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Australian Journal of Education

Australian Journal of Education

Published in Association with Australian Council for Educational Research

eISSN: 20505884 | ISSN: 00049441 | Current volume: 67 | Current issue: 3 Frequency: 3 Times/Year

The Australian Journal of Education, established in 1957, is an international peer-reviewed journal publishing research conducted in Australia and internationally to inform educational researchers, as well as educators, administrators and policy-makers, about issues of contemporary concern in education. In giving their advice to the editor, reviewers judge the merit of the research on the significance of its findings and the rigour with which the research is conducted and reported. Preference will be given to studies using well designed and implemented quantitative methodologies. Articles that are based on the author's personal experiences, reflections or small case studies that have limited generalisability are unlikely to be considered for publication. 

The Australian Journal of Education (AJE), established in 1957, is an international peer-reviewed journal publishing research conducted in Australia and internationally to inform educational researchers, as well as educators, administrators and policy-makers, about issues of contemporary concern in education.

Essential guidelines

To be considered by the editorial team, manuscripts must comply with the following guidelines.

1. Evidence. While the AJE publishes studies that use data from outside Australia, submissions are expected to make some link of the topic to the Australian context and to illustrate the relevance to the AJE readership. The link is likely to be made in the literature review and the discussion of results.

2. Language. Manuscripts should reflect the standard expected of a scholarly article in an English-language journal. English language editing services are available through SAGE author services.

3. Length and references. Manuscripts should normally not exceed 6,000 words in length, including the references section. All referencing should follow the 7th edition of the American Psychological Association Style guidelines (APA 7 style) https://apastyle.apa.org/.

4. Abstracts are to be about 100-150 words and should be supplied along with six keywords chosen from the Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors (4th ed.), compiled and edited by Anna Gifford and Barbara Spiller (Melbourne: ACER) and available at http://cunningham.acer.edu.au/multites2007/index.html. Remember that the abstract is not only the sales pitch that tempts the researcher into reading your article, it’s also the information that gives a search engine all the data it needs to be able to find your article and rank it in the search results page. Therefore, try to repeat the key descriptive phrases. Try to imagine the phrases a researcher might search for if your paper would be of interest to them. Google can detect abuse of this so don’t overplay it, focus on just 3 or 4 key phrases in your abstract. See also: https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/help-readers-find-your-article.

5. Manuscripts are expected to be structured by the following headings:

· Introduction/ background literature, ending with the research questions or hypotheses.

· Methodology. The information included in the methodology section should be of sufficient detail that a reader could replicate the study, for example, the procedures undertaken, data collection tools and methods of analysis should all be described clearly with appropriate references supplied for analytic approaches, techniques and software. Description of the study sample belongs here, not in the results section. Examples of data collection tools, such as survey questions or interview schedules, should be included in appendices. When inclusion of examples is not possible, such as in cases of copyrighted materials, appropriate references for the data collection tools are expected.

· Results, discussion. The results section should start with the answer to the first research question and subsequently answer all research questions in the order in which they were raised at the end of the background literature section. It is left to the authors to decide whether to have separate results and discussion sections. If they decide to have both, particular attention needs to be given to avoiding repetition and adhering to the word limit.

· Conclusion. The concluding section should state the main take-away of the article. Care should be taken for the conclusion to still be related to the evidence, analyses and results reported in the article.

6. Check before submission. Authors should use the following checklists and standards before submission:

· For quantitative research studies e.g. the STROBE checklist (Vandenbroucke et al., 2007).

· For qualitative research studies e.g. COREQ (Tong et al., 2007) and SRQR (O’Brien et al., 2014).

· For systematic reviews or scoping reviews e.g. PRISMA and PRISMAS-ScR.

7. Other resources

The AJE editorial team recommend making use of the above checklists and other resources available to prospective authors in structuring their manuscripts and checking for completeness of information reported in manuscripts prior to submission. Support for prospective authors is available through SAGE author services.

Types of manuscripts considered by the AJE

Original Research

The large majority of articles in the AJE report original research carried out by the researcher, either individually or as part of a research team. The research may use primary data, may involve secondary analyses of available data sets or synthesise evidence by way of meta-analyses or systematic reviews. In giving their advice to the editor, reviewers judge the merit of the research on the significance of its findings and the rigour with which the research is conducted and reported.

