Organizer of the event:
Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary
Faculty of Pedagogy
| Address: | 2750 Nagykőrös, Hősök tere 5. |
| Phone: | +36 53 350 885 |
| Website: | https://pk.kre.hu/ |
The Section’s website address: https://pk.kre.hu/otdk2025ttt/
Section e-mail address:pk.otdk2025ttt@kre.hu
Date of the event: 14–16 April 2025.
| Chair of the Organizing Committee: | Prof. Dr. Ferenc Pap |
| University Professor, Dean, Head of Department | |
| Phone: +36-53-350-885 | |
| E-mail: pk.dekan@kre.hu |
| Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee: | Dr. Etelka Tóth |
| College Professor, Vice-Dean, Head of Department | |
| Phone: +36-70-257-38-72 | |
| E-mail: toth.etelka@kre.hu |
| Secretary of the Organizing Committee: | Tibor Kovács |
| University Assistant Lecturer | |
| Phone: +36-30-586-79-96 | |
| E-mail: kovacs.tibor@kre.hu | |
| Secretary of the Organizing Committee: | Dr. Dóra Bárdos |
| Assistant to the Dean and Vice-Dean | |
| Phone: +36-30-258-07-61 | |
| E-mail: bardos.dora@kre.hu |
| Student delegate: | Orsolya Varga |
| E-mail: X044C3@kre.hu | |
| Deputy student delegate: | Kata Zsohár |
| E-mail:GIOG44@kre.hu |
The National Association for Student Research (OTDT), the Learning and Teaching Methodology – Knowledge Technology Section Committee of the OTDT and the organizing Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Faculty of Pedagogy hereby announce the Learning and Teaching Methodology – Knowledge Technology Section of the 37th National Student Research Conference under the conditions of the following call.
The conditions for participation and registration in the Section are set out in the General Call of the 37th OTDK and in this Call of the OTDT Learning and Teaching Methodology – Knowledge Technology Section Committee.
In the 37th National Student Research Conference (OTDK), TDK papers and authors (in the case of multi-author TDK papers, all authors) may participate that meet the conditions specified in the General Call for the 37th National Student Research Conference. Details are provided in Supplement 2 of the General Call for the 37th OTDK.
If a TDK paper has multiple authors, it can only be presented if all authors are registered for the 37th National Student Research Conference (OTDK) and all of them participate in the presentation (exceptions to this may only be made with the approval of the Section Committee).
ATTENTION! In the Learning and Teaching Methodology – Knowledge Technology Section, an author may submit a maximum of two TDK papers for the 37th OTDK.
Study circles from cross-border universities and colleges can participate in the 37th OTDK under the same professional conditions as those in Hungary. Details are available in the General Call of the 37th OTDK.
The conference is also open to secondary school students in Hungary and across borders who present their research results at conferences of higher education institutions or national high school science student conferences (for details see Supplement 4 of the General Call for the 37th OTDK) and are nominated for the 37th OTDK. A detailed description of the participation of secondary school students is available in the General Call of the 37th OTDK.
A thesis produced in the course of continuous TDK activity during BA and BSc education, can be entered to the 37th OTDK, if it meets the requirements of the Call and its Supplements and has been presented at a student research conference either during the BA/BSc or the subsequent MA/MSc training and has there been delegated by the OTDK.
Supplement 1 to the Section Call includes:
During registration, students must indicate the most appropriate section, as well as any other suitable sections, in which they wish to present their paper.
The fundamental rules for the establishment of the final session assignment are included in the General Call of the 37th OTDK. The Learning and Teaching Methodology – Knowledge Technology Section Committee may, based on the number of TDK papers received and their topic, merge some of the planned sessions/topics or create additional ones, so that the TDK paper may be assigned to a different session than the one indicated by the author(s) during registration. When establishing sessions, multiple professional criteria are considered to ensure that sessions can be formed in accordance with the regulations. The condition for starting an independent session is the receipt of at least 6 TDK papers in the given topic, on the condition that at least 5 of the 6 to 15 papers will be presented at the 37th OTDK. If the number of TDK papers to be presented in a given session is fewer than 5, that session may be merged with another session at the discretion of the Chair of the Learning and Teaching Methodology – Knowledge Technology Section Committee. The organizing institution, with the agreement of the Learning and Teaching Methodology – Knowledge Technology Section Committee, reserves the right to redirect TDK papers with content that does not align with the Learning and Teaching Methodology – Knowledge Technology Section’s field of study, thanking the applicants and transferring the paper to the appropriate section of the 37th National Student Research Conference.
The final decision on the sessions and the classification of the TDK papers will be made by the OTDK Learning and Teaching Methodology – Knowledge Technology Section. Students will be informed of this decision via the OTDT online system by 4 February 2025 at the latest.
