Teaching Educational Research Methods Submission

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Teaching Educational Research Methods (TERM) is an interdisciplinary journal that is focused on the importance of quality teaching, teaching preparation, and teaching practices in equipping ethical and effective educational researchers across mixed methods, qualitative, quantitative, measurement, and evaluation classrooms. 

Focus and Scope

Teaching Educational Research Methods (TERM) publishes scholarship from a variety of research paradigms and designs that elevate curricular and pedagogical practices, issues, and innovations used to teach students and researchers about research methods and methodologies. The journal’s content is divided into six Sections:

  • Empirical Studies/Research Articles
  • Conceptual Discussions
  • Pedagogical Practices
  • Literature Reviews
  • Student Voices
  • Book / Software Reviews

Submission Checklist

Double-anonymized Peer Review option:

  • Anonymized manuscript
  • Abstract
  • Keywords
  • Cover letter is not required. 

Developmental Review option:

  • Manuscript
  • Abstract
  • Keywords
  • Cover letter indicating:
    • that the author is requesting developmental review
    • any Developmental Editor(s) with whom the author would like to work

Copyright Notice

As a condition of publication in TERM, authors grant to TERM first publication rights to any articles accepted for publication. Copyright for all work published in the journal is retained by the author(s).

Works published in TERM will be distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. By granting a CC BY-NC license in their work, authors retain copyright ownership of the work, but they give explicit permission for others distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator.

Authors may enter into separate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the work. Authors may also post any version of their work online in an institutional or disciplinary repository or on a personal website. Any versions of the article posted elsewhere should include a citation and a link to the journal’s website.

It is the responsibility of the authors to secure all necessary copyright permissions for the use of third-party materials in their manuscript. Authors will be required to provide written evidence of this permission upon acceptance of the manuscript. Copyright permission will not be necessary if the use is within fair use, if the work is in the public domain, or if the rightsholder has granted a Creative Commons or other license consistent with the copyright terms of TERM.

Peer Review

When submitting a manuscript to TERM, the authors will decide between double-anonymized peer review and developmental review. 

Licences

The following licences are allowed:

  • 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.

Publication Fees

We do not charge a fee for publishing in TERM.

Publication Cycle

TERM publishes two issues per year in the spring and fall, with submissions accepted on a rolling basis.

Sections

Section or article type Public Submissions Peer Reviewed Indexed
Student Research Yes Yes Yes
Article Yes Yes Yes

AI Policy

Teaching Educational Research Methods (TERM) recognizes that artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly changing and expanding field of study and engagement in research, teaching, and academic writing.  

To support authors’ manuscript preparation, TERM’s policy on AI submissions is detailed below and adheres to both COPE’s and APA’s positions on AI. Note that TERM Editors will regularly review this policy to reflect emerging technologies, ethical standards, and pedagogical practices in qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods education research. If authors have concerns or questions about how a particular manuscript might fit within these guidelines, please contact the journal Editors.

COPE 
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT or Large Language Models in research publications is expanding rapidly. COPE joins organizations, such as WAME and the JAMA Network among others, to state that AI tools cannot be listed as an author of a paper.

AI tools cannot meet the requirements for authorship as they cannot take responsibility for the submitted work. As non-legal entities, they cannot assert the presence or absence of conflicts of interest nor manage copyright and license agreements.

Authors who use AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent in disclosing in the Materials and Methods (or similar section) of the paper how the AI tool was used and which tool was used. Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics. 
 
Cited from COPE: https://publicationethics.org/guidance/cope-position/authorship-and-ai-tools  
 
APA  
APA’s current policies on generative AI are:

  • When a generative AI model is used in the drafting of a manuscript for an APA publication, the use of AI must be disclosed in the methods section and cited.
  • AI cannot be named as an author on an APA scholarly publication.