DATA SHARING POLICY

Data Sharing Policy

This policy explains how authors of Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pembelajaran (DIAJAR) make the data and the materials behind their results available, and how they protect the people who took part in their research. Research on education often involves students, teachers, and schools, so openness about data must always be balanced with the protection of the participants.

Question	Answer
What is the basis of the policy?	Share upon reasonable request
Is a Data Availability Statement required?	Yes, for every research article
Where does the statement go?	In the Acknowledgements section of the manuscript
Must data be deposited in a repository?	No, but it is encouraged when it is ethically appropriate
Can data about participants be shared?	Only when sharing is ethically appropriate, the participants cannot be identified, and the consent allows it
Is the data peer reviewed?	No. The authors are responsible for the soundness of their data.

1. Policy Basis

DIAJAR uses a policy of sharing upon reasonable request. By submitting a manuscript, the authors agree to make the data and the materials that support their results available to other researchers when a reasonable request is made. The authors decide whether a request is reasonable, and they should consider the purpose of the request and the protection of the participants.

The right of the authors to decide on requests from other researchers does not limit the editors. The authors must provide the data and the materials to the editors when the editors ask for them during the review of a manuscript, or after publication when a concern about the integrity of the work is being examined, as described in the Allegations of Misconduct policy. Authors should keep their data for a reasonable period after the article is published.

2. Data Availability Statement

Every research article must contain a Data Availability Statement. The article template does not have a separate section for it, so please write the statement in the Acknowledgements section, together with the funding statement and the competing interests statement. The statement should say the following.

Whether the data and the materials that support the results are available.
Where and how they can be obtained, for example through a repository with a persistent identifier, as supplementary files, or by contacting the corresponding author.
If the data cannot be shared, the reason, for example the protection of the participants, the conditions of the consent, or the restrictions of the school or the institution.

Examples:
Available on request. The anonymized data set that supports the findings of this study is available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Deposited in a repository. The data set and the research instruments are available in [name of the repository] at [DOI or persistent link].
Not available. The interview recordings and transcripts cannot be shared, because the participants did not consent to their release and they could be identified from the content. The interview guide is provided as supplementary material.
Included in the article. All data that support the findings are presented in the article.

3. Citing Data

Authors must cite the data sets that they use or refer to, including data sets that they created themselves and have deposited, and data that come from other sources. A citation of a data set is added to the reference list in the format of the journal, as explained in the Manuscript Preparation guidelines, and it should include the DOI or another persistent link whenever one exists. When the data come from another source, for example national or regional statistics, school records, or an existing database, the authors should name the source and describe the conditions of access.

4. Ethical Limits and Protection of Participants

Data should be shared only when sharing is ethically appropriate. Authors are not required to share data when this would violate the protections for human participants, or would raise other ethical, privacy, or security concerns. In particular, authors must respect the consent that the participants gave. When the participants are minors, extra care is needed, and the permission of the parents or guardians and of the school must cover the way in which the data are used and shared.

Type of data	How to handle it
Test scores, grades, and questionnaire responses	Share in anonymized form. Remove names, student numbers such as the NISN, and any other direct identifiers. Check whether small groups, rare characteristics, or the combination of school, class, and age could still identify a person.
Interviews, focus groups, and classroom recordings	These are usually not shared in full. Share anonymized excerpts, the coding scheme, or the interview guide instead. Share recordings only when the participants clearly consented to it.
Research instruments	Tests, questionnaires, observation sheets, rubrics, interview guides, lesson plans, and learning materials are encouraged as supplementary material, as long as the authors hold the rights to publish them. See the section on third party material on the Licensing page.
Analysis scripts and software	Sharing is encouraged, so that other researchers can check and repeat the analysis.
Data about schools and teachers	Share only when the school and the teachers cannot be identified, or when they agreed to be named.

Data about students, teachers, and other participants must always be handled confidentially, as stated in Publication Ethics. The authors must not upload personal data of participants to generative AI tools, as stated in the Generative AI Policies.

5. Repositories and Licenses for Data

The journal encourages authors to deposit data that can be shared in a trusted repository that assigns a persistent identifier, such as a DOI. Examples are general repositories such as Zenodo, the Open Science Framework, Figshare, and Mendeley Data, as well as the repository of the institution of the author. The deposit of data is not required by this policy.

Authors should attach a clear license to the data that they deposit, so that others know how the data may be reused. The CC BY 4.0 license of the journal applies to the published article. It does not automatically apply to data sets that are held in other places, as explained in the Licensing page.

6. Information at Submission

When authors submit a manuscript, they state whether a data set is associated with it. If it is, they must give a DOI, a preregistered DOI, a hyperlink, or another persistent identifier. Please write this information in the comments to the editor field of the submission form, and in the Data Availability Statement of the manuscript. Authors who give a preregistered DOI must be ready to provide the reviewer URL of their data deposit when the reviewers ask for it. Supplementary files are uploaded together with the manuscript.

7. Review and Responsibility

Data sets are not formally peer reviewed as part of the review of a manuscript. The authors are responsible for the soundness of their data, and errors in the data rest with the producers of the data. The reviewers may ask for access to data or materials when they need them to evaluate the manuscript. If a significant error in the data is found after publication, the journal handles it under the Correction and Retraction policy. A Data Availability Statement that is found to be false, or data that are withheld without a legitimate reason when the editors ask for them, can be handled under the Allegations of Misconduct policy.