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Who understands peer reviewing?
In the last few months, I’ve sent out a sprinkling of manuscripts for Education Policy Analysis Archives to folks outside the normal spheres of academe—not only those in think tanks who generally understand reviewing processes because they often submit to refereed journals, but also those in the surrounding “wonkosphere” (for want of a better word), […]
Table formatting
I’ve created a table-formatting tutorial because I don’t think another one exists to show how one formats academic paper tables in a way that is clean and easily readable, especially using symbols for statistical significance. Let me know what you think of it!
Data labeling trick in Excel
If you’ve wanted to label individual labels in Excel charts with extra data, there have typically been the option to create bubble charts, where the diameter of the bubble corresponds with a third variable. But what if the extra data is text (e.g., states in a national analysis). Check out Microsoft’s macro to label data […]
Acceptance statistics
In the six and a half months since I’ve been editor of Education Policy Analysis Archives, I’ve received 90 manuscripts (excluding a few withdrawals from authors who decided to resubmit a MS in Spanish to the journal). Here is the disposition: 7 accepted 9 revise-and-resubmit requests 14 rejected after reviews 37 manuscripts rejected before reviews […]
Accepting manuscripts
Now that I’ve been the editor at Education Policy Analysis Archives for six months, I’m starting to settle into the job. Some things are quick but don’t give too much joy. Easily and without guilt, I can reject manuscripts that are clearly inappropriate (stuff that might belong in a popular magazine or course papers that […]