Submissions

Submission is currently disabled for this journal.

We invite prospective authors to submit content fitting with JETHE’s scope and mission. Each submission must adhere to the guidelines listed here. Submissions that don’t adhere to the guidelines may be returned to authors. Note, authors should not submit work that has been previously published or work that is currently undergoing consideration by another journal.

Before submitting you should read over the guidelines here, then register an account (or login if you have an existing account)

 

About

Overview

The Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education (JETHE) is an open-access electronic peer-reviewed journal that advances the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) focused on institutions of higher education. JETHE publishes original research articles (between 3,000 and 6,000 words) employing a diverse range of rigorous qualitative and quantitative scholarly research methodologies.  

Focus and Scope

Typically published twice per year, the journal seeks to foster the following:

  • Scholarly exploration of best practices in effective teaching in post-secondary education that can be appreciated by instructors across disciplines and institutional contexts.
  • Encourage critical conversations about SoTL from faculty members with international and/or interdisciplinary perspectives;
  • Contribute to conversations about differences in effective teaching practices among institutional contexts, including traditional and non-traditional learning environments (i.e., online/hybrid models; interdisciplinary programs; heterogeneous student populations); using evidence-based and theoretically informed scholarship.
  • Provide a forum for faculty and course instructors to reflect upon and share strategies, outcomes or projected outcomes, and recommendations resulting from their engagement with new, innovative, and/or reenvisioned teaching practices. 

Open-Access Statement

All content can be freely accessed and shared according to a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), and users are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose. We do not charge a fee for publishing in JETHE.

 

Submission Checklist

Prior to submission, please be sure that you have prepared: 

  1. A cover letter detailing the aims and scope of the manuscript, corresponding author's contact information, disclosure of GenAI use and writing assistance (see JETHE's Generative AI Policy)
  2. A blinded manuscipt using the JETHE Blinded Manuscript Template
  3. A non-blinded manuscript containing all author and institutional affiliations using the JETHE Non-Blinded Manuscript Template

Manuscript Length: No more than 6,000 words. Manuscript length excludes components outside of the main body text such as abstract, tables/figures, reference list, etc.

Manuscript Components: Submissions should include the following components:

Title (no more than 100 characters including spaces)
Abstract (no more than 150 words)
3–5 keywords
Author name(s) and author affiliation(s)

Manuscripts must follow the general format of a research article (introduction, review of literature, methods, results or findings, discussion grounded in literature, implications for practice, and references). Please note, your manuscript must include an "implications for practice" section to be considered for publication. 

Citation Style: APA 7.

Please verify:

Failure to provide valid reference information is grounds for immediate rejection or retraction at any point throughout the peer-review and publication process. 

Manuscript Template: Submissions must be submitted using the preformatted JETHE Manuscript Templates (JETHE Blinded Manuscript Template; JETHE Non-Blinded Manuscript Template). To maintain the template’s accessible formatting, it’s recommended that you either 1) type directly into the document, or 2) copy and paste your text into the template, being sure to strip the copied text of its formatting prior to pasting it into the template.

Submission Files: The submission file is in OpenOffice or Microsoft Word document file format.

 

If the following are not met, manuscripts will be prompty returned to the author without undergoing peer-review:

  1. Your manuscript uses and is formatted in accordance with the JETHE Template (which can be found on JETHE’s submission page). 
  2. The blinded (anonymized) manuscript contains no identifying information (including hidden data and personal information stored in submitted documents).
  3. References, figures, and tables should be formatted according to the guidelines in the The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), 7th Edition and should be referred to within the text of the article/review. 
  4. Your manuscript must follow the general format of a research article and must include a section header titled "implications for practice".
  5. DOIs are provided for all articles when available and the URL version of DOIs are provided in place of the static DOI (i.e., https://doi.org/...) 
  6. A cover letter detailing:
    1. Aims and scope of the manuscript
    2. Corresponding author's contact information
    3. Disclosure of GenAI use and writing assistance (see JETHE's Generative AI Policy)

 

Generative AI Policy

  • Authors are responsible for all content in their manuscript.  
  • The final decision on submitted manuscripts and published articles containing impermissible use of AI lies with the editor(s).  
  • The use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools of any kind, including the use of large language models (LLMs) and chatbots, must be disclosed in a cover letter for every submission. Failure to provide a cover letter with every submission will be grounds for rejection.
  • Authors must acknowledge any writing assistance of any kind in the cover letter and provide detailed information about how the study was conducted and how the results were generated in the main text of the manuscript.
  • In the cover letter as well as in the actual text of the manuscript, authors must include all prompts used to carry out or generate analytical work and/or help report results (e.g., generating tables or figures).
  • Authors are responsible for verifying and citing source materials discovered using GenAI tools. At any point throughout the peer-review and publishing process, manuscripts containing citations that cannot be verified by the editors will be rejected.  
  • The editors may seek assistance from a third party to determine whether an JETHE GenAI Policy violation was made. 
  • Editors may make use of detection software and/or tools to identify violations of the JETHE GenAI Policy.
  • GenAI tools cannot be credited as co-authors.  
  • The editors may refuse future submissions from authors who have been found to be in violation of these or any JETHE policy.  

 

The following are examples of inappropriate uses of AI:  

  • Generation of data (qualitative an/or quantitative) using a series of prompts.
  • Conducting interviews with GenAI tools in lieu of participants for qualitative research.
  • Non-disclosed use of GenAI tools used to carry out or generate analytical work, and/or help report results (e.g., generating tables or figures).
  • Plagiarism or inappropriate attribution to prior sources.
  • Generated images that are presented as unique or novel research images.
  • Fabricated references or falsified claims.

Peer Review

Manuscripts submitted to JETHE are initially screened by the editor(s); those meeting the aims and scope of the journal as well as the submission guidelines are then sent for double-blind peer review. 

Licences

The following licences are allowed:

  • Copyright
    © the author(s). All rights reserved.
  • CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
    None
  • CC BY 4.0
    Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
  • CC BY-ND 4.0
    Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
  • CC BY-NC 4.0
    Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
  • CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
    Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes. NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
  • CC BY-SA 4.0
    Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Publication Cycle

This journal published continuously all year round/publishes in issues every x months.

Sections

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