4.1.1. Pre-registration of TDK papers
Following the institutional TDK conference, the upload of the TDK paper and selection of the section must be completed within 30 days of the email specified in point 4 of Supplement No. 2 of the General Call for the 37th OTDK. Participants who will be eligible to submit a TDK paper at an institutional/faculty student research conference held within 30 days before the application deadline for the Learning and Teaching Methodology – Knowledge Technology Section of the OTDK must upload their TDK paper to the OTDT online system by 29 January 2025 (Wednesday) at the latest.
ATTENTION! Uploading a TDK paper does not automatically constitute registration for the 37th OTDK. Applications must be submitted during the registration period, following the steps described in the next section.
4.1.2. The application
Registration period: 15 November 2024 – 29 January 2024 (Wednesday) 16:00 (CET)
Students’ tasks during this period are:
A common expectation for documents signed by hand or electronically:
a) a document authenticated using the Authentication Verification Service (AVDH, at https://niszavdh.gov.hu/index), using the Client Gateway or any other document authenticated using an enhanced security qualified electronic signature service
OR
b) a printed and hand-signed document may be accepted in scanned (PDF) format.
After the registration deadline for students – 29 January 2025 (Wednesday), 16:00 (CET) – it will no longer be possible for students to upload application documents in the OTDT online system.
Uploading the documents of the student research conference and sending them to the OTDT Office according to Supplement 2 of the General Call for the 37th OTDK.
A) Approval of participant registrations in the OTDT online system (all registrations are automatically approved in the system, so action is only required if the institution/faculty does not wish to delegate a submitted TDK paper to the OTDK).
B) For TDK papers and authors registered in the Learning and Teaching Methodology – Knowledge Technology Section, the summary list of approved registrations must be printed from the OTDT online system, signed by hand, scanned, and uploaded in PDF format to the OTDT online system, OR the summary list generated in Excel format from the OTDT online system must be converted to PDF, electronically signed with an AVDH electronic signature or another highly secure qualified electronic signature, and then uploaded to the OTDT online system.
Common expectations for documents signed by hand or electronically:
a) a document authenticated using the Authentication Verification Service (AVDH, at https://niszavdh.gov.hu/index), using the Client Gateway or any other document authenticated using an enhanced security qualified electronic signature service
OR
b) a printed and hand-signed document may be accepted in scanned (PDF) format.
Deadline for institutional and faculty TDT Chairs to upload documents to the OTDT online system: 3 February 2025 (Monday) 16:00 (CET). After the deadline it will no longer be possible to upload application documents in the OTDT online system.
We are unable to accept TDK papers that do not meet the requirements outlined in the Learning and Teaching Methodology – Knowledge Technology Section Call; such applications will be rejected.
Applications submitted individually are invalid.
The registration fees for the 37th OTDK will be decided at a later stage, subject to the availability of funding.
A certificate of participation in the OTDK will be awarded to all authors and supervisors of each paper presented. In addition, a maximum of one third of the papers presented may be awarded one of the first, second and third places per section, taking into account that a maximum of one application per session may be awarded first place. The Section Panel may award a special prize to those papers that do not achieve ranking but are judged by the Session Panel to be worthy of recognition on the basis of their professional merit, and which are judged to be immediately behind the winning applications. The authors of the winning papers and those of the papers receiving the Special Prize of the Session Panel will each receive a certificate for the ranking or the Special Prize of the Session Panel.
The total number of winning papers and papers awarded the Special Prize of the Session Panel may not exceed 50% of the total number of papers presented in a section. Further rules on prizes are set out in Supplement 3 to the General Call.
Submission of Pro Scientia Gold Medal application
The authors of TDK papers that have been awarded first place at the national conference may apply for the Pro Scientia Gold Medal, provided they meet the additional criteria set out in the call. Details are given in Supplement 5 of the 37th OTDK General Call.
We invite and welcome all interested students and their masters!
Budapest, 9 April 2024.
| Dr. József Kaposi | Prof. Dr. Ferenc Pap |
| Associate Professor | University Professor |
| Chair of the OTDT Learning and Teaching Methodology – Knowledge Technology Section Committee | Chair of the Organizing Committee of the 37th OTDK Learning and Teaching Methodology – Knowledge Technology Section |
Note: If any interpretational issues arise between the Hungarian call and its English translation, the Hungarian version shall prevail.
The language of the OTDK is Hungarian. The application must be submitted in Hungarian. Exceptions apply only in the fields of foreign language pedagogy and pedagogy of minority languages and cultures, allowing submissions in the foreign language that students study as their main field in higher education. For these submissions, a Hungarian abstract of 3-5 pages covering the content of each main section must accompany the written component. At the 37th OTDK, such TDK papers may also be presented in a foreign language; however, following the 15-minute presentation in the foreign language, the presenter must give a 5-minute summary in Hungarian, which will be followed by a 5-minute discussion.
