Author Guidelines
GENERAL GUIDELINES
- The manuscript submitted is a result of an empirical research or scientific assessment of an actual issue in the area of educational measurement, evaluation, and assessment in a broad sense, which has not been published elsewhere and is not being sent to other journals.
- Only articles written in English will be considered. Any consistent spelling and punctuation styles may be used. Long quotations of 40 words or more should be indented without quotation marks.
- A typical manuscript is approximately 8-20 pages using the manuscript [template] including the abstract, tables, figures, references, and captions (A4; margins: top 3, left 3, right 2, bottom 2; single column; single-spaced; font: Garamond, 12).
- All tables and figures are adjusted to the paper length and are numbered and referred to the text.
- The manuscript must be in *.doc or *.rtf , and sent to REiD's Management via online submission by creating an account in the Open Journal System (OJS) [click REGISTER if you have not had any account yet, or click LOG IN if you have already had an account].
- All correspondences, information, and decisions for the submitted manuscripts are conducted through the email/s used for the submission.
- If you have submission queries, please contact reid.ppsuny@uny.ac.id.
ACADEMIC WRITING GUIDELINES
Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order, without numbering:
Title
The title of the manuscript should clearly represent the content of the article. Besides, the title has to protect the privacy and security of the research’s subjects. A capital letter is only used at the beginning of the title, except for proper nouns or wherever it appropriates. The title should reflect the content of the whole article, the employed methodology, or the raised issue under study.
Author identities
Authors' identities (under the title) on the submitted articles should be omitted, and replaced by the following item:
Anonymous
(Author's identity is omitted due to the review process)
Please fill in Author(s)’ identity(es) completely in the submission form. All Author(s)' names and identity(es) must be completely embedded in the form filled in by the corresponding author, including email and affiliation.
[if the manuscript is written by two or more authors, please click 'Add Author' in the 3rd step of 'ENTER METADATA' in the submission process and then enter each author's data.]
Abstract
An abstract of 200-250 words is required for any submitted manuscript. It is written narratively containing at least the aim(s), method, and the result(s) of the research.
Keywords
Each manuscript should have 3 to 6 keywords written under the abstract. The keywords should help audience search the relevant literature to their interest.
Main text
The main text should adhere to the following order and proportions:
- Introduction (20%)
The introduction contains background, rationale, and/or the urgency of the research. Reference (literature or relevant research(es) need to be included in this part; its relation to the justification of the research urgency; the emergence of research problems; alternative solution; and the solutions which are chosen. Problems, aims/objectives, and benefits of the research, and operational definition (if needed) are written narratively in paragraphs.
- Method (10%)
The method comprises the design of the research, population, and samples, procedures, instruments (including its’ validity dan reliability), data collection tools, and data analysis techniques. All of these stages need to be detailed in a report format (past tense), except for general explanations and references.
- Findings and Discussion (60%)
The findings and discussion are explained in a section (and can be separated in two sub-sections of Finding section and Discussion section). Findings are the presentation of the research purely based on the analyzed data. The discussion is the explanation of the findings relevant to the literature discussed in the introduction and other relevant theories and ideas.
- Conclusion (10%)
The conclusion can be in the form of finding generalization based on the research problems.
- Acknowledgments (if any)
The funding or grant-awarding bodies is acknowledged in a separate paragraph. For single agency grants: "This work was supported by the [Name of Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx].
- References
The citation and references are referred to American Psychological Association (APA) (Seventh Edition) style. APA Style format for references can be checked in http://www.citationmachine.net/apa/cite-a-website. The author is strongly recommended to use Reference Manager applications to facilitate referencing.
Examples of Reference style:
For Books:
Mardapi, D. (2016). Pengukuran, penilaian, dan evaluasi pendidikan. Parama Publishing.
Hoy, W. K. & Miskel, C. G. (2008). Educational administration: Theory, research, and practice (8th ed.). McGraw-Hill International Edition.
For Journal Articles:
Widiastuti, I. A. M. S., Mukminatien, N., Prayogo, J. A., & Irawati, E. (2020). Dissonances between teachers’ beliefs and practices of formative assessment in EFL classes. International Journal of Instruction, 13(1), 71–84. https://doi.org/10.29333/iji.2020.1315a.
Chisholm, J., Alford, J., Halliday, L., & Cox, F. (2019). Teacher agency in English language arts teaching: A scoping review of the literature. English Teaching: Practice & Critique, 18(2), 124–152. https://doi.org/10.1108/ETPC-05-2019-0080.
For Book Chapter:
James, M. (2015). Educational assessment: Overview. In P. Peterson, E. Baker, & B. McGaw (Eds.), International encyclopedia of education (3rd ed., pp. 161–171). Elsevier. https://www.elsevier.com/books/international-encyclopedia-of-education/peterson/978-0-08-044893-0
For Online Newspaper Articles:
Becker, E. (2001, August 27). Prairie farmers reap conservation's rewards. The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com
For Technical and Research Reports:
Hershey Foods Corporation. (2001, March 15). 2001 Annual Report. Retrieved from http://www.hersheysannualreport.com/2000/index.htm
For Website:
Census data revisited. (n.d.). Retrieved March 9, 2009, from Harvard, Psychology of Population website, http://harvard.edu/data/index.php
For Blog Post:
Lincoln, D. S. (2009, January 23). The likeness and sameness of the ones in the middle. [Web log post]. http://www.blogspace.com/lincolnworld/2009/1/23.php
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