ACM TOCE is always seeking volunteers who are experts in some aspect of computing education, learning sciences, and related fields. All scholars are eligible, including doctoral students.

We manage our reviewer pool on Reciprocal Reviews, a platform that makes reviewing labor visible and compensates it. Volunteering there tells our Associate Editors what you can review and how much you are willing to take on, and it is how you earn tokens for the reviewing you do.

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Reciprocal Reviews replaces our reviewer pool spreadsheet as of November 2026. If you signed up on the old Google Form, please volunteer again at the link below — Associate Editors work from the Reciprocal Reviews list now, and we cannot see the old sign-ups from there.

How do I volunteer?

1. Make sure you have an ORCID account first.
2. Go to our venue's roles page.
3. Sign in with your ORCID.
4. Volunteer for the reviewer role.
5. Share your expertise as phrases separated by commas (for example: introductory programming, qualitative methods, K-12, equity). Associate Editors search this text when they are looking for reviewers, so use the words other people in your area would use.
6. Set a cap on how many papers you are willing to review at a time. This is a soft limit that editors can see and generally respect.

You can pause volunteering at any time from the same page if you need a break, and resume later without losing your record.

What do I earn?

Volunteering for the first time earns you a welcome grant of tokens, and each completed review earns more. A submission to TOCE costs tokens, so reviewing is how you pay for having your own work reviewed. Current amounts, and the reasoning behind each one, are shown on the venue page. That page is always the authoritative source, so we do not repeat the numbers here.

Submissions entering the review cycle from the 1 November 2026 deadline onward are paid for in review tokens; earlier submissions are not.

Your Associate Editor releases your compensation once they have read your review and confirmed it meets our review quality expectations. It is not automatic, and it does not happen the moment you press submit. See How am I compensated for reviewing? for what to do if it does not arrive.

How does bidding work?

Our reviewer role is open for bidding, which means volunteers can browse TOCE's submissions and bid on the ones they would like to review. A bid is a signal of interest, not an assignment: the Associate Editor still decides who reviews what, and still invites you through Manuscript Central.

When you bid, you see a submission's title and the expertise the authors said was needed. You do not see the abstract, the manuscript, or the authors' identities — our reviewing remains double-anonymous. If you recognize a submission as one you have a conflict with, press Declare conflict and it will no longer appear in your list.

Can I review without an account?

Yes. You are welcome to review for us whether or not you use Reciprocal Reviews, and we are grateful either way. You simply will not earn tokens for it, because there is nowhere to put them.

Reciprocal Reviews does support gifting tokens, so consider reviewing, earning tokens, and then giving them to junior scholars you want to support, scholars who need release from reviewing duties, or back to the journal so we can use them to create gift pools for emerging topics.

Questions?

Write the Editor-in-Chief, or see the Reviewer Guidelines for how we ask you to review.