Preference will be given to studies using well-designed and implemented quantitative methodologies (e.g. secondary analyses, analyses using longitudinal data, structural equation modelling, hierarchical linear modelling, systematic reviews with meta-analyses etc). Articles that are based on the author's personal experiences, reflections or small case studies that have limited generalisability are unlikely to be considered for publication.

Research Reviews

To be suitable for publication in the AJE, a review of research such as a systematic review or a literature review needs to do more than summarise what is known. It should address clearly articulated questions and lead to conclusions that have the potential to change the way readers think about the field under review. To be considered for publication, authors of research and literature review manuscripts need to have completed a PRISMA or PRISMAS-ScR checklist and documented where manuscripts are unable to cover the requested information.

Policy Analyses

The AJE considers articles for publication that reflect on the consequences of past education policy decisions, and articles that analyse issues raised by current educational policies. The matters addressed need to have relevance to an Australian readership, either because they relate to Australian state, territory or national education policies, or because they draw conclusions from other countries that have clear implications for education policymakers in Australia. To be considered for publication in the AJE, such articles need to address matters of enduring importance, offer some new evidence, review existing evidence in a detailed way, or probe theoretical perspectives of the issues. Issues that are likely to be resolved in a matter of weeks or even months are more suited to newspapers and magazines than to a journal of record such as the AJE. Articles of this type should be no longer than 2000 words in length, including references.

Comments and Rejoinders

Where appropriate, the AJE may include a section called 'Comments and Rejoinders'. This section is intended to provide an avenue by which readers may respond to or comment on issues raised by articles published in the AJE. Contributions in this section are limited to a maximum of 1,000 words and the acceptance or rejection of such contributions is at the sole discretion of the editor (please direct emails to ajed@acer.org). Authors of articles that are the subject of comments and rejoinders may be consulted by the editor, and may, at the discretion of the editor, be invited to respond.

Book Reviews

From time to time, the AJE publishes book reviews. Usually these are at the invitation of the editor, but expressions of interest and proposals for reviews are always welcome (please direct emails to ajed@acer.org). Book reviews should be about 800 words in length.

Special Issues

The AJE also publishes special issues, each containing a set of invited articles focused on a particular topic. The decision to publish a special issue is taken by the editor, who works with a guest editor to determine the content, all of which is subject to review in similar manner to regular AJE content, as specified above. Proposals for special issues should be sent to the editor, allowing at least one year's lead time for negotiation of content, writing and review (please direct emails to ajed@acer.org).

Editor
Kylie Hillman Australian Council for Educational Research, Australia
Assistant Editor
Katie McDowell Australian Council for Educational Research, Australia
Juliet Young-Thornton Australian Council for Educational Research, Australia
Associate Editors
Sarah Buckley Australian Council for Educational Research, Australia
Kate Reid Australian Council for Educational Research, Australia
Jessica Thompson Australian Council for Educational Research, Australia
Editorial Board Members
Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews Western Sydney University, Australia
Bruce Chapman Australian National University, Australia
Sindu V. George Australian Catholic University, Australia
John Halsey Flinders University, Australia
Rob Hester University of Melbourne, Australia
Dan Kaczynski Central Michigan University
Tom Karmel AM Flinders University, Australia
Gregor Kennedy University of Melbourne, Australia
Veronica McKay University of South Africa, South Africa
David Rutkowski Indiana University, USA
Lawrence Saha Australian National University, Australia
Helen Watt University of Sydney, Australia
Christine Woodrow Western Sydney University, Australia
Rui Yang The University of Hong Kong
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  • Manuscript Submission Guidelines: Australian Journal of Education

    Please read the guidelines below then visit the Journal’s submission site http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/aed to upload your manuscript. Please note that manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned. Remember you can log in to the submission site at any time to check on the progress of your paper through the peer review process.

    Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of Australian Journal of Education will be reviewed.

    There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this Journal. Open Access options are available - see section 3.3 below.

    As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere. Please see our guidelines on prior publication and note that Australian Journal of Education may accept submissions of papers that have been posted on pre-print servers; please alert the Editorial Office when submitting (contact details are at the end of these guidelines) and include the DOI for the preprint in the designated field in the manuscript submission system. Authors should not post an updated version of their paper on the preprint server while it is being peer reviewed for possible publication in the journal. If the article is accepted for publication, the author may re-use their work according to the journal's author archiving policy.
    If your paper is accepted, you must include a link on your preprint to the final version of your paper.

