Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Bulletin of Education & Research (BER) is a pioneer peer-reviewed online journal in Pakistan that provides a forum for sharing scholarship among national and international researchers and practitioners in education. BER was initiated by the American Faculty from Indiana University and its first editor was Dr. John Hanitchak. The BER is a well-known and respected periodical that reaches an international audience of educators, researchers, and policymakers concerned with cutting-edge theories and linking them with practices. The Journal encourages practitioners and researchers to submit empirical and methodological manuscripts—Quantitative, Qualitative, or mixed methods—in the field of education.  The journal is published thrice a year: April, August, and December. Each submission goes through a rigorous process of peer review done by one national and two international reviewers as guidelines by the Higher Education Commission, Pakistan. In BER, we publish scholarly theoretical and conceptual articles and original research that contribute to understanding issues and problems concerning all aspects of education. The areas/research interest groups include but not limited to:

  • Classroom / teacher/ head teacher/ program effectiveness
  • Community engagement in education
  • Curriculum studies derived from empirical, philosophical, sociological, or policy-related investigations.
  • Early childhood / elementary/ secondary /higher education and related policies
  • Education policy and practice
  • Educational administration, policy, and leadership
  • Educational Assessment, measurement, and evaluation
  • Educational change/innovation
  • Educational law
  • Educational Finance and policy
  • Institutional effectiveness
  • Instructional technology
  • Instrument development related to the constructs in education and related fields
  • Organizational Behavior in education
  • Practice teaching with classroom observation, monitoring, peer coaching etc.
  • Psychological research pertaining to education across all educational levels
  • School improvement and effectiveness
  • Science teaching and learning
  • Second language research
  • Stem Education
  • Teacher evaluation, effectiveness, and professional development.
  • Teachers’ and teacher educators’ beliefs, thoughts, conceptions, practical theories

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Research Papers

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Book Review

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Appropriate manuscripts are submitted to blind peer review. Editorial revisions made by the BER staff may be required to produce a more concise, readable article. Manuscripts are acknowledged within a week upon receipt the paper with submission fee. The blind review of the paper comprises the following stages:

  1. Initial blind review by any member of the Editorial team. If it is accepted, it is sent to the local reviewer. If accepted with minor changes, it is sent to the author/s for incorporating minor changes prior to sending for the local blind review.
  2. Local blind review by the local evaluator of relevant discipline. If the paper is accepted, it is sent to two foreign evaluators. If accepted with minor changes, it is sent to the foreign evaluators after ensuring that the changes suggested by local reviewer were incorporated.
  3. If paper is accepted or accepted with minor changes by both foreign evaluators, it is sent to the author/s for improvement as per comments of the foreign evaluators.
  4. Upon satisfaction of all changes are incorporated by the author/s, it undergoes a blind review by the Language Editor to make it error-free from language perspective.
  5. The Chief Editor or Managing Editor finally reviews the manuscript from context of format perspective of BER to get it ready for uploading on PU website/publication.

The whole review process usually takes three months but sometime it may take more time, depending upon the reviews received by the reviewers. Following structured comments from reviewers, the decisions are conveyed to the authors together with feedback about the paper.

 

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.

 

Bulletin of Education and Research



ISSN: 0555-7747