Author Guidelines
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Introduction & scope
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Premiere Educandum is a platform for the publication of advanced scientific research in the areas of learning, instruction, and teaching. The journal welcomes original empirical investigations across the full spectrum of established methodologies, from laboratory experiments to field observations, and across any age level — from infants to adults — and any learning or instructional setting, from classroom to informal learning.
For manuscripts with an innovative or weighty methodology section, supplementary online material outlining the methodology is welcome (e.g., equations, data-treatment, syntax code, example data). The major criterion in review and selection is the significance of the contribution to the field of learning and instruction.
- Pure method studies (e.g., instrument validation) — better suited to specialized methods journals.
- Studies that rely overly on self-report measures.
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Rigor of studies
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State the extent to which the study is representative of a particular population, and the hierarchical structure of the data (e.g., time-points nested in students, nested in schools), with an explicit account of how that structure was addressed in the analysis. Prior publications based on the same project and/or data — especially those using the same or similar measures — must be acknowledged, and the unique contribution of the present manuscript stated explicitly. Supplementary materials covering data-quality control, alternative models, and explicit formulas are welcome.
Report effect sizes from previous studies to support an a priori power calculation (or simulation) for your design. Statements of implementation fidelity and treatment must be explicit, and findings should be shown not to be driven by extreme cases or outliers.
Outline sufficiently specific procedural detail to allow reviewers to judge whether standards for validity and reliability are met, using consistent, literature-grounded vocabulary. Procedures such as inter-observer reliability, triangulation, and audit trails must be transparent and well grounded.
Overly descriptive qualitative studies are typically not accepted.
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Submission & checklist
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Submission is entirely electronic, through the journal's OJS portal: journal-fkip.unipma.ac.id/pe/login, which guides authors step-by-step through the submission process. The Publisher and Editor are unable to consider submissions that do not follow this procedure.
Submissions do not go through language-focused copy editing by the journal, before or after acceptance — that responsibility sits with the authors prior to submission. American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of the two.
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Changes to authorship
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Authors should settle the definitive list and order of authors before original submission. Any addition, deletion, or rearrangement after that point requires Editor approval, and must only occur before acceptance except in exceptional circumstances. To request a change, the corresponding author must provide the Editor with:
- The reason for the change, and
- Written confirmation from all authors — including any author being added or removed — that they agree.
Publication is suspended while the Editor considers such a request. If the article has already appeared in an online issue, an approved change results in a corrigendum.
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Desk reject policy
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The editorial team applies a desk-review filter so that papers misaligned with the journal's aims, or missing essential information, do not enter the formal review process. This protects reviewers from papers that would likely be rejected regardless, and spares authors the typical three-month wait for an outcome that could have been clear from the start. A desk reject is returned without reviewer comments and is not sent out for review.
- Focus on instrument construction, validation, or research methodology rather than learning and instruction itself.
- Investigate a local, practical issue without embedding it in a theoretical or more global perspective.
- Rely only on self-reports or questionnaires.
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Section-by-section requirements
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| Required | Cover all relevant concepts/constructs in your research questions, relate them to the extant literature, and show how the study builds on the current knowledge base. |
| Advised | Report effect sizes per study rather than writing "these studies reported significant results"; provide sufficient detail for each study cited, and a graphical model of the relations between variables where applicable. |
| Required | A rationale for recruitment and selection, with an argument for sample-size sufficiency — for relatively small samples, ideally grounded in an a priori power calculation. |
| Advised | A classic experimental design with no control group or pretest is generally vulnerable; if used, explain the alternative means of control and contrast you implemented. |
| Required | Nested data should always be analyzed with multilevel methods — otherwise, justify the validity of the alternative used. Interdependencies among dependent variables reported in the Results must be stated. |
| Advised | Visual support for models or relations between variables, especially for mediation or moderation. |
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Article structure
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Title page & extras
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- Given name(s) and family name(s) for every author, accurately spelled, with affiliation addresses where the work was actually done.
- A clearly indicated corresponding author, responsible for correspondence through refereeing, publication, and post-publication queries — with an e-mail address kept up to date.
Minimum image size 531 × 1328 px (h × w), or proportionally larger — readable at 5 × 13 cm at 96 dpi.
Define non-standard abbreviations; any used unavoidably in the abstract must be defined at first mention there, and used consistently throughout.
Collate in a separate section before the references — not on the title page or as a footnote. List individuals who provided language help, writing assistance, or proofreading.
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Tables
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- Submit as editable text, never as images.
- Place next to the relevant text, or together at the end of the manuscript.
- Number consecutively in order of appearance; place notes below the table body.
- Use tables sparingly, and avoid duplicating results described elsewhere in the article.
- Avoid vertical rules and cell shading.
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References & citation style
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Every in-text citation must appear in the reference list, and vice versa — references cited in the abstract must be given in full there. Personal communications and unpublished results are best mentioned only in text; if listed, substitute the date with "Unpublished results" or "Personal communication." "In press" implies the item has already been accepted.
For web references, give the full URL and date last accessed, plus any further detail available (DOI, authors, dates). For datasets, cite in text and in the reference list with author(s), dataset title, repository, version, year, and a global persistent identifier — prefixed with [dataset] (removed at publication).
In-text citations follow APA style. The reference list is sorted alphabetically, then chronologically; multiple works by the same author(s) in the same year are distinguished with "a," "b," "c," etc.
Reference templates for CSL-compatible managers (e.g., Mendeley) are available on request from the editorial office.
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