1-ETHICAL PRINCIPLES
The acronym AUJFES represents Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences. AUJFES is a peer-reviewed journal published by Ankara University Faculty of Educational Sciences (AUFES). The contents of the published articles do not necessarily represent the views of AUFES, AUJFES, and the editorial board of the journal. AUJFES adopts the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The guidelines prepared in accordance with these principles are presented below:

Actions Contrary to Scientific Research and Publication Ethics
• Plagiarism: Representing the original ideas, methods, data or works of others as one's own work in whole or in part without citation in accordance with scientific rules,
• Forgery: Using non-existent or falsified data in scientific research,
• Distortion: Falsifying research records or data obtained, falsifying devices or materials that were not used in the research, falsifying or shaping the results of the research in line with the interests of the persons and organizations receiving support,
• Republishing: Presenting duplicate publications as separate publications for academic appointments and promotions,
• Slicing: Inappropriately and inappropriately dividing the results of a research into parts in a way that disrupts the integrity of the research and publishing them in more than one issue and presenting these publications as separate publications in academic appointments and promotions,
• Unfair authorship: Including or excluding people who have not actively contributed, changing the author ranking in an unjustified and inappropriate manner, removing the names of active contributors from the work in subsequent editions, using one's influence to have one's name included among the authors even though one has not actively contributed,

Click here to get information about other types of ethical violations in the Directive on Scientific Research and Publication Ethics of Higher Education Institutions.

Journal Policy on Data Falsification and Data Fabrication
Each article submitted to the Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences is subject to a strict plagiarism check. Accordingly, studies with a similarity rate of more than 10% are not accepted for publication. In addition, the data set of each study is carefully reviewed by our editors who are experts in the field. If it is concluded as a result of these revisions that the statistical data of the submitted study were not obtained in accordance with the research ethics processes, the application of that study is rejected without initiating any editorial process. So, in case we identify that the author(s) of the manuscript use(s) falsified and fabricated data, then we will report this to the institution of the authors where he/she works and reject the manuscript. Editorial members of the journal and/or the reviewers reserve the right to ask author(s) to provide raw data which was used in the manuscript.

Plagiarism Action Plan
If plagiarism is detected in an article submitted or published in our journal, our journal will act in accordance with the COPE principles (Plagiarism in a submitted manuscript - Plagiarism in a published article).

Ethics Committee Permission
In our journal, all studies that require ethics committee permission require approval from the relevant committee. Surveys, experiments, observations, clinical and animal studies, and research involving personal data are subject to ethics committee approval. This permission must be clearly stated in the text of the article. Studies without ethical approval are not evaluated. Scientific research on humans and animals must be conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and ARRIVE guidelines and approval must be obtained from the relevant ethics committee. Studies without ethics committee approval are not evaluated in our journal.

Research Requiring Ethics Committee Permission
In our journal, research requiring ethics committee permission includes the following studies:
• All research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that involve collecting data from participants through methods such as surveys, interviews, focus groups, observations, experiments and interview techniques,
• Studies in which humans and animals (including materials or data) are used for experimental or other scientific purposes,
• Clinical trials conducted on humans,
• Scientific research on animals,
• Retrospective studies within the framework of the Personal Data Protection Law.
In order for such studies to be included in the evaluation, the relevant ethics committee permissions must be obtained and these permissions must be clearly stated in the text of the article.

Protection of Personal Information
All personal data submitted to our journal are protected in accordance with legal regulations and ethical rules.

Protection of Intellectual Property Rights
Our journal is obliged to protect the intellectual property rights of all published articles and to defend the rights of the journal and the author(s) in possible violations.

Correction, Retraction, Expression of Concern
Editors may consider publishing a correction if minor errors are detected in the published article that do not affect the findings, interpretations and conclusions. In the case of major errors/violations that invalidate findings and conclusions, editors should consider retracting the article. COPE guidelines are taken into account regarding correction, retraction or expression of concern.

Conflicts of interest
Our journal guarantees that the publication process of manuscripts is completed in an independent and impartial manner, taking into account conflicts of interest between author(s), reviewers and other editors.

Change of Author
Only processed before the manuscript is accepted. Authors are required to carefully review the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript and provide the exact list of authors at the time of original submission.

Use of Artificial Intelligence
In studies submitted to our journal, the use of artificial intelligence is acceptable in processes that will not affect the originality of the article, such as literature review or language control. However, the use of artificial intelligence should be carried out within the framework of ethical rules and should never be used for unethical purposes such as fabricated data and manipulation.
For studies involving the use of artificial intelligence, it is mandatory to inform our journal about this situation at the article submission stage. All responsibility for the use of artificial intelligence belongs to the authors themselves.

