Focus and Scope

Jurnal Pendidikan Fisika dan Teknologi (JPFT) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes scholarly contributions in physics education, applied technology in physics, and technology-enhanced physics learning. The journal provides a platform for lecturers, teachers, students, researchers, and practitioners to disseminate research findings and scholarly insights that contribute to the advancement of physics education and the development and application of physics-related technologies.

JPFT welcomes manuscripts that offer meaningful theoretical, methodological, empirical, or practical contributions to its areas of interest. The journal encourages studies that address current challenges, explore innovative approaches, and provide insights relevant to the advancement of physics education, scientific understanding, and technological applications.

The scope of JPFT includes the following areas:

1. Physics Education

This area covers research and scholarly contributions related to the teaching and learning of physics at various educational levels. It focuses on improving the quality of physics education through the development, implementation, evaluation, and analysis of educational practices, learning approaches, and assessment strategies.

Topics within this scope include, but are not limited to:

  • Physics teaching and learning: Innovative teaching approaches, instructional strategies, pedagogical models, and classroom practices for improving physics learning.

  • Curriculum and instructional materials: Physics curriculum development and evaluation, textbooks, teaching modules, worksheets, and other instructional resources.

  • Learning outcomes and conceptual understanding: Students' conceptual understanding, misconceptions, scientific reasoning, problem-solving skills, critical thinking, creativity, and other relevant competencies in physics.

  • Assessment and evaluation: Development and validation of assessment instruments, formative and summative assessment, diagnostic assessment, and evaluation of physics learning outcomes.

  • Physics teacher education and professional development: Pre-service and in-service physics teacher education, pedagogical competence, professional learning, and reflective teaching practices.

  • Innovative learning approaches: Inquiry-based learning, problem-based learning, project-based learning, collaborative learning, STEM/STEAM education, and other approaches relevant to physics education.

  • Contextual and interdisciplinary physics education: Integration of local knowledge, environmental issues, sustainability, and interdisciplinary perspectives into physics teaching and learning.

Studies may employ quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, experimental, developmental, or other appropriate research approaches, provided that they address relevant issues in physics education and offer a clear contribution to the field.

2. Applied Technology in the Field of Physics

This area focuses on the development, application, testing, and evaluation of technologies based on physics principles. It includes research that advances the understanding of physical phenomena and demonstrates the practical application of physics concepts, methods, and instrumentation in scientific, industrial, environmental, and technological contexts.

Topics within this scope include, but are not limited to:

  • Physics instrumentation and measurement: Design, development, calibration, and evaluation of measurement instruments, sensors, and experimental apparatus based on physical principles.

  • Experimental and computational physics: Experimental investigations, numerical simulations, computational modeling, and data analysis for studying physical phenomena.

  • Materials and applied physics: Investigation of the physical properties of materials and their potential applications in engineering, electronics, energy, and other technological fields.

  • Energy and environmental applications: Physics-based technologies related to renewable energy, energy efficiency, environmental monitoring, and sustainable technological development.

  • Electronics and control systems: Development and application of electronic circuits, data acquisition systems, automation, and control technologies involving physics principles.

  • Scientific and technological innovation: Design, testing, performance evaluation, and optimization of physics-based devices, systems, and technological solutions.

  • Applied optics, acoustics, and related fields: Research on optical systems, sound and vibration, electromagnetic phenomena, and their practical applications.

Submissions should demonstrate a clear connection to physics principles and provide sufficient scientific evidence of the proposed technology's design, performance, effectiveness, or potential application.

3. Physics Learning Technology

This area covers the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of technologies intended to support, enhance, or transform the teaching and learning of physics. It emphasizes the use of technological tools and learning resources to improve accessibility, engagement, conceptual understanding, and learning outcomes.

Topics within this scope include, but are not limited to:

  • Digital learning media and resources: Development and evaluation of interactive multimedia, digital modules, e-books, educational videos, and other digital learning materials for physics.

  • Computer-based simulations and virtual laboratories: Design and use of interactive simulations, virtual experiments, and laboratory environments that facilitate the exploration of physics concepts and phenomena.

  • Learning management systems and online learning: Integration of digital platforms, online learning environments, and technology-supported instructional strategies in physics education.

  • Emerging technologies in physics learning: Applications of artificial intelligence, augmented reality, virtual reality, and other emerging technologies to support physics teaching and learning.

  • Technology-assisted assessment: Digital assessment systems, automated feedback, online testing, and technology-supported approaches to evaluating physics learning.

  • Technology integration and learning effectiveness: Investigations into how educational technologies influence student engagement, motivation, conceptual understanding, learning outcomes, and other relevant educational indicators.

  • Digital and computational learning tools: Use of programming environments, data visualization, digital experimentation, and computational tools to support the learning of physics.

Manuscripts in this area should establish a clear relationship between the technology being investigated and its educational purpose. Studies are expected to provide a sound rationale, appropriate methodology, and evidence supporting the technology's contribution to physics teaching and learning.

Types of Articles

JPFT accepts the following types of manuscripts, provided that they align with the journal's focus and scope and meet its scholarly and editorial requirements.

1. Research Articles

Research articles report original empirical or theoretical investigations that contribute new findings, insights, methods, or applications to physics education, applied technology in physics, or physics learning technology. These manuscripts should present a clear research problem, relevant literature, an appropriate methodology, well-supported results, and a discussion of the significance and implications of the findings.

2. Literature Review Articles

Literature review articles provide a systematic, critical, or integrative examination of existing scholarly literature on topics relevant to the journal's scope. These articles should synthesize and critically evaluate previous studies, identify patterns and research gaps, discuss emerging developments, and establish meaningful implications for future research, educational practice, or technological development.

Literature reviews may adopt appropriate approaches, such as systematic literature reviews, scoping reviews, or other clearly defined review methodologies. Authors should explain their literature search and selection procedures, analytical approach, and synthesis process as appropriate to the chosen review design. A review article should offer more than a descriptive summary of previous publications and should provide a clear scholarly contribution.