Primary Education

The Journal of Primary Education aims to be a medium for international and interdisciplinary original scientific studies, to produce qualified discussions about education, and to contribute to shaping policies related to education in Turkey. For this reason, the studies to be published are expected to provide new and original contributions to the discussions on education and technical competence. Thus, it is aimed to contribute to the formation of an accumulation of the people and institutions who will take advantage of working in the field of education in Turkey.

Journal of Primary Education is a peer-reviewed academic journal on preschool and primary school education. In this context, the journal publishes quality studies with research findings and designs of national and international importance in all up-to-date subjects. The journal prioritizes studies with robust theoretical frameworks, critically associating the relevant literature with the subject, well-structured research design and analysis, and recommendations and results for national and international advanced research and policy implementations. The journal includes theoretical studies that deal with education and provide practical expansions to the subject. Original research, experimental and clinical studies, policy analyses, and case reports from different disciplines are published in this context.

A) The studies that Primary Education prioritizes are as follows:
A1) Establishing the connection between theory and practice and supporting teacher training processes,
A2) Examining in depth the development, management, and supervision issues in education,
A3) Transferring the voices (thoughts) of students, parents, teachers, and administrators in natural education environments to well-designed studies,
A4) Evaluating local policies, programs, and innovations from an international perspective,
A5) Helping to develop new education models, measurement tools, and interdisciplinary research designs,
A6) Combining learning environments with technology,
A7) Multidisciplinary (interdisciplinary) and transdisciplinary (above-disciplinary) studies (such as STEM),
A8) Developing educational measurement tools and testing their usefulness at the same time,
A9) Including technology integration that helps develop educational practices,
A10) Developing a new theoretical or applied educational model and evaluating this model,
A11) Supporting the professional development processes of teachers.

*Studies with the above characteristics but at least one of the following characteristics will not be included in the peer review process.

B) Primary Education excludes the following studies from its scope:
B1) Studies focusing on a simple conceptual framework,
B2) Studies conducted with incorrect methodology,
B3) Simple quantitative studies conducted with only one independent variable (for example, the effect of variable x on variable y),
B4) Simple qualitative or quantitative studies conducted with only one data collection tool (for example, analyses conducted only according to demographic variables, only through interviews or scales),
B5) Studies based only on the opinions of participants,
B6) Quantitative studies not conducted with a sufficient number of samples (For such studies, accepted formulas in the literature should be taken into consideration, and a minimum sample size limit should be determined depending on the universe.),
B7) Attitudes, behaviors, etc., formed by university students towards a course they take. studies measuring their characteristics,
B8) Local studies outside the scope of international topics (For example, studies only focusing on simple (non-international, local) scale development and adaptation),
B9) Studies outside the focus of educational sciences or primary education (Engineering education studies within the scope of STEM education can be accepted according to the editorial opinion. If the disciplines in question are addressed within the education framework, they may fit the journal's scope. For example, studies developing history education models and applied with students are included in the scope of the journal.),
B10) Studies conducted with weak scientific methods, low validity and reliability (For example, studies that do not conduct content analysis even though content analysis is mentioned, studies with weak quantitative/qualitative data analysis),
B11) Studies whose place and importance are not clearly explained (For example, studies whose contribution to the literature on the relevant subject, theoretical place, and infrastructure of the study are not presented in a qualified manner).

File Format: Submissions should be prepared in Microsoft Office Word (.doc, .docx) or a compatible file format.

Page Layout: 2.5 cm margin must be left for all sides.

Font: 12 pt "Times New Roman" font should be used for the entire text.

Paragraph Structure: There should not be any spaces before and after the paragraph. Line spacing should be set at 1.5.

Journal of Primary Education (Temel Eğitim) follows "Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" and "Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" published by Committee on Publication Ethic (COPE). For more information, please visit: https://publicationethics.org/

Code of Ethics

Editorial: The editors should;

appoint at least two referees suitable for the subject of the candidate article,
ensure the communication between the reviewer and the responsible authors, taking into account the blind review process,
maintain their relations in a transparent and objective manner without discriminating between any authors and reviewers,
not use their position for their own personal and academic interests,
provide clear and detailed justifications for the rejected articles,
consider also scientific research, publication and reviewer ethics.

Reviewers: The reviewers should;

be experts in the fields addressed by the candidate article,
obliged to make their criticisms objectively and clearly,
not act in line with their own personal interests/opinions,
be considered that the texts are personal and should not be shared with third parties,
not transfer information from the article for their own work, and should not pursue any academic/personal interests,
provide clear and detailed justifications for the rejected articles,
consider also scientific research, publication and reviewer ethics.

Authors: The authors should;

not be cite as authors People who do not contribute to the study during scientific research and writing,
avoid situations such as irresponsible authorship, piracy, fabrication, multi-publishing, split-publishing, biased source, biased publication, violation of human-animal ethics, which are stated as unethical behaviors,
act in accordance with the citation system specified in the journal during the writing phase of the candidate article,
not be cite unpublished works,
not publish part of any work without permission or reference,
indicate the financial sources of the study, if any.

Open Access Policy
Articles published in this journal are permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search and link to the full texts of these articles.

License Policy
Articles published in this journal are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
Copyright Policy

This journal allow the author(s) to hold the copyright and will allow the author(s) to retain publishing rights without restrictions.
Double-Blind Peer Review Policy

This journal uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process.To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity. To help with this preparation please ensure the following when submitting:

Submit the Title Page containing the Authors details and Blinded Manuscript with no author details as 2 separate files.

Information to help prepare the Title Page
This should include the title, authors' names and affiliations, and a complete address for the corresponding author including telephone and e-mail address.

Information to help prepare the Blinded Manuscript
Besides the obvious need to remove names and affiliations under the title within the manuscript, there are other steps that need to be taken to ensure the manuscript is correctly prepared for double-blind peer review. To assist with this process the key items that need to be observed are as follows:

Use the third person to refer to work the Authors have previously undertaken, e.g. replace any phrases like “as we have shown before” with “… has been shown before [Anonymous, 2007]”.
Make sure figures do not contain any affiliation related identifier.
Do not eliminate essential self-references or other references but limit self-references only to papers that are relevant for those reviewing the submitted paper.
Cite papers published by the Author in the text as follows: ‘[Anonymous, 2007]’.
For blinding in the reference list: ‘[Anonymous 2007] Details omitted for double-blind reviewing.’
Remove references to funding sources.
Do not include acknowledgments.
Remove any identifying information, including author names, from file names and ensure document properties are also anonymized.

Plagiarism Policy

Articles published in this journal are checked by iThenticate plagiarism detection service.

Fee Policy

This journal does not charge APCs or submission charges.

Repository Policy

This journal allows all versions of published articles including,

Submitted version
Accepted version (Author Accepted Manuscript)
Published version (Version of Record)

to be deposited in an institutional or other repository of the author’s choice without embargo.

This journal does not charge APCs or submission charges.