ISSN 2176-2171 printed version
ISSN 2318-1338 online version

ABOUT THE JOURNAL

• Focus and scope
• Periodicity
• Disclosure
• Open access policy
• Fees for submission and publication of texts
• Orcid
• DOI
• Declaration of publication ethics and malpractice
• Authorship criteria
• Authors' responsibilities
• Plagiarism
• Conflict of interest
• Funding sources
• Acknowledgements
• Indication of affiliation
• The evaluation process
• Catalog sheet

The Regae: Revista de Gestão e Avaliação Educacional, is maintained by the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria - UFSM.

It has been published in Brazil since 2009, and has as thematic coverage the areas of school administration, school management, educational policies, educational evaluation, and institutional evaluation. Its mission is to constitute a vehicle for the dissemination of studies in the field of education. The target audience is made up of teachers, students, researchers, and leaders of school institutions.

The Regae is hosted in the periodicals portal of the Federal University of Santa Maria at http://periodicos.ufsm.br/regae/index, and is presented in an online format.

The process of submission, evaluation, editing and publication is done through the Electronic Journal Editing System, a licensed translation of the Open Journal Systems - OJS.

The abbreviated title of the periodical, which should be used in bibliographies, footnotes, references and bibliographic strips, is Regae: Rev. Gest. Aval. Educ.

Regae is presented in a continuous publication format.

Regae has disclosure on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@regae-revistadegestaoeaval9441/featured - and on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/revistaregae.

All the contents of this periodical, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NonDerivatives 4.0 International - CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

By open access, it means that documents are freely available on the Internet, so users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or reference the full text of the documents, process them for indexing, use them as input data for software programs, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers.

There are no fees for published texts, nor for those submitted for evaluation, review, publication, distribution or download.

The registration of the number in Orcid is mandatory: https://orcid.org/.

All articles published in Regae receive a DOI number.

In the scope of Regae, the practices of respect for ethical conduct are prioritized, following the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics - Cope -, which can be found at http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines. Thus, editors strive to avoid and prevent publication of articles in which research misconduct has occurred; in no case is misconduct encouraged or allowed to occur; any allegations of improper research conduct will be investigated; there is a willingness to publish corrections, errata, clarifications, right of reply, retractions and apologies when necessary.

Authors are those who have contributed substantially and directly to the design and writing of the paper; participated in the analysis and interpretation of the data; participated in the writing, versioning, content review, and approval of the final version; and agreed that they are responsible for the accuracy and integrity of the entire work.

You are requested to use the taxonomy of contributor roles - Credit - to represent the respective contributions to the text: http://credit.niso.org.

• Authors are responsible for the content of their articles, as well as for the copyright of images, videos and any textual or complementary elements of their article.
• The authors declare that they have a significant contribution to the research disclosed in their article, when this is the case.
• The authors are obliged to provide the periodical with retractions or corrections of any errors.
• If the article has been written based on research that presents risks to the participants, an approval from the ethics committee of the researcher's institution may be required.
• The authors agree to work voluntarily in the peer review process for this periodical in the future.

Plagiarism is the act of signing or presenting as one's own the intellectual content of the work of another person or group. The following attitudes are considered plagiarism: to quote verbatim the work of another person, without proper citation of the source; to paraphrase the work of another person, changing some of the words, or the order of the words, without proper citation of the source; to use the ideas of another person, without reference to the author; cut and paste from the Internet, without proper citation of the source.

Proposers should ensure that manuscripts are original and, if they use articles by other authors, that they are properly cited.

Conflict of interest is the situation in which authors have interests that may influence the manuscript elaboration process. These are conflicts of diverse nature - personal, commercial, political, academic or financial - to which anyone can be subjected, reason why, when present, authors should recognize and disclose them.

Authors should declare all sources of funding or support - institutional or personal - for the realization of the study. The name of the institution or person should be identified.

When desirable and pertinent, it is recommended to name, in a footnote, the people who collaborated in the elaboration of the study, even though they do not fulfill the authorship criteria. The authors are responsible for obtaining authorization from these people before naming them in their acknowledgments. Institutions may also be acknowledged for their financial or logistical support for the study. Impersonal acknowledgements should be avoided.

Information about the author must be informed in the profile registered in the periodical's system and required by the Seer/OJS system. It should be noted, in particular, the full name without abbreviations, e-mail, institutional affiliation, summary of the biography, registration number in Orcid.

• All periodical contents are submitted for review by the double-blind peer review method.
• Peer review is the process of obtaining reports on individual manuscripts from peer reviewers who are experts in the field.
• The reports must be sufficiently well-reasoned to allow for the improvement of the research and the text under review.
• Reviewers should have no conflicts of interest and declare this in writing in the journal system when conducting a review.
• Reviewers should draw attention to texts or excerpts that have already been published and have not been properly cited.
• All articles evaluated are treated as confidential.
• The periodical understands that any form of plagiarism is not acceptable.
• The final decision on publication or non-publication of a text is made by the editorial board.
• The evaluation criteria are academic merit and improvement of the quality of knowledge, with no discrimination against authors for any reason.
• Editors are not permitted to use information contained in the articles under evaluation without the explicit consent of the authors.
• The editors are available to answer any ethical questions regarding a submission.