Notification of Ethics Non-Principles Status Editor
In case of encountering an unethical situation in articles or about editors, reviewers and authors or in articles that does not comply with the ethical principles regarding in Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences (JFES), it should be reported by ebfd@ankara.edu.tr. Our journal follows the procedure set out in the COPE flowcharts regarding complaints.

2-ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF STAKEHOLDERS

Ethical Responsibilities of the Publisher
• Ankara University, the publisher of Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences, is a public-spirited and nonprofit-making public educational institution.
• Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences, since 1968, has been the school of scientific development as the first and the most rooted journal of educational sciences, and it has continued its mission within the support of Ankara University Faculty of Educational Sciences Administrative Committees.
• The members of Editorial Board are assigned for three years considering the disciplines of educational sciences. An editor is assigned as the chair of Editorial Board with two assistants and field editors. A new member is assigned for the leaver and Editorial Board can enlarge membership times. According the subject of the study, the editor can send an article to some other instructors out of Editorial Board as field editors.

The Responsibilities of Editorial Board of Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences
• Editorial Board of Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences is responsible for all processes of the articles sent to the journal. This responsibility requires deciding independently by considering public interest, not personal gains. The relationship between Publisher and the Editorial Board is based on independence policy, and all decisions of the editors are independent from the publisher and the other persons and institutions.
• Editorial Board of Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences permanently strives to develop and raise the quality of the journal.
• Editorial Board of Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences determines and performs journal policies as publication, blind review, evaluation process and ethical principles.
• Editorial Board of Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences keeps copyrights of the articles published in Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences.
• Editorial Board of Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences is responsible for keeping intellectual property rights of authors in publication processes and guarding against unethical behaviors, plagiarism and reference gangs.
• Editorial Board of Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences determines incentive policies for the authors.
• Editorial Board of Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences her keeps records of every article electronically or in written forms.

The Responsibilities of Editors, Editor Assistants and Field Editors
• Editors try to inform reviewers, authors, researchers and readers, to answer their questions clearly within the principles of clarity.
• Editors, during the publication process, consider that the articles should be original and contribute the literature, the readers and researchers.
• While editors are making decisions about the article publication, they consider originality, contribution to the field, clarity of expressions, content and validity and reliability of the articles.
• Editors take the articles without any problem to the preliminary evaluation, consider positive views of reviewers, and they do not change the decisions of the reviewers unless there is a big problem for publishing.
• Editors implement the policies of blind review and evaluation processes, keep private personal identity information of the authors, and provide impartial evaluation processes in due of time for the articles.
• Editors send the articles to field editors and reviewers considering their professional fields, and care that the articles are evaluated impartially and independently.
• Editors, in evaluation processes, consider if there are conflicts or collaborations between authors and reviewers or not.
•Editors generate a large number or reviewers, and they update it consistently.
• Editors prevent non-scientific that do not comply with academic etiquette rules.
• Editors ensure that journal publishing processes are operated in accordance with publishing policies and guidelines, inform those who are in the process of the developments on publishing policies, and prepare training programs when necessary.
• Editors communicate effectively with everyone involved in the publishing processes, and organize meetings at regular intervals.
• Editors provide protection of personal data in assessed articles; they keep personal data of authors, referees and readers.
• Editors attach importance to the protection of human and animal rights in the articles, emphasize that the clear approval of the participants of the article is documented, and rejects the articles witout the approval of the ethics committee on the participants of the article and without any permit in experimental investigations.
• Editors take precautions against misconduct. When there are complaints about the abuse of duty, they share the findings about the subject by conducting an objective investigation.
• Editors provide errors, inconsistencies, or misleading errors in articles to be corrected.
• Editors protect the intellectual property rights of the published articles, and defend the rights of the journal and the author (s) in case of violation. Editors also take the necessary precautions to ensure that the content of the published articles does not infringe the intellectual property rights of other publications; they control authenticity-similarity.
• Editors considers consistent critiques for the articles published in the journal and enables authors to answer these critiques.
• Editors considers the studies including negative conclusions also.
• Editors evaluate the complaints sent to the journal and make necessary statements.

Ethical Responsibilities of Reviewers
• The articles in Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences are evaluated by double-blind review in a process, which neither the authors know the reviewers nor the reviewers know the authors; reviewers cannot communicate the authors directly; article evaluation forms and proofreading requests are sent to the authors through the website of the journal. Reviewers must bear the ethical responsibilities in Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences as below:
• Reviewers should only accept to evaluate the articles related to the field of their specializations.
• Reviewers should make the evaluation impartially and confidentially. In accordance with this principle, the articles they review should be annihilated after the evaluation process, but they should be used after publication. Nationality, gender, religious beliefs, political beliefs and commercial concerns should not distort the impartiality of the evaluation.
• When reviewers understand that there is a conflict or collaboration, they should inform the editors and refuse to evaluate the article.
• Reviewers must evaluate articles with a constructive attitude in accordance with the academic etiquette rules; they should refrain from insulting and hostile personal comments.
• Reviewers should evaluate the articles they agree on during the evaluation.

