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Curriculum Research

This guide is here to help you navigate the resources available in the area of educational curriculum design, development, evaluation, and more.

UMSL Databases

  • APA PsycInfo Best Bet
    APA PsycInfo® is the American Psychological Association's renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, containing over 3 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s.
  • Chronicle of Higher Education Best Bet
    The Chronicle of Higher Education has the nation’s largest newsroom dedicated to covering colleges and universities. More information on the benefits of our site license: Frequently Asked Site License Subscription Questions
  • Education eBook Collection (part of the eBook Collection (EBSCO)) Best Bet
    EBSCO's eBOOK Education Collection features thousands of titles supporting students and faculty in the Education discipline. Titles range from introductory texts for undergraduate coursework to more complex and detailed works for advanced students and scholars. Also included are support materials for student teachers and professionals working in K-12 and higher ed classrooms, covering topics from curriculum building to student behavior and dynamics.
  • Education Full Text Best Bet
    Education Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts education-related articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. English-language books relating to education published in 1995 or later are also indexed. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source documents. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996.
  • ERIC Best Bet
    The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, provide access over one million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials. In addition to ERIC's indexing of educational journal content, ERIC's Document coverage includes conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
  • Psychiatry Online Premium Best Bet
    Includes access to the APA journals, the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), DSM-TR, and related materials.
  • Academic Search Complete
    Academic Search Complete is a scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database, with several thousand full-text periodicals, most of which are peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for many more journals, monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
  • AfricaBib
    AfricaBib consists of several bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature: Africana Periodical Literature; African Women; Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa; Islam in Africa; Kenya Coast; Water in Africa; and Education in Africa along with a few additional resources: African Journals Online; African Studies Abstracts Online; Catalogue of the African Studies Centre Leiden; and Connecting-Africa.
  • APA PsycArticles
    APA PsycArticles® offers full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology published by the American Psychological Association. Access over 70 top, full-text psychology journals covering the disciplines of Human Physiology, Personality Psychology, Social Psychology, Educational Psychology, and more. For a more extensive and in-depth search use APA PsycInfo.
  • CaseLaw Access Project
    The goal of the Caselaw Access Project (“CAP”) is to expand public access to U.S. law and "to make all published U.S. court decisions freely available to the public online, in a consistent format, digitized from the collection of the Harvard Law School Library."
    This collection may be useful in conjunction with our main legal database: HeinOnline Academic
  • Child Welfare Information Gateway
    A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to print and electronic publications, websites, databases, and online learning tools for improving child welfare practice, including resources that can be shared with families.
  • data.census.gov (U.S. Census)
    data.census.gov provides access to population, housing, economic and geographic data gathered by the United States Census Bureau. It provides access to data about the United States, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas. The data is drawn from several censuses and surveys. Older City & County Data Books (2007 and earlier)
  • Education Index Retrospective
    Education Index Retrospective provides cover-to-cover indexing for an international range of English-language periodicals and yearbooks. It includes indexing of some 500 periodicals. It cites nearly one million articles, including book reviews.
  • Educational Administration Abstracts
    Educational Administration Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
  • ERIC.ed.gov
    This is the public version of ERIC, and it may produce slightly different results than the EBSCO or ProQuest versions. It will not link to UMSL's journal holdings via our Linker. However, it can still be a useful supplementary source of information. Recent improvements include links to Institute of Education Sciences research & grant abstracts as well as links to the What Works Clearinghouse.
  • Explora (Educator's Edition)
    Explora is EBSCO's K-12 interface and is listed here for Education students working to develop lesson plans & curricula.
  • Explora (Primary: Grades K-5)
    Explora is EBSCO's K-12 interface and is listed here for Education students working to develop lesson plans & curricula.
  • Explora (Secondary: Grades 6-12)
    Explora is EBSCO's K-12 interface and is listed here for Education students working to develop lesson plans & curricula.
  • Exploring Race in Society
    Exploring Race in Society is a free EBSCO resource. Note: The dashboard and tools on the left are NOT linked to our other EBSCO resources at this time.
  • Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
    HaPI is a comprehensive bibliographic database indexing articles from approximately 1933 to present (mainly 1985 to present) about behavioral measurement instruments; it contains citations and abstracts (when available) to hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences along with instruments from Industrial/Organizational Behavior, Education, and Library and Information Science. We have a 1 user license - please check back in a while if someone else is using HaPI.
  • IGI Global Ebooks and Research Anthologies
    Access to over 6,000 DRM free books from IGI Global.
  • JSTOR

    JSTOR contains articles and books, usually at least 3-5 years old, from scholarly sources. They also have some primary resource collections. For more recent material, use Discover@UMSL or other individual databases.

  • Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
    Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print, produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments.
  • National Center for Education Statistics
    The National Center for Education Statistics is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education in the United States and other countries.
  • ProCon.org
    ProCon.org, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit nonpartisan public charity, provides professionally-researched pro, con, and related information on more than 50 controversial issues from gun control and death penalty to illegal immigration and alternative energy.
  • Professional Development Collection
    Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of high quality education journals, including peer-reviewed titles and educational reports.
  • PTSDpubs
    The PTSDpubs database indexes the worldwide literature on PTSD and other mental health consequences of exposure to traumatic events. This database was created in partnership with ProQuest and was previously referred to as PILOTS. Although the resource is produced by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, it is not limited to literature on PTSD among Veterans.
  • Salem Press
    Salem Press includes references, books, and primary sources in the areas of Literature, History, Science, Health, Education, Business, Economics, Counseling/Social Work, and more. You can search all of UMSL's titles at once, search only selected titles using the Advanced Search, or browse the Subject Index.
  • Smithsonian Open Access
    Explore and reuse millions of digital items from the Smithsonian’s collections. Also includes datasets, 3D tools, a learning lab (for curricula & lesson plans), and developer tools.
  • SSRN
    SSRN is an open-access online preprint community providing valuable services to leading academic schools and government institutions. Specializing primarily in social sciences, including economics, law, corporate governance, and humanities, SSRN is branching out into other science disciplines. Most, but not all papers are free.
  • St. Louis Regional Data Exchange (RDX)
    The St. Louis Regional Data Exchange (RDX) is a unified open data portal for the St. Louis Region. On this site, you will find publicly available data from all over the St. Louis area, compiled and documented by the St. Louis Regional Data Alliance. Our vision for the RDX is to be a one-stop-shop for public community data in St. Louis, helping people find data on local government and nonprofit websites — or uploaded onto the RDX directly.
  • Student Activism (Open Access)
    The Student Activism collection is intended to serve as a scholarly bridge from the extensive history of student protest in the United States to the study of today's vibrant, continually unfolding actions. The collection captures the voices of students across the great range of protest, political actions, and equal-rights advocacy from the 20th and early 21st century United States. The primary sources are broad-based across time, geography, and political viewpoint — from conservative to anarchist.
  • Tests in Print
    Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. MMY provides coverage from Volume 1 to the present. Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language and includes data such as test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).
  • University of Missouri - