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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The paper presents original research, has not been previously published, and is not under consideration elsewhere. Any use of text, figures, data, or results from other sources is properly cited to avoid plagiarism.
  • The manuscript adheres to the journal’s structure, formatting, and style guidelines, as outlined in the Guidelines for authors.
  • The corresponding author and all co-authors have provided valid institutional (corporate or academic) email addresses on the submission page.
    (Submissions without institutional emails may be returned for clarification.)
  • Any use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools (such as ChatGPT, Grammarly, or other AI-based software) in the preparation of the manuscript must be clearly disclosed in the cover letter to the editor.
    (The disclosure should specify the tool used and the purpose, e.g., language editing, idea generation, data analysis assistance, etc.)
  • The submission does not contain confidential, proprietary, or classified information and is suitable for publication under an open-access CC BY license.
  • The copyright for the work has not been transferred previously and will remain with the authors. There are no conflicts regarding authorship or contribution between co-authors (if applicable).

  • The submission does not infringe upon the intellectual property rights of third parties.

Author Guidelines

Dear Authors,

Due to the high volume of submissions, the initial review process may take up to 12 weeks. We fully understand how important timely feedback is for authors. However, to maintain the quality and integrity of our publication, every manuscript undergoes a thorough initial review by members of the journal’s editorial team and is discussed at our editorial meetings.

Please note that all our editorial board members are university academic staff who generously volunteer their time and expertise alongside their primary academic duties. We kindly ask for your patience and understanding regarding the review timelines.

Thank you for your cooperation and continued interest in Advanced Education.

To submit a manuscript, the corresponding author must register on the journal’s website at http://ae.fl.kpi.ua/ via the Open Journal Systems platform and complete the five-step submission process. During registration, it is necessary to fill in all mandatory fields marked with an asterisk (*), including the institutional email address of each author, ORCID iD, affiliation, department, and academic rank.

In the Comments for the Editor section, authors may include a cover letter. To help speed up the review process, authors are also encouraged to suggest potential reviewers by providing their full details, including affiliation, email address, Researcher ID, Scopus Author ID, or ORCID ID. The suggested reviewers must not be affiliated with the same institution or research group as the author(s) and must not have co-authored publications with them. Additionally, reviewers should have at least three publications in journals indexed in Web of Science or Scopus.

Manuscripts must be of a quality and relevance that the Editorial Board considers of interest to an international audience.

Please note that the Editorial Staff will not consider submissions that

  • fall outside the Focus and Scope of Advanced Education;

  • do not comply with the Author Guidelines;

  • fail to contribute new knowledge to the field;

  • are poorly written and contain significant grammatical, stylistic, or formatting errors;

  • violate principles of publication ethics, including but not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, data fabrication or falsification, duplicate submission, or redundant publication.

Empirical research papers are given preference. Authors wishing to submit a theoretical paper, literature review, or book review are requested to contact the Editorial Office in advance to discuss the proposed topic, structure, and length of the submission.

Formatting:

Use the template for paper formatting.

The word limit for submissions is 9,000 words. The possibility of publishing materials exceeding this limit may be considered upon consultation with the editor.

Tables and figures should not be overused.

Special fonts, symbols and illustrations should be attached in separate files.

Footnotes and endnotes are not allowed.

Article structure (empirical paper)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

Title

The title is maximum 12 words

Abstract

The abstract should be 200-250 words in length. The structure of the abstract must contain: Purpose. State the problem of the study and explain its purpose. Method. In brief specify research model/design (qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods), research sample/participants, research instruments and procedure, data analysis. Findings. Outline the main results. Implications for research and practice. Show how the results can be implied in practice and what we have learned to draw implications for the future research.

Keywords

5-7 keywords

Introduction

In the first paragraph please do not cite any work. An opening paragraph should include these items: a statement of the topic/problem; a general statement what the literature has found; a statement about what the literature is missing.

Literature review

Following the introductory paragraph is a series of paragraphs that traditionally function as a literature review which identifies the seminal historical contributions, outlines the state of knowledge, and justifies the novelty of the article’s contribution The literature review should be based on refereed journal articles to the extent possible. Conference proceedings can be referenced where they never resulted in journal publications; web sites can be referenced where they present unique, multi-media oriented content. Keep in mind that non-refereed material does not bolster an argument.

The literature review should lead directly into the last section of the introduction – your study overview. Your short overview should provide your hypotheses and briefly describe your method. The study overview functions as a transition to your methods section.

Aim and hypothesis

A hypothesis is a statement that introduces a research question and proposes an expected result.

An aim includes the main tasks or questions that must be solved in the study.

Method

Research Model/Design (qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods).

Sample/Participants (quantity of students or learners in the groups, quantity of teachers; institutions in which the research was taken place).

Instruments and Procedure include questionnaires, tests, texts. Also the steps of research realizing must be described.

Data Analysis (stages of data analysis; techniques of mathematical statistics that are used to process data).

Ethical issues

Mention if the research was previously approved by an ethics committee, or if the participants gave their informed consent for participating in the study (were informed of the withdrawing possibility, with no other consequences on their status etc.)

Results

The results should present the findings and explain findings. Inserting tables is not enough. Comment on the tables. Present both quantitative and qualitative data in the section (but do not cite any references).

We recommend following Bem’s (2006) instructions for presenting findings: remind readers of the conceptual hypotheses or questions you are asking; remind readers of behaviors measured or operations performed; provide the answer/result in plain English; provide the statistic that supports your plain English answer; elaborate or qualify the overall conclusion if necessary

Discussion

Introduction sentence.

Statement of the problem.

Review of the Methodology.

Summary of the main results.

Reference to previous research.

Discussion of the results.

Recommendations for educators.

Implications for research and practice.

Suggestions for further research.

Limitations

The study may include such examples of possible

methodological limitations:  small sample size, lack of available and /or reliable data, lack of prior research studies on the topic; measure used to collect the data etc.;

limitations of the researcher: access, longitudinal effects, cultural and other type of bias, fluency in a language.

Conclusions

State your conclusions clearly and concisely. Explain why your results might be important to the reader. Provide a synthesis of key points (not just a summary of main topics covered). Make sure that conclusions match the objectives of research. Prove the reader, and the scientific community that your results are important and valuable. Give suggestions for further research.

 

Acknowledgements (not obligatory paragraph)

Identify grants or other financial support (and the source, if appropriate) for your study. Next, acknowledge colleagues who assisted in conducting the study or critiquing the manuscript. In this paragraph, also explain any special agreements concerning authorship, such as if authors contributed equally to the study. End this paragraph with thanks for personal assistance, such as in manuscript preparation.

References

Use APA style.

 


List of references

The reference list should be organised in an alphabetical order.

You should cite not less than 25 sources in empirical papers and 50 in theoretical papers / literature reviews

References should be formatted according to APA standard (http://www.apastyle.org/).

APA standard online converter: http://reffor.us/ or http://www.citationmachine.net/

Authors should consider the credibility of sources they use! If it is not possible to define the author and/or the year of publication, it is better to refuse citing such source as it is not reliable.

Self-citation should be used only if appropriate and not exceed 20-%

Most of the items in the list should be fresh sources of the last 5 years (preferably, articles in reputable journals indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus). The geography should cover at least three regions; most of the sources should be in English.

We do not recommend citing textbooks, guides, tutorials if the analysis of didactic materials was not the objective of research.

It is necessary to minimise the links to conference abstracts and other materials that were not peer-reviewed before publication.

We recommend replacing dissertations by articles in reputable journals of the same author.

Make sure that you use journal title abbreviations correctly.

Be sure to specify the DOIs of all cited sources. Check sources at crossref.org

Sample references in APA

Book

 

King, M. (2000). Wrestling with the angel: A life of Janet Frame. Auckland, New Zealand: Viking.

Krause, K.-L., Bochner, S., & Duchesne, S. (2006). Educational psychology for learning and teaching (2nd ed.). South Melbourne, Vic., Australia: Thomson

Friedman, H. S. (Ed.). (1998). Encyclopedia of mental health. San Diego, CA: AcademicPress

Book chapter

 

Helber, L. E. (1995). Redeveloping mature resorts for new markets. In M. V. Conlin & T. Baum (Eds.), Island tourism: Management principles and practice (pp. 105-113). Chichester, England: Wiley.

