Journal Banding Survey

General Information

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE SURVEY

Research project: Assessing the quality and impact of education journals.

As you have come to this site, we assume that you are responding to an invitation offered by a professional association of which you are a member to participate in a study about education journals.

Whereas some fields of study (notably science, engineering and medicine) are well served by citation indexes, education is not. But even if it were, academic citation would be inadequate in 'practical' fields such as education, engineering and business. Although academic excellence of journal content is highly valued, in these fields research and publication are intended, ultimately, to benefit professional practice.

We are asking you to make judgments about quality and usefulness of journals in the field of Education from your perspective. As about 1000 education journals have been identified internationally, to assist you with this questionnaire we have listed them by sub-discipline areas. Sub-disciplines within Education will be recognized in the journal bandings to be developed. We intend to use the collected judgments of researchers, teachers and other practitioners to band at least a proportion of education journals available. Other journals will be noted simply as 'unbanded'.

The next page asks you for some personal and professional information, and the following three pages ask for your selections of journals according to different criteria. Finally we invite you to provide us with some feedback on this questionnaire. As you have been advised by your professional association, your responses to this questionnaire will be anonymous. No information which identifies you in any way will be accessible to the researchers unless you choose to identify yourself in some other way.

Thank you in anticipation of your assistance in this study.

The research team:

Sid Bourke, Allyson Holbrook, Greg Preston, Robert Cantwell, Jill Scevak

University of Newcastle

Contact person: Sid Bourke Sid.Bourke@newcastle.edu.au , phone 61 2 4968 6706

This project has been approved by the University's Human Research Ethics Committee, Approval No. H-281-0906.

Should you have concerns about your rights as a participant in this research, or you have a complaint about the manner in which the research is conducted, it may be given to the researcher, or, if an independent person is preferred, to the Human Research Ethics Officer, Research Office, The Chancellery, The University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan NSW 2308, telephone (02 49216333), email Human-Ethics@newcastle.edu.au.

Step 1: Information about yourself

Please provide the following information about yourself.

Question 1. What is your Gender ?

Female Male

Question 2. Country of residence:

Australia Hong Kong New Zealand Singapore United Kingdom United States Other (please specify)

Question 3. If you have particular interests within education, please select up to three areas from the list of sub-disciplines below.

Step 2: Information about your Occupation

Please provide the following information about your occupation.

Question 4. What is your Employment sector ?

Education	Non-education sector
Prior to school experience (eg. pre-school) Primary(elementary) School Secondary School Post school technical education University Other education	Please specify

Question 5. What are your major areas of responsibility in your present position? Please indicate as many as appropriate for you.

Teaching Research Management/administration Counseling Sales Other (please specify)

Question 6. About how many years of experience have you had in your current employment sector?

years

Step 3: 10 Best Journals

Question 7. Information on THE BEST 10 Journals

(a) Please identify up to 10 journals that, from your perspective and interests, have the highest academic esteem in Education. General groupings of journals are available in the drop-down boxes to assist you in making your selection. Alternatively, you may type in the names of up to 10 journals that you think have the highest academic esteem. When typing, please try to use the exact name of the journal.

Select Journal Group	Select Journal Name	OR Type Journal Name

(b) Please indicate the criteria you used to make this selection

Step 4: Journals you Publish in or Read

Question 8. Information on Journals YOU PUBLISH IN OR READ.

(a) If you publish your work in Education Journals or are a reader of journals in Education, please identify up to 10 journals that you publish in or read. General groupings of journals are available in the drop-down boxes to assist you in making your selection. Alternatively, you may type in the names of up to 10 journals that you publish in or read. When typing, please try to use the exact name of the journal.

Select Journal Group	Select Journal Name	OR Type Journal Name

(b) Did you select these journals primarily as a researcher publishing your work, or as a reader of research articles?

Researcher publishing your work Reader of research articles

(c) Please indicate the criteria you used to make this selection

Step 5: Journals that impact on Policy or Professional Practice

Question 9. Information on Journals That IMPACT ON POLICY OR PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

(a) Finally we ask you to identify up to 10 journals that you believe have the greatest impact on the policy or practice of education in your region (eg, Europe, Asia-Pacific) or country. General groupings of journals are available in the drop-down boxes to assist you in making your selection. Alternatively, you may type in the names of up to 10 journals. When typing, please try to use the exact name of the journal.

Select Journal Group	Select Journal Name	OR Type Journal Name

(b) Please indicate the criteria you used to make this selection

Step 6: Any comments

Question 10

In order or priority, please name up to three specific areas you currently read and/or research in (eg. primary science, learning theory, gender).

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Question 11

(a) Please indicate any problems you had with this on-line survey, e.g. was the allowance of 10 journals sufficient for you? Did you have any problems with the drop down lists of journals or with our use of terms such as academic esteem or impact on professional practice?

(b) If you received an invitation to complete this survey through a professional association, please type in the name of the professional association here.

Thank you for completing this questionnaire. If you wish to receive a summary of results, please provide your email address below. To preserve the confidentiality of your responses, email addresses provided will be detached from all other information provided by you.

Your email address (optional)

Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey