Pre-Submission Checklist

Please confirm every item below before submitting. Submissions that do not meet these requirements may be returned to the authors without review.

1. The manuscript falls within the Aims and Scope of I-JBER and is directly related to education.
2. The work is original, has not been published previously, and is not under consideration by any other journal.
3. The manuscript is written in English and prepared in Microsoft Word (.docx) format.
4. The abstract is 150–250 words and is followed by 4–6 keywords.
5. Citations and references follow APA 7th edition, every in-text citation appears in the reference list, and DOIs are provided where available.
6. A separate title page has been prepared, and the manuscript has been fully anonymised for double-blind review.
7. Declarations (funding, competing interests, ethics approval, consent, data availability, use of AI tools, and author contributions) are included.
8. Ethics approval has been obtained for research involving human participants.
9. Permission has been obtained for any third-party material.
10. The similarity index does not exceed 20% (excluding references).
11. All authors have approved the submission and agree with the authorship order.
12. Authors have read the Fees and Funding policy.