Focus and Scope

International Journal of Curriculum Development, Teaching and Learning Innovation is a peer-reviewed journal, published by TRIGIN Institute. It is devoted to publishing manuscripts in curriculum and instruction, learning and teaching, and related disciplines at global and local levels. The journal is published 3 times a year (March, July, November), in both online and printed versions.

Areas include but not limited to:

1. Innovation education: Educational Innovation, Educational Psychology, Primary and Secondary Education, Vocational Education, Curriculum theory, Curriculum Development, Instructional Strategies, Learning Processes, Program innovation,Policy development, Assessment in education.
2. Education in Teaching and Learning: Models of Learning, Curriculum, Learning Innovation, Vocational Education, Professional ethics.
3. Educational technology: Learning technology, Media Education, Virtual Education, Educational Software, Digital Technology in Education, Multimedia Learning, E-Learning.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

International Journal of Curriculum Development, Teaching and Learning Innovation adopts double blind review process which is closely monitored by the editors. Before submitting a submission to the review process, editors perform editorial review in order to evaluate both the quality of the submission and the sort of submission it is. Any submitted manuscripts that do not adhere to the established scientific criteria will not be taken into consideration for the reviewing process. It is anticipated of authors that they will pay attention to the directions for authors and also mention the category in which they are publishing their work if the piece is not a Review. The editors will also assess the readability of the papers as well as the usage of grammar, and they may request that the papers be resubmitted if they perform poorly in either of these areas.

The editors ask the referees for their opinion on the scientific merit of the manuscript, as well as its potential appeal to a wide audience of readers interested in scientometrics. As soon as the manuscript has been forwarded to the referees, the editors will get in touch with them and remind them at regular intervals of the deadline. When all of the evaluations have been completed inside the company, the editor in charge of the manuscript will most likely come to a conclusion within the next day or two. The editor will then convey the decision to the author with whom they have been corresponding. Reviewers dedicate their valuable time with the conviction that they are making significant contributions to the methodological framework of the scientific enterprise.

Authors are allowed to disagree with the comments made by reviewers, provided that they do so in a logical manner that is supported by an explanation that will be assessed by the Editor and may be referred back to the same referee again. However, the publication will be canceled if abusive comments are made in response to reviewer comments.

After the process of having the article reviewed by referees has been finished and before the final decision is made regarding whether or not to recommend the manuscript for publication in the journal, editorial evaluation is also performed.

All efforts are made to complete the entire process within a maximum of two months from submission with the first decision on average (Pre-Evaluation) made within 7 days to inform the status of their article.

The entire review process of the articles submitted to International Journal of Curriculum Development, Teaching and Learning Innovation are done online and digitally. When submitting their work, authors are required to make use of an online submission system. They should only send an email to the editor if they are unable to fulfill the previous requirement.

Submission & Peer Review Process (Key Steps)

• Author submits all required materials, including copyright form, and separate cover letter.
• The submitted article is first checked by the editor(s) in terms of whether it is within the broad scope of the journal and has sufficient merit. Editor(s) also pay attention to the readability, grammar and usage before considering for formally initiating the review process. The author will be informed quickly if their paper is rejected at this stage. Also there will be technical rejection if authors give their names and affiliations in the main manuscript, the tables and figures as indicated in the text is missing or have not followed instructions to authors.(7 Day)
• After initial approval by the editor, Completed submission is sent out to two or three reviewers.
• Reviewers review the article and send it back to the editorial office for processing.
• After initial review, Editor-in-Chief releases reviews to authors.
• Authors are asked to respond to reviewers and make necessary corrections.
• Article is sent out for re-review.
• Editor-in-Chief may accept, reject, accept with minor alterations, or sent out for third review.
• If accepted, author must submit final version. Version will be added to "in-press" queue with publisher.
• Prior to publication, publisher will sent galleys to authors. No edits may be made after galleys are approved.

Publication Frequency

This journal is published 3 times a year (March, July, November)

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Section A: Publication and authorship

• All submitted papers are subject to strict peer-review process by at least two international reviewers that are experts in the area of the particular paper.
• Review process are double blind peer review.
• The factors that are taken into account in review are relevance, soundness, significance, originality, readability and language.
• The possible decisions include acceptance, acceptance with revisions, or rejection.
• If authors are encouraged to revise and resubmit a submission, there is no guarantee that the revised submission will be accepted.
• Rejected articles will not be re-reviewed.
• The paper acceptance is constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism.
• No research can be included in more than one publication.

Section B: Authors’ responsibilities

• Authors must certify that their manuscripts are their original work.
• Authors must certify that the manuscript has not previously been published elsewhere.
• Authors must certify that the manuscript is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere.
• Authors must participate in the peer review process.
• Authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.
• All Authors mentioned in the paper must have significantly contributed to the research.
• Authors must state that all data in the paper are real and authentic.
• Authors must notify the Editors of any conflicts of interest.
• Authors must identify all sources used in the creation of their manuscript.
• Authors must report any errors they discover in their published paper to the Editors.

