About the Journal

The journal of Educational Sciences is a quarterly refereed specialized journal published by Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University. It publishes scientific research characterized by originality, clear methodology and accurate documentation in various related fields including, fundamentals of education, educational administration, curriculum and Teaching Methods, Special Education, E-learning, among many others, in Arabic and English.

Vision

An educational journal that seeks to generate, disseminate and apply knowledge.

Mission

The journal seeks to become a scientific reference for researchers in education, through publishing refereed and outstanding educational research in line with distinguished international professional standards and maintaining scholarly communication among faculty members and researchers in educational disciplines.

Objectives

Journal of Educational Sciences has the following general  objective: Disseminating and  expanding educational knowledge so as to develop educational practice. More specifically, the journal aims to achieve the following:

  1. Developing educational disciplines and theirapplications, and enriching the Arab educational library through the publication of theoretical and applied research in various educational disciplines.
  2. Allowing thinkers and researchers in educational disciplines to publish their academic research works.
  3. Developing educational disciplines by publishing distinguished research works that address current local and Arab issues.
  4. Promoting new trends of research in educational disciplines.
  5. Exchanging scholarly works regionally and internationally.

Criteria of Publishing

The Journal publishes academic research and studies in educational disciplines according to the following regulations:

  1. Acceptance Criteria:

1.Originality, innovation, academic rigor, research methodology and logical orientation.

  1. Complying with the established research approaches, tools and methodologies in the respective disciplines.
  2. Accurate documentation.
  3. Language accuracy.
  4. Previously published submissions are not accepted.

6.Submissions must not be extracted from a paper, a thesis/dissertation, or a book by the author or anyone else.

  1. Submission Guidelines:
  2. The researcher should write a letter showing his interest to publish the work, coupled with a short CV and a confirmation that the researcher owns the intellectual property of the work entirely and that he will not publish the work before obtaining a written agreement from the editorial board.  
  3. Submissions must not exceed 35 pages (Size A4).
  4. Arabic submissions are typed in Traditional Arabic, 16-font size for the main text, and for English submissions Times New Roman, 12-font size, with single line spacing.
  5. The article must not be published or considered for publication by any other publisher.
  6. A hard copy and soft copy must be submitted with an attached abstract in Arabic and English that does not exceed 200 words in size or one page in length.
  7. Key Words must be listed below the abstract.

III. Documentation:

  1. Documentation and citation should follow the style of the American Psychological Association (APA).
  2. Sources and references must be listed at the end.
  3. Clear tables, pictures and graphs that are related to the research are included in appendices.

4- For in-text citations surnames only are used followed by the date of publication and page number between brackets. References must be arranged alphabetically by the last name of the author followed by his/her first name, the date of publication, title of the article, place of publication and publisher.

IV.In-text foreign names of authors are transliterated in Arabic  script followed by  Latin characters between brackets. Full names are used for the first time the name is cited in the paper.  

  1. Submitted research papers for publication in the journal are refereed by two reviewers, at least.

VI.The  corrected research paper should be returned on a CD or via an e-mail to the journal.

VII. Rejected research paper will not be returned to authors.

VIII.Views expressed in the published research  paper represent the opinion of the author(s). They do not necessarily reflect the policy of the university. The university will not be held responsible or liable for any legal or moral consequences that might arise from the research paper.

IX.Researchersare given five copies byte journal and ten reprints of his/her research paper.