    1. What do we publish?
      1.1 Aims & Scope
      1.2 Article types
      1.3 Writing your paper
    2. Editorial policies
      2.1 Peer review policy
      2.2 Authorship
      2.3 Acknowledgements
      2.4 Funding
      2.5 Declaration of conflicting interests
      2.6 Research Data
    3. Publishing policies
      3.1 Publication ethics
      3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
      3.3 Open access and author archiving
    4. Preparing your manuscript
      4.1 Formatting
      4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
      4.3 Supplemental material
      4.4 Reference style
      4.5 English language editing services
    5. Submitting your manuscript
      5.1 ORCID
      5.2 Information required for completing your submission
      5.3 Permissions
    6. On acceptance and publication
      6.1 Sage Production
      6.2 Online First publication
      6.3 Access to your published article
      6.4 Promoting your article
    7. Further information

     

    1. What do we publish?

    1.1 Aims & Scope

    Before submitting your manuscript to Australian Journal of Education, please ensure you have read the Aims & Scope, with particular reference to the Essential Guidelines and made use of the appropriate checklists for your type of study and analyses. 

    1.2 Article Types

    The Australian Journal of Education welcomes the following article types:

    Types of manuscripts considered by the AJE

    Original Research

    The large majority of articles in the AJE report original research carried out by the researcher, either individually or as part of a research team. The research may use primary data, may involve secondary analyses of available data sets or synthesise evidence by way of meta-analyses or systematic reviews. In giving their advice to the editor, reviewers judge the merit of the research on the significance of its findings and the rigour with which the research is conducted and reported. Preference will be given to studies using well-designed and implemented quantitative methodologies (e.g. secondary analyses, analyses using longitudinal data, structural equation modelling, hierarchical linear modelling, systematic reviews with meta-analyses etc). Articles that are based on the author's personal experiences, reflections or small case studies that have limited generalisability are unlikely to be considered for publication.

    Research Reviews

    To be suitable for publication in the AJE, a review of research such as a systematic review or a literature review needs to do more than summarise what is known. It should address clearly articulated questions and lead to conclusions that have the potential to change the way readers think about the field under review. To be considered for publication, authors of research and literature review manuscripts need to have completed a PRISMA or PRISMAS-ScR checklist and documented where manuscripts are unable to cover the requested information.

    Policy Analyses

    The AJE considers articles for publication that reflect on the consequences of past education policy decisions, and articles that analyse issues raised by current educational policies. The matters addressed need to have relevance to an Australian readership, either because they relate to Australian state, territory or national education policies, or because they draw conclusions from other countries that have clear implications for education policymakers in Australia. To be considered for publication in the AJE, such articles need to address matters of enduring importance, offer some new evidence, review existing evidence in a detailed way, or probe theoretical perspectives of the issues. Issues that are likely to be resolved in a matter of weeks or even months are more suited to newspapers and magazines than to a journal of record such as the AJE. Articles of this type should be no longer than 2000 words in length, including references.

    Comments and Rejoinders

    Where appropriate, the AJE may include a section called 'Comments and Rejoinders'. This section is intended to provide an avenue by which readers may respond to or comment on issues raised by articles published in the AJE. Contributions in this section are limited to a maximum of 1,000 words and the acceptance or rejection of such contributions is at the sole discretion of the editor (please direct emails to ajed@acer.org). Authors of articles that are the subject of comments and rejoinders may be consulted by the editor, and may, at the discretion of the editor, be invited to respond.

    Book Reviews

    From time to time, the AJE publishes book reviews. Usually these are at the invitation of the editor, but expressions of interest and proposals for reviews are always welcome (please direct emails to ajed@acer.org). Book reviews should be about 800 words in length.

    Special Issues

    The AJE also publishes special issues, each containing a set of invited articles focused on a particular topic. The decision to publish a special issue is taken by the editor, who works with a guest editor to determine the content, all of which is subject to review in similar manner to regular AJE content, as specified above. Proposals for special issues should be sent to the editor, allowing at least one year's lead time for negotiation of content, writing and review (please direct emails to ajed@acer.org).

    1.3 Writing your paper

    The Sage Author Gateway has some general advice and on how to get published, plus links to further resources. Sage Author Services also offers authors a variety of ways to improve and enhance their article including English language editing, plagiarism detection, and video abstract and infographic preparation.

