The publication processes implemented in the Van Yüzüncü Yıl University Journal of Education form the basis for the development and distribution of information in an impartial and respectable manner.
Peer-reviewed studies are studies that embody and support the scientific method. At this point, it is important that all stakeholders of the process (authors, readers and researchers, publisher, referees and editors) comply with the standards for ethical principles.  Van Yüzüncü Yıl University Journal of Education is expected to bear all ethical responsibilities within the scope of publication ethics.

The author(s) are expected to answer the following questions in the context of Ethical Compliance.
If you have used unpublished tools, procedures or data that others may claim ownership of, have you obtained permission to use it?
Did you properly cite/cite published works that you have benefited from or cited in your article?
Data collection/application etc. in your work. Have you obtained the legal permissions for it?
Will you be able to answer questions from the editor about the "informed consent" of the people you collect data from or that you have made the necessary disclosures?
Have you taken adequate precautions to ensure the confidentiality of the information provided by participants, subjects, third parties, or those from whom you have obtained data, and to protect them from harm?
If there is more than one author, did all of the authors read and agree on the content?
If there is more than one author, did all authors agree on the order of author names?
If you have used copyrighted material, have you obtained permission to use these materials?

Editors' Responsibilities
Editors are responsible for every publication published in the Van Yüzüncü Yıl University Journal of Education. In the context of this responsibility, the editors;
Editors should make decisions by considering the knowledge, skills and experience expectations of all readers, researchers and practitioners. It should be careful that the published studies contribute to the reader, researcher, practitioner and scientific literature, and that they are original. In addition, editors are obliged to consider the feedback from readers, researchers and practitioners, and to provide explanatory and informative feedback.
Editors should make a positive or negative decision based on the importance, original value, validity, clarity of the narrative, and the journal's goals and objectives.
Studies that are suitable for the scope of publication should be taken to the preliminary evaluation stage unless they have serious problems.
Editors should not ignore positive referee suggestions unless there is a serious problem with the study.
The Blind Refereeing and Review Process must be published and the editors must prevent deviations from the defined processes.
Editors should publish an Author's Guide that includes in detail every subject expected of them by the authors. These guides should be updated periodically.
Authors should be informed and returned in an explanatory and informative way.
The referees should be determined in accordance with the subject of the study.
It is responsible for providing the information and guides that the referees will need during the evaluation phase.
It has to consider whether there is a conflict of interest between the authors and the referees and other editors.
In the context of blind arbitration, the identity of the referees should be kept confidential.
It should encourage the referees to evaluate the work in an impartial, scientific and objective language.
The referees should be evaluated with criteria such as timely return and performance.
Take the necessary steps to dynamically update the referee pool.
It should prevent rude and unscientific evaluations.
Take steps to ensure that the referee pool consists of a wide range.

Authors' Responsibilities
The author(s) who submit a candidate article to the journal of Van Yüzüncü Yıl University Journal of Education are expected to comply with the following ethical responsibilities:
The works submitted by the author(s) are expected to be original. If the author(s) benefit from or use other works, they are required to cite and/or cite completely and accurately.
Persons who do not contribute to the content intellectually in the creation of the work should not be specified as authors.
All the studies sent for publication should be explained, if any, situations that may constitute a conflict of interest and their relationships.
Raw data regarding their articles can be requested from the author(s) within the framework of the evaluation processes, in such a case the author(s) should be ready to present the expected data and information to the editorial board.
The author(s) must have a document showing that they have the right to use the data used, the necessary permissions for the research/analysis, or the consent of the experimental subjects.
In case the author(s) notices an error or mistake regarding his/her published, early view or evaluation stage work, he/she has the obligation to cooperate with the editor in informing, correcting or withdrawing the journal editor or publisher.

Referees' Responsibilities
Referees who are invited to be a referee by Van Yüzüncü Yıl University Journal of Education journal are expected to comply with the following ethical responsibilities:
First of all, the referees should only accept to evaluate the work related to their field of expertise.
The author(s) should not have access to their identity information. Should they reach or guess the author(s) identification information, they should terminate the review process.
Review should be done with impartiality and confidentiality.
If he thinks that he is facing a conflict of interest during the evaluation process, he should refuse to review the study and inform the journal editor.
They can use the studies they have reviewed only after the study is published. No information should be shared about a rejected study.
It should indicate related studies that are not cited.
It should make the evaluation objectively only in relation to the content of the study. Nationality, gender, religious beliefs, political beliefs and commercial concerns should not be allowed to influence the review.
Evaluation should be done in a constructive and kind language. They should not make derogatory personal comments that include slander and insult.
They should perform the work they accept to evaluate on time and with the above ethical responsibilities.
It has been prepared by considering the "COPE Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" and "COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) as open access while establishing ethical duties and responsibilities.

