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Article title: Education
Article Evaluation: This article is a really great article and gives a lot of good information and background on education. Everything is thought out very well and it is nicely organized. The tone of the article does not imply bias but there is little confusion in the data. Some things to point out are that this article does not talk about other countries like it should; it can seem very sheltered in that sense. It also seems to be very much ahead in its time compared to where education is today. What I mean by that is e-education is not prominent like people may think it is. I suggest that the author look into other countries education systems a little more and do so comparisons there. Otherwise, it is a great article to get basic knowledge on.
Sources: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131880802082518?casa_token=Cd-tLXMSWY0AAAAA%3AzUb7SXTgaE4AuHOAS0jUToWNMH_VfbmvuftL5H1KZbiWp0JKyg7KBhKASvAFImiszokfL2_oO9pQgA; https://academic.oup.com/wber/article-abstract/15/3/367/1657648; https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/29614/1/MacDonald-1974-Evaluation_and_the_Control_of_Education.pdf

Article title: Homework
Article Evaluation: This article did a very good job of talking about homework and all that homework brings. There does seem to be a bias against homework as most of the data points away from it and the author did not list many benefits. The author also talked a little bit about the UK and Spain, but not much about other countries. They also hit heavily on criticism. Something that the author could improve on is organizing their article a little bit. History should go under the lead and criticism should go under benefits. The sources that they used seemed to be reliable and scholarly. The amount of sources shows that they did a lot of research on this and looked at many different opinions.
Sources: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/499654; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.3102/0013189X025008027?casa_token=AzJrjmglcngAAAAA:6y_evokIB2W4PdXBgnfKzhTsuL5YOX0WkbaLY-_8_jtn52O_O2tACIGhkztlVvaYEJxUvZpC-o2heA; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1023460414243

Article title: Active learning
Article Evaluation: This article could use some help. It is highly biased against active learning and almost works at discrediting the learning theory. Although the author seems to have a lot of information, it is questionable. The article itself is messy and it seems to be lacking some basic things. The author should work at not being so biased when writing this article along with doing research that benefits both sides.
Sources: https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/advan.00053.2006?; https://www.oaa.osu.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/nfo/2019/Active-Learning-article.pdf; https://www.engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/drive/1YB2KK3wLqP3EhXyYdKtE9-4mBJzc2rc2/Active%20Learning%20Tutorial.pdf

Article title: Action teaching
Article Evaluation: This article is quite short and lacks information; it seems unfinished. The author has quite a few different points, but they do not discuss them like they should. History of action teaching would also be nice to include (not only origins of action teaching). The points that the author makes are interesting, but they are not fulfilling. After looking at the talk page, it seems that this article has been revised for inclusion by a professor. This article can be a very good one if it included more information and discussion.
Sources
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2167/illt42.0