    Checklists and standards to support authors in determining whether their manuscripts include all required information are available for quantitative research studies e.g. the STROBE checklist (Vandenbroucke et al., 2007), for qualitative research studies e.g. COREQ (Tong et al., 2007) and SRQR (O’Brien et al., 2014), and for systematic reviews or scoping reviews e.g. PRISMA (Moher et al., 2009) and PRISMAS-ScR (Tricco et al, 2018).

    The AJE editorial team recommend making use of these and other resources available to prospective authors in structuring their manuscripts and checking for completeness of information reported in manuscripts.

    1.3.1 Make your article discoverable

    When writing up your paper, think about how you can make it discoverable. The title, keywords and abstract are key to ensuring readers find your article through search engines such as Google. For information and guidance on how best to title your article, write your abstract and select your keywords, have a look at this page on the Gateway: How to Help Readers Find Your Article Online.

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    2. Editorial policies

    2.1 Peer review policy

    Contributions are reviewed by the editor and if considered suitable for review are sent to reviewers without identification. Australian Journal of Education operates a strictly anonymous peer review process in which the reviewer’s name is withheld from the author and the author’s name from the reviewer.

    Manuscripts are normally reviewed by two referees, but further advice can be sought where it is considered necessary. After receiving recommendations from the reviewers, the editor determines whether the manuscript is accepted, sent for revision or rejected. All manuscripts are reviewed as rapidly as possible, and an editorial decision is generally reached within 12 weeks of submission. The editor reserves the right to vary those processes.

    2.2 Authorship

    All parties who have made a substantive contribution to the article should be listed as authors. Principal authorship, authorship order, and other publication credits should be based on the relative scientific or professional contributions of the individuals involved, regardless of their status. A student is usually listed as principal author on any multiple-authored publication that substantially derives from the student’s dissertation or thesis.

    Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.

    2.3 Acknowledgements

    All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, or a department chair who provided only general support.

    Please supply any personal acknowledgements separately to the main text to facilitate anonymous peer review.

    2.3.1 Third party submissions

    Where an individual who is not listed as an author submits a manuscript on behalf of the author(s), a statement must be included in the Acknowledgements section of the manuscript and in the accompanying cover letter. The statements must:

    •    Disclose this type of editorial assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of input 
    •    Identify any entities that paid for this assistance 
    •    Confirm that the listed authors have authorized the submission of their manuscript via third party and approved any statements or declarations, e.g. conflicting interests, funding, etc.

    Where appropriate, Sage reserves the right to deny consideration to manuscripts submitted by a third party rather than by the authors themselves.

    2.4 Funding

    Australian Journal of Education requires all authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading.  Please visit the Funding Acknowledgements page on the Sage Journal Author Gateway to confirm the format of the acknowledgment text in the event of funding, or state that: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

    2.5 Declaration of conflicting interests

    Australian Journal of Education encourages authors to include a declaration of any conflicting interests and recommends you review the good practice guidelines on the Sage Journal Author Gateway.

    2.6 Research Data

    The journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages.

    Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to:

    • share your research data in a relevant public data repository
    • include a data availability statement linking to your data. If it is not possible to share your data, we encourage you to consider using the statement to explain why it cannot be shared.
    • cite this data in your research 

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    3. Publishing Policies

    3.1 Publication ethics

    Sage is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the Sage Author Gateway.

    3.1.1 Plagiarism

    Australian Journal of Education and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article, for example, is found to have plagiarised other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article; taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; or taking appropriate legal action.

    3.1.2 Prior publication

    If material has been previously published it is not generally acceptable for publication in a Sage journal. However, there are certain circumstances where previously published material can be considered for publication. Please refer to the guidance on the Sage Author Gateway or if in doubt, contact the Editor at the address given below.

    3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement

    Before publication, Sage requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. Sage’s Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement is an exclusive licence agreement which means that the author retains copyright in the work but grants Sage the sole and exclusive right and licence to publish for the full legal term of copyright. Exceptions may exist where an assignment of copyright is required or preferred by a proprietor other than Sage. In this case copyright in the work will be assigned from the author to the society. For more information please visit the Sage Author Gateway.

    3.3 Open access and author archiving

    Australian Journal of Education offers optional open access publishing via the Sage Choice programme and Open Access agreements, where authors can publish open access either discounted or free of charge depending on the agreement with Sage. Find out if your institution is participating by visiting Open Access Agreements at Sage. For more information on Open Access publishing options at Sage please visit Sage Open Access. For information on funding body compliance, and depositing your article in repositories, please visit Sage’s Author Archiving and Re-Use Guidelines and Publishing Policies.