All TDK papers submitted to the 37th OTDK are subject to a plagiarism check, which is evaluated by a three-member special committee set up by the Learning and Teaching Methodology – Knowledge Technology Section Committee, which reviews the results of the plagiarism check one by one. Applicants are reminded that plagiarism in any form is not allowed, and that even their own works may not be quoted without a reference (prohibition of self-plagiarism). In the case of revising a previous institutional TDK paper, it is sufficient/mandatory to reference the prior work in the introduction. TDK papers that are proven to infringe copyright will be excluded from the 37th OTDK by the OTDT, with simultaneous notification to the nominating institution.
You may not use artificial intelligence applications/programs (e.g., image generators, text generators) during the preparation of the TDK paper unless your research topic is directly related to them.
Please include a signed, scanned declaration in the supplement of your paper regarding the use of AI applications/programs. You can select the appropriate declaration from the templates provided in section 7 of this document.
General requirements:
Time for uploading the TDK paper to the OTDT online system: within 30 days after the acceptance of the student research conference, as described in Supplement 2 of the General Call of the 37th OTDK. Participants who will be eligible to submit a TDK paper at a student research conference held within 30 days before the application deadline for the Learning and Teaching Methodology – Knowledge Technology Section of the 37th OTDK must upload their TDK paper to the OTDT online system by the application deadline.
The TDK paper must be uploaded in PDF format. The maximum file size is 10 megabytes. TDK papers that exceed the maximum length specified by the Learning and Teaching Methodology – Knowledge Technology Section cannot be uploaded to the OTDT online system. The file size and page count are checked by the OTDT system.
All TDK papers must include the closing date (month, year).
General formal requirements:
The following font and page setup parameters are only recommendations; deviations are allowed if justified by the specific requirements of the scientific field.
Font: Times New Roman (other fonts specific to the field may be used, e.g., for mathematical formulas).
All figures and tables in the TDK paper must be numbered with Arabic numerals, and they should be referenced accordingly within the text. The precise source of figures and tables from other authors should always be indicated directly beneath the title of the figure or table.
Font size: 12 pt
Line spacing: 1.5
Margin: 2.5 cm
Section-specific requirements:
The TDK paper must be a minimum of 30 pages, excluding supplements. The total length, including bibliography, supplements, photographs, references and appendices, should not exceed 100 pages.
The maximum number of pages of the TDK papers are checked by the OTDT online system when they are uploaded.
Uploading supplementary documents is permitted. The supplementary document must be uploaded as a single file, with a maximum size of 10 megabytes.
Method of referencing: APA 7.0
link: https://sti.ppk.elte.hu/dstore/document/4459/APA%207.pdf
Title Page: the title page must include the author(s)’ name, field of study, level of study, the title of the TDK paper, the name of the sending institution, and the year of completion.
The TDK paper should contain a table of contents that outlines the main structure of the paper, including page numbers.
Titles, subtitles:
Subheadings and chapter headings should be indicated by decimal numbers as follows:
1. Primary; 1.2 Secondary; 1.2.3 Tertiary.
Text highlights:
In the text, linguistic data and examples should be in italics, while emphasis should be in bold. Do not use underlining or any other means of highlighting!
The body text of the abstract must be uploaded to the OTDT online system, other data (names of the co-authors, name of the institution, name of the supervisor(s), position, etc.) are generated by the OTDT online system.
The language of the abstract is Hungarian. For applications in a foreign language, the abstract must be uploaded in the language of the application.
The abstract should be at least 500 and no more than 2500 characters.
The structure of the abstract: background and objectives, methodology, results, conclusions.
The abstract should include a brief overview – maximum 500 characters – of the student’s own attributed results.
The submitted TDK paper will be evaluated in writing by two reviewers, based on the following criteria:
A maximum of 50 points in total can be awarded in the written evaluation.
The score awarded for the TDK paper is the average of the scores given by the two reviewers.
The written evaluations will be published by the organizers of the Learning and Teaching Methodology – Knowledge Technology Section in the OTDT online system and made available to students no later than one week before the conference.
At the conference, participants will have 15 minutes to present their TDK paper (presentation), followed by a 5-minute discussion. The presentation will be evaluated by a Session Panel of recognized members of the field. Presentations in foreign languages are allocated 20 minutes (15 minutes in foreign language, 5 minutes summary in Hungarian), followed by a 5-minute discussion.
In the case of multiple-author TDK papers, all authors must participate in the oral presentation.
Evaluation criteria for the presentation:
The maximum score for the presentation evaluation is 50 points.
DECLARATION
I hereby declare that I did not use any artificial intelligence applications/programs (e.g., image generation, text generation) during the preparation of this TDK paper.
By signing this declaration, I acknowledge that if it can be proven that I did not prepare the TDK paper myself, or if I used the assistance of an artificial intelligence application/program, or if any copyright infringement arises concerning the TDK paper, the Section will reject its acceptance.
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I hereby declare that, due to its relevance to the research topic, I used artificial intelligence tools/programs (e.g., image generation, text generation) in the preparation of this TDK paper.
By signing this declaration, I acknowledge that if it can be proven that I did not prepare the TDK paper myself, or if any copyright infringement arises concerning the TDK paper, the Section will reject its acceptance.
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