Journal article

 

Brownlie, D. (2007). Toward effective poster presentations: An annotated bibliography. European Journal of Marketing, 41, 1245-1283. https://doi.org/10.1108/03090560710821161

If no DOI

Thomas, K., & Bosch, B. (2005). An exploration of the impact of chronic fatigue syndrome. E-Journal of Applied Psychology: Clinical Section, 1(1), 23-40. Retrieved 16 December 2018 from http://ojs.lib.swin.edu.au/index.php/ejap/article/download/4/13

Conference proceedings

 

Armstrong, D. B., Fogarty, G. J., & Dingsdag, D. (2007). Scales measuring characteristics of small business information systems. In W-G. Tan (Ed.), Proceedings of Research, Relevance and Rigour: Coming of age: 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (pp. 163-171). Toowoomba, Australia: University of Southern Queensland.

Dissertations

 

Hos, J. (2005). Mechanochemically synthesized nanomaterials for intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cell membranes. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia.

Note!

Cyrillic titles of articles and books are transliterated in Latin and translated into English.

Zhurba, K. (2004). Vykhovannja dukhovnoji kuljtury u pidlitkiv [Educating spiritual culture in adolescents]. Kyiv, Ukraine: TOV “Infodruk”.

In Latin Titles (not English), the translation should be given in brackets. Journal names are not translated.

Mozart, W. A., &Johannes, S. B. (2009). Erfahrungen der Kursteilnehmerkrankenschwestern [Experiences of the student nurse]. Krankenpflegejournal, 10, 100-120.

In-text citations in APA

It is a common knowledge to provide in-text citation in the Introduction and Discussion sections. If you are directly quoting from a work, you will need to include the author, year of publication, and the page number for the reference (preceded by “p.”). Introduce the quotation with a signal phrase that includes the author's last name followed by the date of publication in parentheses. For example: (1) According to Jones (2005), “Students often had difficulty using Gerunds and Infinitives, especially when it was their first time” (p. 156). (2) Jones (2005) found “students often had difficulty using Gerunds and Infinitives” (p. 156); what implications does this have for teachers?

If the author is not named in a signal phrase, place the author’s last name, the year of publication, and the page number in parentheses after the quotation.

She stated, “Students often had difficulty using Gerunds and Infinitives” (Jones, 2005, p. 156), but she did not offer an explanation as to why.

If you cite a work of two to five authors (use ‘&’ within parentheses; use ‘and’ outside parentheses): (1) Becker and Seligman's (1996) findings contradicted this result. This result was later contradicted (Becker & Seligman, 1996). (2) Medvec, Madey, and Gilovich (1995) examined the influence of “what might have been” thoughts on satisfaction among a group of Olympic medalists.

In case of six or more authors, cite only the last name of the first author, followed by “et al.” and the year of publication: Barakat et al. (1995) attempted to . . . Recent research (Barakat et al., 1995) has found that . . .

Language quality

All submitted articles must be written in British or American English, not a mix. Authors whose native language is not English are strongly advised to ensure the grammatical correctness of their papers prior to submission.

We do not recommend using computer-assisted translation software. Your manuscript should not be word-by-word translation from a native language to English. We suggest applying to a native English speaker to have your manuscript proof-read and edited before submitting it to our journal.

Remember that all terms in the manuscript should be used in English-language scientific literature. The editors may ask to provide links to the sources where the specific terminology is used.

Your paper should be organised in a manner that moves from general to specific information. A good paragraph should contain at least the following four elements: transition, topic sentence, specific evidence and analysis, and a brief concluding sentence. A transition sentence acts as a transition from one idea to the next. A topic sentence tells the reader what you will be discussing in the paragraph. Specific evidence and analysis support your claims that provide a deeper level of detail than your topic sentence. A concluding sentence tells the reader how and why this information supports the paper’s thesis.

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