The articles are evaluated by double-blind review, in which identities of authors and reviewers are kept confidential. Neither the authors know the reviewers nor the reviewers know the authors in this process. Double-blind review stages are as follows:

Preliminary Review and Preliminary Evaluation Process
The editors in preliminary review evaluate the articles sent to Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences. In this step, articles that do not comply with the aims, scope and publication policies of Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences, do not comply with the language and expression rules, have errors in terms of method, are not original, and have a high similarity rate are rejected.

Similarity-Authenticity Check
The publication ethics of Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences obliges the plagiarism check to determine the similarity-authenticity of the applied article and each article that is in the publication stage. Similarity and plagiarism control is done by the journal staff with the iThenticate program, and the report is received. The authors may also be asked to correct the errors detected in the article by the Editorial Board, but the articles with a similarity rate of more than 10% are rejected and the author(s) are informed. The similarity rate report is stored.

Preliminary Evaluation
For the preliminary evaluation, appropriate articles are sent to the field editor related to the subject of the article. The articles sent to the field editor are examined in terms of titles, introduction, method, result, discussion-conclusion, implications, originality and authenticity, and the aim, scope and publishing policies of the journal. The field editor notifies the journal editor about the review result with a report. The journal editor rejects the articles that are not suitable as the result of the review report. For the articles that the field editor finds suitable for the journal, reviewers’ suggestions should also be forwarded to the journal editor with the review report.

Peer Review Process
The referee suggestions of the field editor are evaluated by the editors and the manuscript is forwarded to two referees, taking into consideration other referees when necessary. Care is taken not to appoint referees from the organization where the author(s) work, those who have conflicts and interests with the author(s), those whose field is not related to the article, thesis advisor or jury members of the thesis. No more than one article is sent to the same referee for evaluation in one issue of the journal. In order for the manuscripts submitted to our journal to be published, at least two referees must give a publishable decision. If one referee gives a positive opinion and one referee gives a negative opinion, the article is sent to a third referee.
Referee evaluation is based on the review of the article in terms of literature, originality, methodology, compliance with ethical principles, consistent presentation of the results, compliance of citations with the principles, and consistency of references and citations.
Referees are given one month for the peer review process, and this period can be extended if necessary upon the request of the referee. After evaluating the article, the referees are required to fill out the “Research Article Evaluation Form” for research articles and the “Review Article Evaluation Form” for review articles. After the referees have completed their evaluation of the article, they upload the Article Evaluation Form to the journal system. The referees should write the reasons for their decision (acceptance, correction, rejection) in detail in the relevant section of the Article Evaluation Form. The referees should also upload the manuscript with their suggestions for revisions to the journal system.
Authors should prepare an “Article Correction Report” within three weeks in line with the correction suggestions received from the referees and/or editors. In this report, the authors indicate the corrections they have made and the ones they could not make in the form of a chart with their justifications, and then upload it to the electronic submission system together with the corrected article. The revised manuscript is sent to the referees who wish to see the corrections. Reviewers or editors may request more than one correction from the authors. The author(s) are expected to make these corrections.

Evaluation Result and Editorial Board Decision
The opinions of the referees and the correction report from the authors, if any, are reviewed by the editor. As a result of this review, the editor calls the Board of Editors to a meeting to make a decision on the articles. The Board of Editors makes the final decision by discussing the articles in line with the opinions of the field editor and referees.
The page arrangement (layout) of the articles decided to be published is done by the staff of the Journal of Ankara University Faculty of Educational Sciences. Thus, it is ensured that the articles to be published are uniform and consistent with each other in terms of format.
The articles are reviewed by the language editors (Turkish, English) and corrections are requested from the authors if necessary. After the corrections are completed, the articles are checked for similarity and plagiarism for the last time, the article is reviewed once more in general and the “publishable” approval is obtained from the authors.
The articles that are deemed appropriate to be sent for peer review are finalized within six months.

Right of Objection to the Evaluation
Authors have the right to object to the decisions about their articles that the Editorial Board of the journal makes. Authors may send their objection reasons with proofs to ebfd@ankara.edu.tr by mail. The Editorial Board provides an answer to the authors about their objections after discussing the case. If the objection is justified, the Editorial Board restarts the evaluation with new reviewers.

Citation and Reference Check
According to the publication ethics of Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences, it is obligatory to give correct and complete references to the articles. This control is made first by the reviewer during the evaluation, and then by the editors according to the results of the similarity-plagiarism (iThenticate) report.
In the articles sent to Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences, citation and reference check is done as follows:
• The reference list should conform to the format in APA Edition 7.
• It is checked whether the in-text citations are given completely and correctly in the reference list. Citations in the text of each source in the reference list are corrected if necessary.
• In-text citations are checked and the missing or incorrect ones are corrected.
• The principles of citing references in Turkish for articles in Turkish and in English for articles in English are taken as the basis.

Early View and Publication of the Article
It is obligatory to give the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) number to the articles whose page layout is done in Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences, first in the "Early View" and then in the relevant issue of the electronic journal. The Digital Object Identification (DOI) is a unique number for each article published electronically, allowing that article to be identified and accessed. In order to obtain a Digital Object Identification (DOI) number, a process is initiated by the editor in the electronic page of the journal. After the article type (research-review), Digital Object Identification (DOI) number, application, acceptance and early view dates entered and “EARLY VIEW” are written diagonally on each page of the article, this article is published in electronic form in full text. Minor edits can be made, if necessary, when publishing early view articles in the journal. Early view articles are published in the volume and number determined by the Editorial Board, by removing the "EARLY VIEW" watermark.
After the electronic version of Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences is published, a limited number printed journal containing the same articles is published in the same month.