article provides a good overview of the STEM field and its impact in different communities. The article does need some updating and could be improved by taking a more broad approach rather than just focusing on the USA. Despite some of the drawbacks of the article, it is developed well.