Editorial methodology: how we verify our articles.

Our editorial approach

The NOEO Journal answers the practical questions of students, parents and tutors: study methods, revision, keeping track of schooling, guidance. Each article starts from a specific question and opens with a summary, “The essentials”, that answers it in a few lines before going into detail.

Our articles inform and advise. They do not replace the opinion of a tutor who knows the student, nor official texts, which prevail.

Named authors

Every published article is signed by a named person whose role and biography are public. An article with no author, or whose author has no role or biography on file, cannot go live. Each author’s page presents their background and gathers their articles.

Some articles also name a person who reviewed them, with a link to their page. This mention only appears when it has been filled in: it is never added automatically.

• Émilie Zajdman, Private tutor in maths and accounting · Co-founder of NOEO
• Nicolas Lochon, Senior financial auditor at KPMG France · Chartered accountant candidate (thesis stage)
• Pierre Basile, Web developer and AI applied to education · Co-founder of NOEO
• Sébastien Lochon, Private tutor for 6 years · Co-founder of NOEO

To find out who NOEO is and who builds it, see the About page.

Verified information

We choose our sources in this order:

1. Official texts and websites, when the subject concerns a rule or public data: the French Ministry of National Education, ONISEP, INSEE, Legifrance, service-public.fr.
2. Studies and reference publications, for questions of method and learning: research bodies, universities, scientific journals.
3. The primary source, for information about a company or a service: its own page, rather than an article commenting on it.
4. The author’s teaching experience, presented as such: an observation from the field, never a figure.

Some subjects do not tolerate approximation. An article on school curricula, exams, coefficients and Parcoursup, the school calendar, regulations, taxation, prices and statistics, methods drawn from research cannot be published without at least two sources, one of them institutional or scientific. For subjects that change from one year to the next (exams, regulations, taxation, calendar), three sources are required.

Not every sentence is sourced: a tip on method or an account of experience does not always have a reference to cite. A figure, a date or the result of a study, however, must be, and a source points to the exact page that carries the information. An opinion or testimonial article may be exempted from sources; the exemption must be justified. When an article relies on sources, they are listed at the end of the article.

The role of artificial intelligence

We may use artificial intelligence tools to prepare an article: exploring ideas, structuring an outline or producing a first draft. These tools assist the editorial work; they decide nothing.

They never publish an article. Nothing goes live without the explicit approval of a member of the NOEO team, and every article, whether or not a tool contributed to it, goes through the checks described below before it is published.

This approval confirms publication and triggers those checks. It does not mean that every sentence has been rewritten or read line by line.

Checks before publication

No article goes live without the explicit approval of a member of the NOEO team. At that point, and again at the time of publication if it is scheduled, the article is checked:

• the article is signed, filed under a category, and opens with a summary, “The essentials”, that answers its question directly;
• the sources required by its subject are present;
• claims about NOEO are checked, so that an article announces neither a feature that does not exist nor a guarantee we do not give;
• it does not cover the subject of an existing article without a distinct angle;
• its links to other NOEO pages lead to pages that exist;
• its structure stays readable: a clear heading hierarchy, alternative text for images.

A single blocking issue is enough to prevent publication.

Corrections and updates

A published article may be corrected or updated: when a rule, a calendar or a price changes, or when a reader points out an error. An article that has become inaccurate and cannot be corrected quickly may be withdrawn from the Journal. The publication date appears at the top of each article. When a substantive revision is made, an update date is added; a simple typographical correction does not change it.

Report an error

Does some information seem inaccurate or out of date? Write to us with the article’s address and the passage concerned. You can also write to contact@noeo.io.