Publications

The Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist

The Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist is the official journal of the APS College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists.

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Please contact the editor Terry Bowles (t.bowles@patrick.acu.edu.au) if you have any further queries regarding the journal.

 

About the Publication
1. Aim

The Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist publishes psychological research that makes a substantial contribution to the knowledge and practice of education and developmental psychology. The broad aims are to provide a vehicle for dissemination of research that is of national and international significance to the researchers, practitioners and students of educational and developmental psychology.

The general aims of the journal are:

  • to disseminate research relevant to the field of educational and developmental psychology;
  • to facilitate the exchange of information between Members of the College;
  • to promote the aims of the College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists of the Australian Psychological Society.
2. Scope

The journal publishes psychological research relevant to education across all ages and educational levels. The Journal will publish submissions on a diverse range of content and subjects including:

  • Intelligence, cognition, literacy, numeracy and language;
  • Learning, motivation, achievement, efficacy, coaching, and training;
  • Emotional and behaviour, social, and relationship development;
  • Personality;
  • Language, mathematics, theory of mind, drawings, spatial cognition, biological and societal understanding;
  • Curriculum, curriculum delivery and design, educational policy and provision;
  • Career and vocational development;
  • Developmental difficulties, developmental issues across the whole age/stage range in particular pertaining to the above, including comparison across the age range;
  • Issues pertaining to atypical development, including developmental disorders, learning difficulties/disabilities, and sensory impairments;
  • The influence of background issues including: family, social behaviour, education, social context and culture.
3. Guest and Special Issues

Guest editors will be invited to manage an edition and special editions of the journal involving contributions from invited authors. On occasion, relevant peer commentaries and reviews will be invited from researchers.

4. Circulation

The circulation of the Journal is mainly national. Papers are invited and encouraged from authors throughout the world.

 

Instructions to authors and description of the process

1. Review Process

The journal operates a policy of anonymous, expert, peer review. Papers will be critically and rigorously reviewed by the Editor and a minimum of two independent expert reviewers. The reviews are blind (reviewers will not know the identity of authors).

Authors will be notified of the receipt if the manuscript. After the double-blind review is complete the manuscript, reviews, and the decision letter will be forwarded to the author. After editing the author will resubmit the manuscript (with corrections and explanations) for final formatting in readiness for printing.The journal is published in two editions per year and authors will be notified in which edition of the journal the paper will be published.

2. Instructions to Authors
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    • Submissions are expected to be theoretically grounded and methodologically sound.
    • Authors are expected to write their manuscript and prepare their references in line with the APA style guide.
    • Two cover pages are expected, one deidentified.
    • Manuscripts must be typed in double spacing with margins of a minimum of two centimetres.
    • Number each page.
    • All manuscripts should begin with an Abstract, of not more than 250 words describing the salient information about Background, Aims, Sample, Methods, Results Conclusions, and Importance.
    • Tables and figures, accompanied by their title, should be typed in double spacing, one per page.
    • Tables and figures should be placed at the end of the manuscript and an indication (e.g. PLACE TABLE ONE ABOUT HERE) in text of the manuscript showing where it is to be situated, close to its reference in the text.
    • Wherever possible, effect size should be indicated.
    • Authors are expected to write in an inclusive manner in reference to gender, and ability/disability.
    • Authors are responsible for acquiring written permission to publish lengthy quotations, illustrations etc for which they do not own copyright.
    • Authors are responsible for ensuring that the research described has been gathered, analysed and presented in the most ethically and scientifically respectful and rigorous manner.
    • Ensure that there are no means of establishing the authorship from the text.
3. Manuscript Length

Papers should normally be no more than 6,000 words, although the Editor retains discretion to publish papers beyond this length in cases where the clear and concise expression of the scientific content requires greater length.

Brief reports (less than 3,500 words) are also welcome. Please indicate at submission which type of paper is being submitted.

4. Criteria for Publication

In making your report you are requested to pay attention to the following points.  The paper:

  • is sufficiently theoretically and empirically grounded;
  • is sufficiently original;
  • clearly advances knowledge and practice in educational and developmental psychology;
  • contains balanced syntheses, summaries, conclusions, arguments, reason and is balanced;
  • has clear grammar, syntax, and expression;
  • is ordered;
  • is free of faults in experimental procedure, proposed application, or theoretical reasoning;
  • is free of errors in mathematics, calculations, units, etc.;
  • is parsimonious;
  • reads well;
  • has a title and abstract that is appropriate;
  • has figures and tables that are correctly labelled;
  • has appropriate references, free from obvious omissions, and correctly written.
5. Submission of the Manuscript

All manuscripts will he acknowledged and will be reviewed by the Editorial Board or by invited reviewers.

Dr Terry Bowles
Editor, AEDP
Telephone: (03) 9953 3117
E-mail: t.bowles@patrick.acu.edu.au

6. Copyright

It is the policy of the Australian Psychological Society to own the copyright to its publications, and to the contributions contained therein, in order to protect the interests of the Society and its authors, and at the same time to facilitate the appropriate reuse of this material by others.  Therefore, upon acceptance of their manuscript for publication by the Society, authors will be sent a copyright transfer form to fill out and return to the Editor. Publication of the manuscript will be contingent upon receipt of the completed copyright transfer form.

Publications of the Society are distributed to various other publications for review and abstracting purposes. In addition, the Society has contractual agreements with various secondary publishers for the republication, in hard copy, microfilm, or digital form, of individual articles and journal issues as a whole.

It is the Society’s position that the abstracts that are published with its journal articles are indicative of and not a substitute for, the work as a whole; therefore, access services are allowed free use of these abstracts without securing the permission of the Society.

Enquiries about policy and procedures relating to permission to reproduce material published in the journal should he directed to the Australian Psychological Society.

5. Disclosure

"The publication of an advertisement by the Australian Psychological Society is not an endorsement of the advertiser nor of the products and services advertised. Only those professional development activities carrying the APS logo and an appropriate endorsement statement can be considered to be specifically approved by the APS. Advertisers may not incorporate in a subsequent advertisement or promotional piece the fact that a product or service has been advertised in any publication of the Society. The publications of the Society are published for and on behalf of the membership to advance psychology as a science and as a profession. The APS reserves the right to unilaterally cancel or reject advertising that is not deemed to be in keeping with its scientific and professional aims."