Screening Criteria

The following screening criteria are applied to non-journal materials submitted through the Online Submission system:

• Must be relevant to education
• Must meet basic quality criteria
• Full text must be provided
  • Materials written in a language other than English must include a complete English translation
  • Slides, spreadsheets, or other non-text materials without accompanying text will not be considered
• A summary or abstract must be provided.

Relevance to Education

All materials included in ERIC must meet the selection standard of being directly related to the field of education. The collection scope spans early childhood education through higher education, vocational education, and special education; including teaching and teacher education, education administration, assessment and evaluation, counseling, information and technology, and the academic areas of reading, mathematics, science, and environmental education, languages, and social studies. Beyond these topical domains, the collection includes materials addressing one of the three objectives detailed in Section 172 of the Education Sciences Reform Act:

• Closing the achievement gap
• Educational practices that improve academic achievement
• Education research

Quality Criteria

Materials considered for inclusion in ERIC are subject to the following basic quality criteria:

• Completeness: The material must be complete and usable as it is presented.
• Integrity: The material must be sufficiently protected from unauthorized modifications or falsifications.
• Objectivity: The objectivity of the material has been verified at some point in its development by a review process.
• Substantive Merit: The materials must address scope areas in a professional and/or definitive way.
• Utility/Importance: The material must be relevant to current priorities in education and be of interest to the broad education community.