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Refereeing Process
Completed papers or symposia submitted to the 4th International Catholic Educational Leadership Conference for optional full paper refereeing are forwarded to three members of the School of Educational Leadership and other academics in the relevant field of study. The Director of the Flagship’s office retains a list of suitable referees on file. All refereeing is independent with no referee informed as to the names of the author/s or other referees.
Potential referees receive:
- an e-mail message asking them to do the refereeing task;
- an attached file containing the abstract of the paper or symposium for reviewing (with author identification removed).
It is requested that invited referees respond immediately to the e-mail message indicating whether they can do the task within 15 working days; (if not, the paper is sent to another referee).
Referees who accept the refereeing task will receive:
- an e-mail with the attached full text of the paper or symposium and
- a referee response form
Referees are asked to:
- open and review the attached full text of the paper or symposium
- fill in and write their comments on the attached referee’s response form
- e-mail the response form back to the conference Convener no later than 15 working days from receipt of the full text of the paper or symposia
- ensure that their comments are contained to the spaces provided in the Response Sheet which is e-mailed to the author.
Referees of full papers or symposia will not be made known to the authors.
The Flagship Office holds a copy in two places and an elaborate back-up system of all abstracts and full text of all papers or symposia.
The Guidelines provided by DEST (2003) for research publications are as follows:
- scholarly activity, as evidenced by discussion of the relevant literature, an awareness of the history and antecedents of the work described, and a format which allows a reader to trace sources of the work through citations, footnotes, etc;
- originality, that is, it is not a compilation of existing works;
- veracity/validity through peer validation processes or by satisfying the commercial publisher or gallery processes;
- increasing the stock of knowledge;
- being in a form that enables dissemination of knowledge.
