Mingjia Ma, University of Iowa
This report summarizes the two-year trend of decision times for Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice and the Journal of Educational Measurement. The NCME Publications Committee regularly reviews this information as well as the NCME Board of Directors. The first part of this report is for EMIP, and the second part is for JEM. This information is provided to the NCME membership to highlight the efforts of the journal Editors, Editorial Boards, and reviewers.
Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice
Figure 1 shows the median number of days from the submission of the most recent version of the manuscript to decision for EMIP. There is a decreasing trend in general from Jan 2018 to May 2020.
Figure 1. Median number of days from the submission of the most recent version to decision of EMIP manuscripts.
Journal of Educational Measurement
Figure 2 shows the median number of days from the submission of the most recent version of the manuscript to decision for JEM. Similar to EMIP, there is a decreasing trend in general from Jan 2018 to May 2020.
Figure 2. Median number of days from the submission of the most recent version to decision of JEM manuscripts[1]
[1] “Reject Immediate” is not included for JEM because there was only 1 paper in this category for the time span.