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    4. Preparing your manuscript for submission

    4.1 Formatting

    Your manuscript must be formatted and submitted in Microsoft Word. Formatting instructions are available on the Manuscript Submission Guidelines page of our Author Gateway.

    4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics

    For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format, please visit Sage’s Manuscript Submission Guidelines.

    Figures supplied in colour will appear in colour online regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version. For specifically requested colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from Sage after receipt of your accepted article.

    4.3 Supplemental material

    This journal is able to host additional materials online (e.g. datasets, podcasts, videos, images etc) alongside the full-text of the article. For more information please refer to our guidelines on submitting supplementary files.

    4.4 Reference style

    Australian Journal of Education adheres to the APA reference style. View the APA guidelines to ensure your manuscript conforms to this reference style.

    4.5 English language editing services

    Authors seeking assistance with English language editing, translation, or figure and manuscript formatting to fit the journal’s specifications should consider using Sage Language Services. Visit Sage Language Services on our Journal Author Gateway for further information.

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    5. Submitting your manuscript

    Australian Journal of Education is hosted on Sage Track, a web based online submission and peer review system powered by ScholarOne™ Manuscripts. Visit http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/aed to login and submit your article online.

    IMPORTANT: Please check whether you already have an account in the system before trying to create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the journal in the past year it is likely that you will have had an account created.  For further guidance on submitting your manuscript online please visit ScholarOne Online Help.

    5.1 ORCID

    As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review process Sage is a supporting member of ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID. ORCID provides a unique and persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from every other researcher, even those who share the same name, and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities, ensuring that their work is recognized. 

    The collection of ORCID IDs from corresponding authors is now part of the submission process of this journal. If you already have an ORCID ID you will be asked to associate that to your submission during the online submission process. We also strongly encourage all co-authors to link their ORCID ID to their accounts in our online peer review platforms. It takes seconds to do: click the link when prompted, sign into your ORCID account and our systems are automatically updated. Your ORCID ID will become part of your accepted publication’s metadata, making your work attributable to you and only you. Your ORCID ID is published with your article so that fellow researchers reading your work can link to your ORCID profile and from there link to your other publications.

    If you do not already have an ORCID ID please follow this link to create one or visit our ORCID homepage to learn more.

    5.2 Information required for completing your submission

    You will be asked to provide contact details and an academic affiliation (please list just 'one' affiliation i.e. University or Organisation), for all co-authors via the submission system and identify who is to be the corresponding author. This must be listed as Affiliation name, Country (no department names, towns, state names, zip-codes or postal codes). These details must match what appears on your manuscript. The affiliation listed in the manuscript should be the institution where the research was conducted. If an author has moved to a new institution since completing the research, the new affiliation can be included in a manuscript note at the end of the paper. At this stage please ensure you have included all the required statements and declarations and uploaded any additional supplementary files (including reporting guidelines where relevant).

    5.3 Permissions

    Please also ensure that you have obtained any necessary permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please see the Copyright and Permissions page on the Sage Author Gateway.

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    6. On acceptance and publication

    6.1 Sage Production

    Your Sage Production Editor will keep you informed as to your article’s progress throughout the production process. Proofs will be made available to the corresponding author via our editing portal Sage Edit or by email, and corrections should be made directly or notified to us promptly. Authors are reminded to check their proofs carefully to confirm that all author information, including names, affiliation, (please list just 'one' affiliation i.e. University or Organisation), sequence and contact details are correct, and that Funding and Conflict of Interest statements, if any, are accurate.

    6.2 Online First publication

    Online First allows final articles (completed and approved articles awaiting assignment to a future issue) to be published online prior to their inclusion in a journal issue, which significantly reduces the lead time between submission and publication. Visit the Sage Journals help page for more details, including how to cite Online First articles.

    6.3 Access to your published article

    Sage provides authors with online access to their final article.

    6.4 Promoting your article

    Publication is not the end of the process! You can help disseminate your paper and ensure it is as widely read and cited as possible. The Sage Author Gateway has numerous resources to help you promote your work. Visit the Promote Your Article page on the Gateway for tips and advice. 

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    7. Further information

    Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the manuscript submission process should be sent to the Australian Journal of Education editorial office as follows:

    Kylie Hillman, Editor

    ajed@acer.org

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