Focus and Scope

The Journal of Curriculum and Instruction (JoCI) 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 audience for this journal includes higher education faculty, PreK-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 content areas related to curriculum and instruction.  Contributors to the journal include researchers and practitioners from PreK-12 schools, colleges, and universities.

Statistics, as recorded  by Google Analytics, report that between August 1, 2007 through October 21, 2011 JoCI received

• 54,438 visits, by 29,083 unique visitors (an increase of unique visitors of 11,711 from May 2010)
• 254,897 page views (an increase of 97,803 since May 2010)
• 71.64% new visits
• 15,974 visits came from 165 countries/territories outside the United States 
• 38,464 (70.66%) came from the United States.

The current acceptance rate for JoCI is 15.0%.

All manuscripts are peer-reviewed and are evaluated on the basis of their innovation, quality of scholarship, and contribution to the field of curriculum and instruction. Submissions are accepted for the following journal sections:

Research Forum - This section includes quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research. Author's Rubric for Review

Practitioner's Platform - This section includes descriptions of professional practice and action research projects that are supported by research-based literature.  Author's Rubric for Review

Perspective - This section includes empirically-based commentaries, position papers, and policy analyses. Author's Rubric for Review

 

 

Section Policies

From My Point of View...

This section provides an overview of the contents of this issue and is written by the guest editor.

Editors

• Diane Kester, East Carolina University Greenville, NC

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

By Invitation

Editors

• Diane Kester, East Carolina University Greenville, NC

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Research Forum

This peer-reviewed section includes quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research. Manuscripts are evaluated on the basis of their innovation, quality of scholarship, and contribution to the field of curriculum and instruction.

Editors

• Diane Kester, East Carolina University Greenville, NC

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Practitioner's Platform

This peer-reviewed section includes descriptions of professional practice and action research projects in PreK-12 settings that are supported by research literature.  Manuscripts are evaluated on the basis of their innovation, quality of scholarship, and contribution to the field of curriculum and instruction.

Editors

• Diane Kester, East Carolina University Greenville, NC

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Perspective

This peer-reviewed section includes empirically-based commentaries, position papers, and policy analyses. Manuscripts are evaluated on the basis of their innovation, quality of scholarship, and contribution to the field of curriculum and instruction. 

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Book Reviews

This peer-reviewed section features book reviews of 1000-1500 words with complete publication citations and book authors' backgrounds and credentials. The reviews are comprehensive explanations of specific topics covered, prospective audiences, summaries, and reviewers' opinions.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

News

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Editorial Board and Review Board

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Call for Manuscripts

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

International Investigations

Topic of interest from international authors.

Editors

• Diane Kester, East Carolina University Greenville, NC

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Review Process

   When a manuscript has been submitted by an author, the author will receive an acknowledgement e-mail.  Manuscripts are initially screened by the editors. Manuscripts that are clearly inappropriate for JoCI or fail to follow the submission guidelines, will be returned promptly. Manuscripts undergo a double-blind review process.

    Once  submitted, the author can loginto the system to check on the status.  Approximately three months after the submission deadline, confirmation will be sent to the submitting author with details regarding the final status of their manuscript.

Publication Frequency

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

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

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...

Information for Reviewers

 JoCI welcomes professionals interested in being a peer reviewer. Please be sure your reviewing interests are updated and assignments are made as closely to your interests as possible.

While we believe that the experience of reviewing a manuscript has the potential to be a valuable learning tool for doctoral students, we do not allow them to serve as reviewers for the Journal of Curriculum & Instruction (JoCI) in order to uphold the integrity of the review process.