About Journal

Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology (ISSN 1927-0526; E-ISSN 1927-0534) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Canadian Center of Science and Education. The journal publishes original research articles, review articles, and case studies in the fields of educational psychology and developmental psychology.

Authors are encouraged to submit complete, original, unpublished manuscripts that are not under review by any other journal. All published articles are freely available online.

Focus and Scope

Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology publishes empirical, theoretical, review, and methodological research that advances understanding of learning, instruction, and human development. The journal covers educational psychology, developmental psychology, and productive connections between them.

Areas of interest include cognition and learning; motivation, self-regulation, and achievement; educational assessment and measurement; school psychology; social, emotional, moral, language, and literacy development; child, adolescent, adult, and lifespan development; family, peer, school, and cultural contexts; neurodevelopmental differences; and psychologically grounded educational interventions. Studies of digital learning, teacher education, counseling, or special education are eligible when they investigate an explicit psychological construct or developmental mechanism and contribute to psychological theory or evidence.

The journal welcomes longitudinal, experimental, observational, cross-cultural, and mixed-method designs suited to the research question. It does not publish general curriculum or policy studies, routine program evaluations, technology-use reports, clinical outcome papers without a clear educational- or developmental-psychology contribution, or descriptive family and child studies that lack such a contribution.