Submissions

Author Guidelines

• Article submission guideline to the Ethiopian EJTVET
  Title (font size12) in bold, following it author/s details in footnote (go to reference icon and
  click on insert footnote)
  1. Introduction
  1.1 Background of the study:
  This section should deal with the following:
  Introduce the topic to the reader and explain why it’s interesting or important
  Give a brief overview of what is already known about the topic
  Explain how your research fits into the existing body of knowledge
  Clearly state the problem your research is designed to solve or conceptualize
  provide more detailed information about the context of the research problem
  Briefly describe what each section of the paper covers
  1.2 Statement of the problem
  Expand the title by giving more specific details about the problem
  Explain the rationales for your research, and show the research gap that your study aims
  to fill
  set the research questions/hypothesis you aim to answer/test.
  1.3 Objectives of the study
  state your general objective that you plan to achieve in your research (related to your
  research title)
  state your specific objectives, and make these objectives align to your research
  questions or hypothesis
  1.4 Significance of the study
   Explain how your research will contribute to policy and practice
  Federal TVT Institute Research and Community Service Directorate
  ISSN: 3005-4362
  Ethiopian Journal of Technical and Vocational Education and Training
  URL: https://doi.org/10.17613/xc0h-ba96
  1.5 Scope of the study
   Explain the scope of your study stating your specific geographical location, participants,
  and concept
  1.6 Operational definition of terms
   if there are variables that you are going to quantitatively measure, provide operational
  definitions
   Define those key terms in the way you use in your research (please don’t give
  conceptual definition)
  2. Conceptual framework/literature review
   Synthesize the previous research works published in reputable journals (preferably
  publications in the last 10 years)
   Generate conceptual framework from your review, and this should show the
  relationship between the variables you are interested to play with
  3. Methods and materials- this section should include the following sub-sections:
   Research design (descriptive, experimental, causal-comparative, case study,
  phenomenology, narrative, …or designs that are known in your field of studies)
   Research approach (quantitative, qualitative, mixed)
   Data sources (primary, secondary…)
   Participants of the study (human or non-human participants)
   Sampling (sample size, sampling techniques, and procedures)
   Data collection tools/instruments and procedures (if it is design or experimental
  research clearly describe the materials in addition to the procedures)
   Methods of data analysis (show how data collected from different data gathering tools
  has been analysed)
   Ethical consideration (explain how you maintain ethical code of conducts accepted by
  the scientific community)
  4. Results (findings for qualitative research) and discussions
   Present the findings first in the order of importance (i.e, present the most important
  findings first, and proceed to the least important ones)
   Compare the results with previous findings you reviewed in section two (literature)
  Federal TVT Institute Research and Community Service Directorate
  ISSN: 3005-4362
  Ethiopian Journal of Technical and Vocational Education and Training
  URL: https://doi.org/10.17613/xc0h-ba96
   If your results/findings differ from/contradict with previous findings, explain the
  probable reason/s for why your result/finding/s differ/vary
  5. Conclusions and recommendations/implications
  5.1 Conclusions
   Discuss the implications of your study
   Describe the limitations of your research
   Suggest areas for future research
   Avoid over or under conclusions
  5.2 Recommendations
   Give suggestions to policy makers and practitioners, avoid advise or obligations in your
  recommendations
   Make sure that your recommendations are generated from the results/findings
  References
   Acknowledge all the sources you cited in the body section of your research
   Use APA style in the in-text citation and referencing
  Other criteria
   Make the tables and figures in APA format
   Use American English
  Use Times New Roman font style
  Use 1.5-line spacing,
  Make the spaces at the top, bottom, right and left margin 1-inch
  The maximum page allowed including references is 20 (A4 size)
  Leave 10cm space between paragraphs