Ethical Responsibilities of the Authors
• The authors should not send an article published in or sent to be published in another journal to Ankara University Journal of the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the same time.
• The authors should send original articles to Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences. Authors should refer to the sources they use in writing articles in the correct way in the direction of ethical principles.
• Persons who do not contribute to the articles should not be listed as authors, and it should not be proposed to change the author order of a published article and to add authors.
• Reviewers must notify the editors of the conflicts and collaborations about the article.
• In the evaluation process of the articles the authors should provide the editorial staff with information about the articles or the raw data if required.
• The authors must document the rights to use the data they use in their articles, the permission for research or the approval of the participants to whom they have searched.
• Authors should communicate with the editors to provide information, to correct the article or to withdraw it when they are aware of the error associated with the evaluation and early appearance phase or the published article in electronic form.
• The author(s) must specify that they received the ethics committee approval for the researches that require data collection by using quantitative or qualitative methods such as experiment, survey, scale, interview, observation, focus group work that require ethics committee decision; the author(s) must also specify the name of the ethics committee, the date and the number of the ethics committee decision on the first-last page and in the method section of the candidate article. In addition, the author(s) must include information on the fact that the informed consent form was received for the case reports in the articles.
• The author(s) should present proof of their ethical principles for data collection process (such as obtaining permission from others to use their documents such as scale, questionnaire, photograph etc.) in the article. It should be noted in the articles that the copyright regulations for research and publication ethics and intellectual and artistic works are complied with. If the study is conducted on human and animal subjects, it should be reported in the article that the study was carried out in accordance with international reports, guidelines, etc.
• Ethics committee approval is not required for review articles from the author(s). However, it should be stated in articles not requiring an ethics committee decision that the ethics committee decision is not required on the first-last page and in the method section of the article.

3-PUBLICATION POLICIES

General Principles
• Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences is a peer-reviewed national journal in the field of educational sciences indexed in some international indexes. Published regularly since 1968, it is the first scientific journal in the field of educational sciences. Our journal is published three issues a year, April, August and December, and the articles that are decided to be published are given DOI numbers and published with early view.
• Articles in the field of educational sciences and teacher training are published in our journal. Nine original current research articles are published in each issue. In the case of review articles, a maximum of two review articles can be published in this issue. Articles that are appropriate in terms of spelling and format are checked for plagiarism (similarity rate < 10%).
• Our journal publishes in two languages; full text Turkish and full text English. For this reason, the article is uploaded to the system as Turkish or English full text in the first submission. For articles that are not rejected in the first review, the double-blind review process continues; articles are sent to at least two referees. It is requested that the article applications comply with our spelling rules, specify ORCID numbers, and upload the Copyright Transfer Form and the ethics committee decision of the research articles to the system together with the article.
• Articles that have not been published or submitted elsewhere for publication, are original, up-to-date, and will contribute to the field should be sent to our journal.
• More than one article by one author at the same time will not be evaluated in our journal.
• Manuscripts submitted to our journal are evaluated by at least two independent reviewers within the scope of double blind review.
• Authors agree to transfer their copyrights to our journal under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license when the article is accepted for publication.
• All articles published as open access in our journal are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Non-Derivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
• Articles published in our journal are digitally archived in LOCKSS and DSpace. Articles published in our journal can be accessed free of charge at https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/auebfd/archive.

Publication Language
Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences publishes manuscripts in Turkish and English. In other words, each article to be published in a single issue should be written full text in both Turkish and English. During the article submission process at the beginning, authors submit the manuscript to the journal system in Turkish or English (only one version). Once the article is accepted, then the author is required to submit the second language version of the article.
The Editorial Board of Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences attaches importance to obeying spelling and grammar rules. Articles must be written grammatically and understandably in plain language, and they must be in keeping with the literature. It’s expected that articles are free of foreign words. In case the authors use foreign words, they must also write the Turkish meaning of these words in parenthesis.
Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences does not provide any translation services. The articles accepted for publication by the Editorial Board are read by language editors (Turkish and English). The authors can be offered some revisions by the Editorial Board, reviewers or language editors. These revisions are under the responsibility of the authors.

Special Issue Policy
Special issues can be published once a year with the decision of the Editorial Board. The publication and evaluation principles for the articles to be published in the special issue are applied as in the planned issues.

Price Policy
Article submission, evaluation and publication processes in our journal are completely free of charge. No fee is charged for articles submitted or accepted for publication. All expenses of our journal are covered by Ankara University.

The Policy for Repudiating Sponsorships and Advertisements
The publisher of Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences is Ankara University, which is a non-profit-making public establishment. One of the publishing policies of the journal is repudiating sponsorships and advertisements.