The Research Notes section provides a means for educational researchers to communicate with one another about their research-in-progress. Because AJER is so widely indexed nationally and internationally, it is effective in supporting such exchanges. The Research Notes are also a useful means for reporting on smaller research projects that have one or two findings of particular interest but do not warrant full-article treatment.
The Note should report briefly on the author's/authors' research-in-progress or recently completed research and should feature work that has not been reported elsewhere in journal publications. This current work should be situated, briefly, in the context of other pertinent scholarship, including the author's or authors' related research. The focus of the Note could be either a specific study or an overview of an ongoing line of inquiry where fuller reporting of results will not occur in print for some time. The maximum length for a Note is 1,000 words, excluding references and one or two tables or graphs. Please include a word count in your cover letter and a copy of the document preferably as an E-mail attachment. Acceptable file formats are Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format (RTF). Files may be prepared using either Macintosh or Windows machines. To encourage communication between researchers, authors of Research Notes are asked to provide contact information including a one-line biography, full mailing address, E-mail, fax, and/or telephone numbers for publication with each Note. This biography and contact information should be included in the document file submitted. No abstract is required, but in all other respects the usual AJER guidelines for manuscripts should be observed.
Submissions to Research Notes will be reviewed for readability, rationale, clarity, logic, organization, length, and adherence to all Alberta Journal of Educational Research (AJER) guidelines. Any submission that is judged to meet these criteria will be published as soon as possible. Any submission that is judged to require revisions according to the criteria outlined will not be published, and revisions will not be invited, as the Notes must be current if they are to serve the purposes identified.
To make inquiries or submissions, please contact:
Larry Prochner, Editor
Alberta Journal of Educational Research
845 Education Centre South
Faculty of Education
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T6G 2G5
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Tel: (780) 492-7941
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