Section C: Reviewers’ responsibilities

• Reviewers should keep all information regarding papers confidential and treat them as privileged information.
• Reviews should be conducted objectively, with no personal criticism of the author
• Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments
• Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.
• Reviewers should also call to the Editor in Chief’s attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
• Reviewers should not review manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Section D: Editors’ responsibilities

• Editors have complete responsibility and authority to reject/accept an article.
• Editors are responsible for the contents and overall quality of the publication.
• Editors should always consider the needs of the authors and the readers when attempting to improve the publication.
• Editors should guarantee the quality of the papers and the integrity of the academic record.
• Editors should publish errata pages or make corrections when needed.
• Editors should have a clear picture of a research’s funding sources.
• Editors should base their decisions solely one the papers’ importance, originality, clarity and relevance to publication’s scope.
• Editors should not reverse their decisions nor overturn the ones of previous editors without serious reason.
• Editors should preserve the anonymity of reviewers.
• Editors should ensure that all research material they publish conforms to internationally accepted ethical guidelines.
• Editors should only accept a paper when reasonably certain.
• Editors should act if they suspect misconduct, whether a paper is published or unpublished, and make all reasonable attempts to persist in obtaining a resolution to the problem.
• Editors should not reject papers based on suspicions, they should have proof of misconduct.
• Editors should not allow any conflicts of interest between staff, authors, reviewers and board members.

Policy of Screening for Plagiarism

Papers submitted to International Journal of Curriculum Development, Teaching and Learning Innovation will be screened for plagiarism using Tunitin plagiarism detection tools. International Journal of Curriculum Development, Teaching and Learning Innovation will immediately reject papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

One of the members of the editing team will use a similarity/plagiarism tool to look for similarities between two papers before sending them on to the reviewers. It is required that the level of similarity between any two papers that are submitted to the International Journal of Curriculum Development, Teaching and Learning Innovation be less than 20%.

Plagiarism occurs when someone presents the ideas or words of another as their own without their permission, credit, or acknowledgement, or when they fail to properly cite the sources that they used. Plagiarism can be committed in a variety of ways, including the direct copying of the work of another person or the paraphrase of that work. In order to make an accurate determination as to whether or not an author has plagiarized their work, the following scenarios are highlighted here:

• It is possible for one author to actually replicate the work of another author by duplicating it word for word, in its entirety or in part, without the consent of the original author or acknowledging or attributing the original source. Comparing the original source to the manuscript or other work that is suspected of containing plagiarized material is one way to spot instances of this unethical conduct.
• When one author reproduces a significant portion of the work of another author without permission, acknowledgement, or citation, this practice is known as substantial copying. In the area of intellectual property law, the term "substantial," which can be understood both in terms of quality and quantity, is frequently employed. The term "quality" refers to the proportional significance of the copied text in relation to the overall value of the work.
• The process of extracting concepts, words, or phrases from one source and reassembling them into new sentences within another source is known as paraphrasing. When the author does not correctly cite the original work or does not acknowledge the creator of the original work, this practice is considered unethical. This type of plagiarism is the most difficult to detect because of the way it is written.

References management

Every article accepted by International Journal of Curriculum Development, Teaching and Learning Innovation use references manajement softwere. eg Mendeley or zotero with a APA style

Correction and Retraction Policies

The papers published in the International Journal of Curriculum Development, Teaching and Learning Innovation will be considered to retract in the publication if :

1. They have clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct (e.g. data fabrication) or honest error (e.g. miscalculation or experimental error)
2. the findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper crossreferencing, permission or justification (i.e. cases of redundant publication)
3. it constitutes plagiarism
4. it reports unethical research

The mechanism of retraction follows the Retraction Guidelines of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) which can be accessed at https://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf.

Plagiarism Policy

International Journal of Curriculum Development, Teaching and Learning Innovation Editorial board recognizes that plagiarism is not acceptable and therefore establishes the following policy stating specific actions (penalties) when plagiarism is identified in an article that is submitted for publication International Journal of Curriculum Development, Teaching and Learning Innovation.

Definition:

Plagiarism involves the "use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work."

Policy:

Papers must be completely unique, never before published, and not currently under consideration for publication anywhere else. The content that has been taken verbatim from another source needs to be clearly indicated as being different from the present original text by (1) indentation, (2) the use of quote marks, and (3) identification of the source.

To reproduce any graphic material or any text in an amount that exceeds the standards for fair use (which are defined here as more than two or three sentences or the equivalent thereof) from another source, permission from the copyright holder and, if possible, the original author(s), as well as identification of the source (for example, a previous publication), are required. Fair use is defined here as the amount of text that is equivalent to more than two or three sentences.

In the event that plagiarism is discovered, the Chief Editor who was responsible for the review of this paper and you will come to an agreement on appropriate actions to take, which will be proportional to the level of plagiarism found in the paper and will be in accordance with the following guidelines:

Level of Plagiarism

Minor: A short section of another article is plagiarized without any significant data or idea taken from the other paper.

Action: A warning is given to the authors and a request to change the text and properly cite the original article is made

Intermediate: A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized without proper citation to the original paper

Action: The submitted article is rejected and the authors are forbidden to submit further articles for one year

Severe: A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized that involves reproducing original results or ideas presented in another publication

Action: The paper is rejected and the authors are forbidden to submit further articles for five years.

It is understood that all authors are responsible for the content of their submitted paper as they all sign the International Journal of Curriculum Development, Teaching and Learning Innovation Copyright Transfer Form. If a penalty is imposed for plagiarism, all authors will be subject to the same penalty.

If a second case of plagiarism by the same author(s) is identified, a decision on the measures to be enforced will be made by the Editorial board (Editor-in-Chief, and Editorial members) with the Chair of the Editor in Chief. The author(s) might be forbidden to submit further articles forever.

In accordance with this policy, any content that has been reproduced from another publication written by the same author will not be accepted (s). In the event that an author makes use of text or figures that have been presented in a previous publication, it is necessary to identify the relevant paragraphs or figures and provide a reference to the prior work. In the event of a paper that is more of a tutorial or review nature, it is generally acknowledged that a significant portion of the material has been published in the past.

The author needs to determine where the material that has already been published came from and then seek permission from both the author who originally wrote the piece and the publisher. If an author submits a manuscript to International Journal of Curriculum Development, Teaching and Learning Innovation that has significant overlap with a manuscript that is being submitted to another journal simultaneously, and if this overlap is discovered during the review process or after the publications of both papers, the editor of the other journal is notified, and the case is treated as a severe instance of plagiarism case. Substantial overlap refers to the employment of figures and text that are either completely identical to one another or only slightly modified from one another for at least half of the document. The case will be handled as an instance of intermediate plagiarism if the student plagiarized a portion of their own work that was less than one half of the paper but greater than one tenth of the paper. If the self-plagiarism only appears in the techniques section, then the case is judged to have just small instances of plagiarism.

In the event that an author uses some of his previously published material to explain the presentation of new results, the previously published material is required to be identified, and the differences between the present publication and the previous publication are required to be stated. The owner of the copyright must provide permission before the work can be republished. In the case of a manuscript that was initially published in conference proceedings and is then submitted for publication in International Journal of Curriculum Development, Teaching and Learning Innovation either in identical or in expanded form, the authors are required to identify the name of the conference proceedings and the date of the publication and obtain permission to republish from the copyright holder. This applies whether the manuscript is submitted in its original form or in a form that has been expanded. It is possible that the editor will not choose to accept this manuscript for publication.

Yet, it is acceptable for an author to incorporate content from an unpublished presentation, such as visual presentations, in a subsequent journal publication. In the event that a publication is being submitted that was initially published in a different language, the authors are required to identify the title, date, and journal of the original publication, and they are also required to get the copyright for the publication. It's possible that the editor will agree to publish the translated version of the work so that it can reach a wider readership. In order to provide a better perspective of a series of papers that were published in one issue of the International Journal of Curriculum Development, Teaching and Learning Innovation, the editor may choose to select a particular paper that had already been published (for example, a "historic" paper) for republication. It is required that this republication be properly labeled as such, that the date and journal of the original publishing be given, and that permission be secured from the author(s) and the publisher.

The International Journal of Curriculum Development, Teaching and Learning Innovation layout editor for the Journal is the one who is responsible for maintaining the list of authors who are subjected to penalties and is the one who will verify to make sure that no authors of a submitted paper are on this list. In the event that a previously banned author is discovered, the layout editor will notify the Editor-in-Chief, who will then take the necessary actions. A copy of this policy will be supplied to the authors along with the confirmation email upon first receipt of their original manuscript, and it will also be placed on the website alongside the guidelines for submitting a manuscript at the same time. On the form for transferring copyrights, there should be a sentence indicating that the author (or authors) have been made aware of the Plagiarism Policy.

Withdrawal of Manuscripts

Author is not allowed to withdraw submitted manuscripts, because the withdrawal is waste of valuable resources that editors and referees spent a great deal of time processing submitted manuscript, and works invested by the publisher.

If author still requests withdrawal of his/her manuscript when the manuscript is still in the peer-reviewing process, author will be punished with paying $500.00 per manuscript, as withdrawal penalty to the publisher. However, it is unethical to withdraw a submitted manuscript from one journal if accepted by another journal.

The withdrawal of manuscript after the manuscript is accepted for publication, author will be punished by paying US$500.00 per manuscript. Withdrawal of manuscript is only allowed after withdrawal penalty has been fully paid to the Publisher. If author don't agree to pay the penalty, the author and his/her affiliation will be blacklisted for publication in this journal. Even, his/her previously published articles will be removed from our online system.

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