CALL FOR PAPER: Volume 4 (2025)

2024-12-29
JoCATiA is interested in research highlighting various Computer Based Test (adaptive) application domains that cut across the social sciences research. Topics to be discussed in this journal include but are not limited to the following:
  • Item banking for CAT;
  • Item selection algorithms for CAT;
  • Security algorithms for CAT;
  • Administrative technology of adaptive testing;
  • Multistage designs for CAT;
  • Examinee reactions to CAT;
  • Differential Item Functioning in CAT;
  • Validity studies for CAT;
  • Item Response Theory-based psychometrics models for CAT; and
  • Other test theories such as classical test theory (CCT) and generalizability theory (GT) and applications.

Submission

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their original empirical research articles 5,000–7,000 words in length. All submitted articles will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis by no fewer than 3 members of the journal’s Editorial Review Board. A final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers and at the sole discretion of the Editor-in-Chief. All manuscripts must be submitted through the online submission manager: https://jocatia.acata.org/index.php/jocatia/about/submissions

Submission Requirements

  1. The submission has neither been previously published nor submitted before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format. 
  3. To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review process for submission to this journal, authors and reviewers must ensure that information indicating their identities and affiliations are removed from the document. Information regarding the author/s and his/her affiliation should be submitted in a separate page.
  4. Submission MUST include a similarity report (i.e Turnitin or CrossRef) with 15% index. 
  5. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  6. The text is single-spaced; uses Times New Roman 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end. The length of the manuscript should be between 10 to 15 pages.
  7. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements of APA conventions.
  8. Notes should be used as sparingly as possible and should be in the form of endnotes rather than footnotes.
  9. Each article should be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 150 words.
  10. Final submission for publication should follow this guide

Author's Guidelines can be accessed HERE

Article-processing charges (APC) and submission charge

This edition would have an Article Processing Charge (APC) of $70. (There will be a concession for subscribed members of the Association for Computer Adaptive Testing in Africa).

JoCATiA Submission template can be downloaded using the links below: