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Article Selection[edit]

Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Learning Disability[edit]

Article title
Language-based learning disability
Article Evaluation
  • Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes
  • Is it written neutrally? Yes
  • Does each claim have a citation? No, a lot of the information is missing a citation, or incomplete.
  • Are the citations reliable? Some of the hyperlinks do not relate to the word that they are referencing.
  • Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)? The article describes individuals with learning disabilities, which may qualify as an inhibitory factor in society (underrepresented population).
  • Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too. This article is noted as a start-class project, and does not have any recent updates on the Talk page (last one done in 2020).
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Politics in Education[edit]

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Politics in education
Article Evaluation
  • Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Somewhat, although it does not integrate any information regarding education and politics. Instead, it simply gives very brief background on two different levels of politics.
  • Is it written neutrally? Yes
  • Does each claim have a citation? No, two main points do not have citations.
  • Are the citations reliable? Yes
  • Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)? No, the information currently briefly discusses different forms of politics, and hints at their relevance in the education system.
  • Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too. This article seems to need substantial editing, and is a stub relating to education. The Talk section includes other peer evaluations of the article, highlighting the need for additional information. Sources

Age segregation in education[edit]

Article title
Age segregation in schools
Article Evaluation
  • Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes
  • Is it written neutrally? Yes
  • Does each claim have a citation? Yes
  • Are the citations reliable? The citations are reliable, however the information is lacking. Wikipedia also indicates that this article needs editing, as it may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
  • Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)? No, the main focus of this article is the idea of separating students by their age, rather than intellectual abilities.
  • Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too. This article has been rated a stub-class on the project's quality scale. Additionally, there is only one message on the Talk page, and it was written in 2018. Sources

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Option 5[edit]

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