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Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The purpose of this electronic journal is to disseminate scholarly work in the area of curriculum and instruction through the publication of research on teaching and learning in the preK-12 environment. Journal Of Curriculum and Instruction is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that provides a forum for the dissemination of articles focused on research, practice, and related issues relevant to teaching and learning in the preK-12 environment. The journal is published semi-annually around themed issues.

The audience for this journal included higher education faculty, Pre K-12 teachers, graduate students in education, pre-service teacher education candidates, school administrators, and educational policymakers with an interest in curriculum and instruction. Themes are chosen in an effort to identify common threads across the content areas related to curriculum and instruction. Contributors to the journal include researchers and practitioners from Pre K-12 schools, colleges, and universities.
Manuscript acceptance rate is 15% for the first four issues.

Statistics, as recorded by Google Analytics, report that between August 1, 2007 through January 26, 2009 JoCI received

14,885 visits, by 10,085 unique visitors
83,836 page views
66.99% new visits
14,885 visits came from 117 countries/ territories (55 of them with 10 or more visitors)
All 50 states (all with 10 or more visitors)

The acceptance rate for 5 issues is 11.9%.

 

Section Policies

From My Point of View...

Editors
  • Diane Kester, Executive Editor, JoCI
  • joci manager
  • Elizabeth Swaggerty, East Carolina University
  • Guili Zhang, East Carolina University
Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

By Invitation

Editors
  • Diane Kester, Executive Editor, JoCI
  • joci manager
  • Elizabeth Swaggerty, East Carolina University
  • Guili Zhang, East Carolina University
Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Research Forum

Editors
  • Diane Kester, Executive Editor, JoCI
  • Elizabeth Swaggerty, East Carolina University
  • Guili Zhang, East Carolina University
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Practitioner's Platform

Editors
  • Diane Kester, Executive Editor, JoCI
  • Elizabeth Swaggerty, East Carolina University
  • Guili Zhang, East Carolina University
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Perspective

Editors
  • Diane Kester, Executive Editor, JoCI
  • joci manager
  • Elizabeth Swaggerty, East Carolina University
  • Guili Zhang, East Carolina University
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Book Reviews

Editors
  • Diane Kester, Executive Editor, JoCI
  • Elizabeth Swaggerty, East Carolina University
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Editorial Board and Review Board

List of Editorial Board, Review Board

Editors
  • Diane Kester, Executive Editor, JoCI
  • joci manager
  • Elizabeth Swaggerty, East Carolina University
  • Guili Zhang, East Carolina University
Unchecked Open Submissions Unchecked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Call for Manuscripts

Call for Manuscripts for future journal

Editors
  • Diane Kester, Executive Editor, JoCI
  • joci manager
Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Peer review of manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Curriculum and Instruction (JoCI) begins after the due date indicated in each issue's Call for Manuscripts. The peer review process takes place in multiple steps. The initial step of the peer review process involves blind review by the JoCI Editorial Team to ensure that manuscript content is thematically appropriate and fits into one of JoCI's three categories (Research Forum, Practitioner's Platform, or Perspective). The second step is a double-blind review process in which manuscripts are sent to members of the JoCI Review Board, comprised of experts in the field related to each thematic issue. As part of the evaluation process, these reviewers suggest whether the manuscripts are accepted with no revisions, accepted with revisions, or rejected. At this time, articles receiving the designation accepted with no revisions and/or accepted with revisions are sent to the Guest Editor for the themed issue. The Guest Editor, an invited expert, reviews these manuscripts and decides which pieces are most cohesively related to the theme. The Guest Editor's decisions are forwarded to the JoCI Editorial Team and final decisions about manuscript selection are determined collaboratively between the Guest Editor(s) and the JoCI Editorial Team. Authors are notified accordingly. Editors then proceed with the final editorial process in collaboration with manuscript authors.

 

Publication Frequency

The journal is published semi-annually around themed issues with an occasional open call for manuscripts.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides access to all of its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Such access is associated with increased readership and citation levels. The journal uses open source software, developed by the Public Knowledge Project,to help make open access economically viable, as well as to improve the scholarly and public quality of research.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...