Ensuring the Accuracy of Scientific Information
Ethics in Reporting Research Results: The scientific method is based on the repeatability and verifiability of observations. Data may not be fabricated or altered to achieve a particular conclusion or support hypotheses, including by manipulating visual materials. Some of the data or findings cannot be ignored in order to obtain a more desirable and convincing result.
If there is an unintentional error in my writing, when the author realizes this error after the article is published, he has to announce this error to the readership. To do this, it notifies the editor and publisher of the error first and ensures that the correction is published. Each revision must be published on the web and accessible to readers.
Storage and Sharing of Data: When there are doubts about the accuracy of the research report, the author has to submit the data to the editor. If the author does not present the data, the article is rejected without further consideration. The researcher has to keep the data, application procedures and other materials for at least 5 (five) years from the date of publication of the research. After the article is published, other [qualified] researchers are required to share the data if they request research data. However, before sharing data with other researchers, all codes and data that could be associated with the identification of subjects/participants must be deleted. If research is funded by an institution, appropriate measures should be taken to protect the rights of that institution and to be cited appropriately. Between the researcher who wants to share the data and the researcher who owns the data; A written agreement must be signed and recorded, including the purpose of use of the data, scope of use, conditions and limitations, limits and conditions of sharing with third parties.
Publishing Data Again or Dividing in Parts: Republishing data is publishing the findings obtained from the same data in a second journal or another source as if they were being published for the first time. Republishing also results in violation of copyright laws. Because the author cannot give copyright to more than one institution for the same work. The whole of a previously published work or a part of it exceeding the amount that can be cited by citing the source cannot be published for the second time and in another source. A work with the same content or significantly similar to a previously published article cannot be submitted for consideration for publication. Manuscripts that have been presented as a paper but have not been published can be submitted for consideration in a journal by stating that it was presented as a paper with a footnote. However, published papers cannot be submitted for evaluation for publication in journals.
Plagiarism and Self-plagiarism: Authors cannot write other people's information and ideas as their own. Likewise, they cannot publish their previously published work or some of these works without attribution or citation.
Authorship: Authorship is a right earned by making a substantial contribution to a paper and accepting responsibility for the study published. To contribute significantly; means formulating the problem or hypothesis, structuring the experimental design or application procedures, performing statistical analysis, interpreting the results, writing part of the paper. Significant contributors are listed as authors. However, the names and contributions of other contributors that cannot be listed as authors should be indicated with footnotes. Other contributions that do not provide authorship rights but should be noted; It includes work and processes such as providing support in the creation of the data collection tool, making suggestions on data analysis techniques, collecting data or data entry, ensuring that the participants are found, and making routine observations.
While listing the names of the authors, the names of the authors are listed, starting with the author who contributed the most, taking into account the contribution of each author in general. If the contributions of the authors are equal, this issue can be clearly stated and alphabetical order can be made. Institutional or professional titles and statuses are not taken into account when naming authors.
Intellectual Property Rights Protection
Quotations and references should be made according to Article 35 of the Law No. 5846 on the Protection of Intellectual and Artistic Works (and Law No. 4630 amending this Law). According to Law No. 4630, the legal framework of citation or citation is defined as follows:
"Article 35 - It is permissible to cite a work in the following cases:
Taking some sentences and anecdotes of a publicized work into an independent work of science and literature;
Incorporating the most themes, motifs, passages and ideas of a published composition into an independent musical work;
Putting the works of fine art and other published works, which have become public, in a scientific work, in a proportion justified by the purpose, in order to illuminate their content;
Showing the works of fine art, which have become public, in scientific conferences or lectures, by means of projection and similar means to illuminate the subject.
The quotation must be made in a clear way. In scientific works, besides the name of the work used in the citation and the name of the owner of the work, the place where this part is taken is indicated.
Going beyond the citation and reference limits specified in this article constitutes a crime, and the penalties to be applied in case of committing this crime are also regulated by article 71 of Law No. 4630:
"Article 71 - (Amended article: 01/11/1983 -2936/11.; Amended article: 23/01/2008-5728 S.K./138.) Spiritual, financial and financial works related to intellectual and artistic works taken under protection in this Law or in violation of related rights:
Offering a work, performance, phonogram or production of works that are processed, represented, reproduced, modified, distributed, transmitted to the public by means of any sign, sound or image transmission, published or illegally processed or reproduced without the written consent of the right holders. A person who sells, distributes by leasing or lending or in other ways, buys for commercial purposes, imports or exports, holds or stores for purposes other than personal use, is sentenced to imprisonment from one year to five years or a judicial fine.
The person who names the work of another person as his own work is punished with imprisonment from six months to two years or a judicial fine. If this act is committed by distribution or publication, the upper limit of the prison sentence is five years and a judicial fine cannot be imposed.
The person quoting a work without citing the source is punished with imprisonment from six months to two years or a judicial fine.
A person who makes a public statement about the content of a work that has not been made public, without the permission of the right holders, is punished with imprisonment up to six months.
A person who provides insufficient, false or deceptive references for a work is punished with imprisonment up to six months.
A person who reproduces, distributes, disseminates or publishes a work, performance, phonogram or production using the name of another well-known person is punished with imprisonment from three months to one year or a judicial fine. Those who commit the acts mentioned in the first paragraph of additional article 4 of this Law without authorization and information content providers who continue to violate the rights recognized in this Law, are sentenced to imprisonment from three months to two years, unless their acts constitute a crime requiring a heavier penalty.
If a person who offers, sells or buys a work, performance, phonogram or production that has been produced, processed, reproduced, distributed or published illegally, ensures that they are caught by informing from whom they obtained them before the prosecution phase, the penalty to be imposed may be reduced or the penalty to be imposed may be reduced. can also be waived."

Correction, Retraction, Expression of Concern
Editor should consider publishing correction if minor errors that do not effect the results, interpretations and conclusions of the published paper are detected. Editor should consider retraction if major errors and/or misconduction that invalidate results and conclusions are detected. Editor should consider issuing an expression of concern if there is evidence of research or publication misconduct by the authors; there is evidence that the findings are not reliable and institutions of the authors do not investigate the case or the possible investigation seems to be unfair or nonconclusive. The guidelines of COPE and ICMJE are taken into consideration regarding correction, retractions or expression of concern.

If You Encounter an Unethical Situation
If you encounter any unethical behavior or content in the Journal of Van Yüzüncü Yıl University Journal of Education, please immediately report it to efdyyu@hotmail.com or ramazansak@yyu.edu.tr via e-mail.