User talk:Elizabethgaribay58

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Hi, I have some notes for your work on the charter schools article.

• The first is that I saw that you used studies as sources. Studies should generally be avoided unless they're accompanied with a secondary source that reviews the study or comments upon the specific claim that is being stated. The reason for this is that studies are primary sources for any of the claims and research conducted by their authors. The publishers don't provide any commentary or in-depth verification, as they only check to ensure that the study doesn't have any glaring errors that would invalidate it immediately. Study findings also tend to be only true for the specific people or subjects that were studied. For example, a person in one area may respond differently than one in an area located on the other side of the country. Socioeconomic factors (be they for the person or a family member) also play a large role, among other things that can impact a response. As such, it's definitely important to find a secondary source, as they can provide this context, verification, and commentary. Aside from that, there's also the issue of why a specific study should be highlighted over another. For example, someone could ask why one study was chosen as opposed to something that studied a similar topic or had different results.

For example, one of the studies is of high-income suburban parents in Denver, Colorado. The results could have differed if they'd held this in another state or with middle class families instead of high income.

Now that said, you can use the literature reviews in a study, but you must be careful to only use content that doesn't comment upon the researchers' study premise or findings. For example, you could use something that summarizes findings from several different studies to show a broader context such as "Findings were similar between This Study and That One, showing that..." but you couldn't use material along the lines of "These findings seem to suggest that our premise is...".

• You want to make sure that you're attributing claims and writing the content so it doesn't come across as a comparative or persuasive essay. I think that this can mostly be resolved through more attribution. Even so, be careful with sentences like this:

So in this study, the parents used their social network but did not conduct extensive research so what they knew was more limited.

This comes across as more of an interpretation of the study as opposed to a summary, as this would be seen as a personal judgement call on the research and the results. Something like that can be seen as subjective, as another person may argue the opposite. Now if it's stated in the source, it should be attributed along the lines of "This Person stated that as the parents used their social network but did not conduct extensive research so what they knew was more limited". This comes across like it's something from the study, so it just more needs to be attributed more clearly.

I hope this helps! My general thought here is that this just needs secondary sources and clearer attribution. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:42, 16 August 2019 (UTC)