Dear Authors, Editors and Reviewers
The “Ethics Committee Approval” is requested for the manuscripts regarding
the changes made for the year 2020 within the scope of TR INDEX Evaluation
Criteria. All articles uploaded as of 21 February 2020 must upload the Ethics
Committee Approval/Permission Document. In this context, for studies that
require Ethics Committee permission, uploaded after 21 February, 2020,
information about the permission (name of the board, date and number) should be
included in the method section and on the first/last page of the manuscript.
Within this context, any manuscript submitted to IJPES as a possible
publication by February 21, 2020 onwards;
1.
“Ethics Committee Approval” is
required in all studies conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches
that require data collection from participants using survey, interview, focus
group study, observation, experiment, and interview techniques.
2.
Independent researchers can
obtain an "Ethics Committee Approval Document" by applying to the
ethics committees of the Higher Education institutions in their province before
the data collection process of their studies.
3. For the studies that do not
require ethics committee approval, researchers should submit the 'Ethics Committee Approval is not Required'
document to be obtained from the Ethics Committee of their institution.
4. Any manuscript produced from
the thesis, project, etc. it is sufficient to submit the "Ethics Committee
Approval Document" previously received.
5. The permission obtained from
the institutions where the research was conducted (i.e. Ministry of National
Education, Local Education Authorities, Education Faculties) does not replace "Ethics Committee
Approval".