SUMMARYREPORT: "SEC S20W1: Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture"

Hello Steemians,

Welcome to the weekly summary of our competition, organized by Team-Agro as part of the ongoing Steemit Engagement Challenge (SEC) season 20. For this first week's report, from September 9th to 15th, 2024, we hosted an exciting topic for the week under review, the theme "Climate Change Impacts on Agricultural Productivity.

The week's topic gave us more insights and the opportunity to look into some of the most important concerns about climate change relative to how they hamper agricultural production. There were many salient points brought to the table during this discussion, and they were evident from the submissions received. A proper understanding of climate change helps farmers mitigate from a stronger point when faced with some of these challenges.

However, during the week's engagement, students showed extremely applaudable entries with detailed analysis of all task questions. During reviews, there was several practical knowledge shared as they explored the impacts of climate change on agricultural productivity. Many insights received were commendable while handling tasks in extreme rains and droughts, emerging new pests and diseases, and how best to respond to climate change.

This summary report represents an analysis of all submissions made while capturing the real and hands-on agropractices of different students. It also brings a clearer understanding of all mentioned concepts in climate change factors, and I urge us to also find time to go through the links posted in the comment section for more insights. Every entry posted came with its own knowledge and shared details.

Entry Statistics

For week one entries, we received a total of 46 valid entries, with all demonstrating an applaudable level of compliance bearing in mind the rules and guidelines. The outcomes were deserving of all these valid entries recorded having satisfied the need to handle tasks given. However, we had a case pending review after being flagged for plagiarism by the #freewritehouse.

Valid Entries	Invalid Entries	AI/Plagiarized Content	Total Entries Captured
46	0	1	47

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Country Participation Indices

In total, we had a pull of 8 countries that participated in the week's one teaching challenge. Pakistan. Nigeria and Venezuela happen to represent 69% of the entire entries captured.

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Entry Performance

A good number of entries captured for the week under review made excellent and good entries. While 55% were categorized under excellent entries, 41% were rated as good quality. These two major and acceptable score qualities had a combined performance of 96%, which demonstrates the student's in-depth understanding and hands-on knowledge regarding the topic "Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Productivity."

However, we have a 4% combined rating for average and poor quality distribution, which is quite infinitesimal to the total entries reviewed. A case of plagiarism flagged by #freewritehouser resulted in one count of poor quality recorded. This does not remove the fact that there were other warnings recorded during the review. We hope those affected stay clear from further infractions, no matter how insignificant, as they are already watched. Hence, this also played a role in our decision while making our top five (5) selections for the week.

While we continue in the season's teaching challenge, we must continue on the path of making original and course-related contributions that are both beneficial to all, bearing in mind the need to adhere accordingly to the rules guiding our participation.

Top Users This Week

After a keen evaluation process, we accessed the student's quality entry as a major determinant in the selection process while strongly taking into cognizance their adherence to all stipulated rules as required.

In addition, there were students with slight warnings or no warnings due to little fragment traces of AI. They may be insignificant, but they also matter to us, but this would not be given a pass for a reward presentation. Subsequently, a review to completely flag such publications would be made.

We have made our selection based on outstanding articles that provided quality content on the topic of discussion. Here are the five participants we recognized for this week:

Ranking	Usernames	Article
1	@motofajaman	link
2	@adriancabrera	link
3	@chant	link
4	@marpa	link
5	@chilaw	link

Conclusion

We are glad with the participation and percentage of quality content seen for the week. It was a nice turnout, having enticed 47 participants for a start. We look forward to a larger participation in our week two challenge.

We will want to thank all participants for their quality contributions while we encourage students to stay away from plagiarism, word spinning, and the use of AI.

Regards,
@xkool24
For Team-Agro

Cc: @mainuna