editorial28-8.pdf Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Volume 28, Number 8, 2012 ISSN 1449-5554 (online) Contents Editorial 28(8): AJET's ranking: Citation-based bibliometrics ...................................................... iii-v Tertiary sector Online learning in the workplace: A hybrid model of participation in networked, professional learning ............................................................................................ 1267-1282 Mary Thorpe and Jean Gordon Differences in the educational software evaluation process for experts and novice students ................................................................................................................... 1283-1297 Hatice Sancar Tokmak, Lutfi Incikabi and Tugba Yanpar Yelken Developing technological pedagogical content knowledge in pre-service science teachers: Support from blended learning ................................................................. 1298-1316 Ghaida M. Alayyar, Petra Fisser and Joke Voogt Relating use of digital technology by pre-service teachers to confidence: A Singapore survey .................................................................................................................... 1317-1332 Alexander Seeshing Yeung, Kam Ming Lim, Eng Guan Tay, Audrey Cheausim Lam-Chiang and Chenri Hui Activity theory and technology mediated interaction: Cognitive scaffolding using question-based consultation on Facebook ..................................................................... 1333-1361 Patient Rambe The e-portfolio continuum: Discovering variables for e-portfolio adoption within music education ............................................................................................................. 1362-1381 John Taylor, Peter Dunbar-Hall and Jennifer Rowley Experience and beliefs of technology users at an Australian university: Keys to maximising e-learning potential ................................................................................ 1382-1404 Gerry Kregor, Monique Breslin and Wendy Fountain Learner perceptions and recall of small group discussions within 2D and 3D collaborative environments ...................................................................................................... 1405-1419 Steve Downey, Jill Mohler, Joan Morris and Rene Sanchez Schools sector The Rise of Li’ Ttledot: A study of citizenship education through game-based learning ... 1420-1432 Kenneth Y. T. Lim and Matthew Y. C. Ong Incorporating Internet resources into classroom practice: Secondary school teacher action plans .................................................................................................................... 1433-1450 Elena Ramírez, María Clemente, Isabel Cañedo and Jorge Martín Reasons for using or not using interactive whiteboards: Perspectives of Taiwanese elementary mathematics and science teachers ...................................................................... 1451-1465 Syh-Jong Jang and Meng-Fang Tsai "This is my thing!": Middle years students' engagement and learning using digital resources ......................................................................................................................... 1466-1486 Paul Molyneux and Sally Godinho ii Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2012, 28(8) The Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (AJET) is a refereed research journal published 8 times per year by the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ascilite). AJET retired its printed version (ISSN 1449-3098) at the end of Volume 23, 2007, and from Volume 24, 2008, the journal is open access, online only (ISSN 1449-5554), and does not have paid subscriptions. © 2012 Authors retain copyright in their individual articles, whilst copyright in AJET as a compilation is retained by the publisher. Except for authors reproducing their own articles, no part of this journal may be reprinted or reproduced without permission. For further details, and for details on submission of manuscripts and open access to all issues of AJET published since the journal's foundation in 1985, please see http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ Although Production Editor Dr Roger Atkinson has now completed his retirement from current AJET activities, he may be contacted concerning errata in Volumes 1 (1985) to 28 (2012) inclusive, and AJET historical and archival matters: Email: rjatkinson@bigpond.com Web: http://www.roger-atkinson.id.au/ For inquiries concerning year 2012 submissions, the interim editorial team is Associate Professor Sue Bennett (University of Wollongong; sue_bennett@uow.edu.au), Associate Professor Barney Dalgarno (Charles Sturt University; bdalgarno@csu.edu.au) and Associate Professor Gregor Kennedy (University of Melbourne; gek@unimelb.edu.au), with ascilite Secretariat support from Mr Andre Colbert (colbert.andre@gmail.com). AJET is managed by a Committee comprising ASCILITE Executive nominees, the convenors or nominees from previous ascilite Conferences, and AJET's previous editors and current senior editorial staff (to be reconstituted in 2012-13). The current 2012 Management Committee members are: Dr Caroline Steel, The University of Queensland, ASCILITE President Dr Iain Doherty, The University of Hong Kong, ASCILITE Executive Professor Geoffrey Crisp, RMIT University, ASCILITE 2003 Convenor Dr Rob Phillips, Murdoch University, ASCILITE 2004 Convenor Professor Peter Goodyear, University of Sydney, ASCILITE 2006 Convenor Dr Dale Holt, Deakin University, ASCILITE 2008 Convenor Professor Ron Oliver, Edith Cowan University, AJET Editor 1997-2001 Assoc Prof Catherine McLoughlin (Editor - retirement pending), Australian Catholic Uni Dr Roger Atkinson (Production Editor - retirement pending) AJET's Editorial Board (see http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/about/editorial-board.html) reflects the journal's commitment to academic excellence in educational technology and related areas of research and professional practice, our vision of an international journal with an Australasian regional emphasis, and our origins as a professional and learned society publication. Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education http://www.ascilite.org.au/ Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2012, 28(8) iii Editorial 28(8) AJET's ranking: Citation-based bibliometrics This part of Editorial 28(8) is unusual, perhaps very unusual, because its purpose is to update an AJET data table that was provided to ascilite's President, Dr Caroline Steel, for President's Report 2012 [1]. The very unusual part arose from the item "BJET Announcement: Amendment to 2011 Impact Factor", that appeared sometime in the second half of 2012 on the British Journal of Educational Technology website [2]: Following an appeal, Thomson Reuters have formally amended the 2011 Impact Factor for BJET: Amended Impact Factor: 2.098 Amended Ranking: 12/203 Education & Educational Research This compares to 1.539 in the initial release, and a ranking of 24/203. Quoted below, a copy of the AJET Production Editor's 2012 advice to the ascilite President for her 2012 report [1], with an updated version of the matter now needing an update, namely Table 1: This section, compiled by retiring Production Editor Roger Atkinson, summarises AJET's current position relative to its major competitors, according to a number of citation-based bibliometrics, including the 2011 values for one of the most influential, the Thomson Reuters Impact Factor (Table 1). Whilst AJET's 2011 Impact Factor, 1.517, is down slightly compared with 2010 (1.655), it compares well with 2009 (1.278), and AJET remains well-ranked on the "ladder" of international educational technology journals (Table 1). AJET is also well-ranked amongst educational research journals generally, as may be seen from a wider searching of SCImago Journal Rankings and Google Scholar Metrics. However, there is a need to sustain the momentum that has been nurtured for some years, towards building the loyalty of researchers who will read AJET articles and cite AJET articles in their own submissions of work, whether to AJET or to a competitor journal. Following the demise of the Australian Research Council's Tiers for the Australian Ranking of Journals in mid-2011 (see Notes for Table 1), Australian researchers are likely, over time, to accord more attention to journal rankings derived from citation count-based bibliometric data, in contrast to rankings based upon other methodologies or unspecified methodologies (as occurred with Tiers) relating to "reputation". Increased attention to citation based bibliometrics may prove to have two positive effects. Firstly, this trend could give more weight to the views of a broader and larger community, extending far beyond a journal's editorial staff and their immediate community, such as an editorial board and a sponsoring society's membership. http://www.ascilite.org.au/index.php?p=conference iv Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2012, 28(8) Secondly, bibliometric data can provide authors, readers and editorial staff with benchmarks or "key performance indicators" that can be valuable for refining perspectives and views that may otherwise be excessively dependent upon more subjective impressions. In particular, new perspectives will become available from systematic analyses of submission demographics, and from rigorous quantitative and qualitative studies of aspiring author behaviours. [1] Table 1: Comparing Impact Factor and Tiers rankings for some peer journals Journal Impact Factor (a) IF rank order (b) Tiers 2010 (c) SJR(d) Q(rank) GSM h5- index(e) URL for obtaining Impact Factor Computers & Education Yes 1 (same as 2010) A 0.056 Q1 (21) 58 http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ computers-and-education/ British J. of Educat- ional Technology Yes 2 (same as 2010) A 0.045 Q1 (44) 36 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-8535 Instructional Science Yes 3 (up one from 2010) A 0.042 Q1 (55) 21 http://www.springer.com/education +%26+language/learning+%26+instru ction/journal/11251 Australasian J. of Educ. Technology Yes 1.517 4 (down one from 2010) B 0.041 Q1 (64) 23 http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ J. of Computer Assisted Learning Yes 5 (same as 2010) A 0.051 Q1 (27) 33 http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/ WileyTitle/productCd-JCAL.html Educational Tech- nology, Res & Devt Yes 6 (same as 2010) A 0.043 Q1 (52) 28 http://www.springer.com/education +%26+language/learning+%26+instru ction/journal/11423 Educational Tech- nology & Society Yes 7 (same as 2010) B 0.038 Q1 (84) 27 http://www.ifets.info/ Research in Learn- ing Technology No Not ranked A Not listed Not listed http://www.researchinlearning technology.net/ J. of Technology & Teacher Education No Not ranked B Not listed Not listed http://www.aace.org/pubs/jtate/ Technology, Peda- gogy & Education No Not ranked B 0.030 Q2 (211) 13 http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ rtpe20/current a. Based on statements given at journal websites; values from Thomson Reuters' 2011 Journal Citation Reports: Social Science Edition. b. Journals are ranked according to IF values as published at the URLs listed in column 7 (13 Sep 2012). Thomson Reuters may regard the publishing of tables of IF values as an infringement of copyright and therefore readers not having institutional library access to 2011 Journal Citation Reports: Social Science Edition need to consult the individual journal home pages to ascertain their IF values. c. ARC Tier rankings may be obtained conveniently from Lamp, J. (2011). ERA Journal Rankings Access. ERA 2010 Finalised Lists. http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/era/?page=jmain. "Tiers for the Australian Ranking of Journals" is defined at http://www.arc.gov.au/era/tiers_ranking.htm d. SJR (SCImago Journal Rankings) from http://www.scimagojr.com/ (Subject Area: Social Sciences; Subject Category: Education; Year: 2011; Q = quartile, (rank) = rank in 525 journals in Education. http://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?category=3304&area=3300&year=2011) e. GSM h5-index from Google Scholar Metrics, http://scholar.google.com.au/intl/en/scholar/metrics.html f. Earlier versions of Table 1 were provided in various AJET Editorials, including Editorials 27(6), 28(2) and 28(4). See also Editorial 27(3), concerning the demise of Tiers. Data compilation by Roger Atkinson, 13 Sep 2012 (updated 9 Nov 2012). Of course, the update for Table 1 is a routine, minor matter (BJET up on place on the Impact Factor ladder, IS down one place), perhaps akin to an errata item. Nevertheless, there are interesting matters arising. For example, what was the basis for Thomson Reuters acceding to the BJET appeal? Is there a previously unseen problem with the algorithm for Impact Factor calculations, or the definitions of "countable publications" that underly Impact Factor calculations? However, in the future it is probably unlikely Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2012, 28(8) v that we will encounter an increasing number of instances in which a journal succeeds with an appeal concerning data published by any party which has become widely recognised as an authority in matters pertaining to bibliometric-based rankings. The reason for this estimate is that journal editors are more likely to put their main efforts into securing an increased number of citations, using a number of strategies that go beyond simplistic notions that "better quality articles" will generate more citations, and its converse, namely that "more citations" establishes "higher quality". The relationships are complex, though of course with current trends it seems safe to reiterate that researchers will "accord more attention to journal rankings derived from citation count-based bibliometric data, in contrast to rankings based upon other methodologies or unspecified methodologies." Retirement pending becomes retirement completed! One of the problems with AJET Editorials, not hitherto recorded, is that nearly always they have been "last minute" jobs, completed only after all articles and tables of contents for each issue were ready for publication (though I hasten to add that often the research reading and data preparation extended over a much longer time). For quite a number of years there have been no volunteers offering to write Editorial items (other than for Special issues). So, it is with an element of relief that I sign off on writing AJET Editorials (above, a concluding update on some of AJET's benchmarks or "KPIs"), which were just one part of my editorial staffing engagement with AJET extending over 16 years. During that period, especially in the latter half, AJET grew in a way that became "outside the box" of traditional ASCILITE/ascilite mainstream membership (that is, the annual conference participants). My historical perspective on those years can be presented elsewhere: the draft title for the first topic is "Journals with borders, journals without borders: Under- representation of Asian countries in educational research journals", and there are other topics arising from "systematic analyses of submission demographics, and ... studies of aspiring author behaviours". But here the most important matter is to formally thank all of AJET's authors and reviewers. Without you there is no journal! Though at times in the past two years AJET editorial work grew to be near a full time activity, it has been always a pleasure to have worked with you and for you. Roger Atkinson AJET Production Editor (AJET retirement completed!) http://www.roger-atkinson.id.au/ Endnotes 1. Ascilite (2012). Presidents Report 2012. [the file Presidents Report 2012.pdf at http://hub.ascilite.org.au/mod/folder/view.php?id=208 is available only to ascilite members] 2. British Journal of Educational Technology - Wiley Online Library. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-8535 vi Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2012, 28(8) Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education and Nanyang Technological University Singapore, 26-30 November 2012. http://www.lsl.nie.edu.sg/icce2012/ Sydney, 4-7 February 2013. http://www.odlaasummit.org.au/ Auckland, 1-4 July 2013. http://conference.herdsa.org.au/2013/ ICALT2013: 13th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies IEEE Computer Society and Beijing Normal University Beijing, China, 15-18 July 2013 http://www.ask4research.info/icalt/2013/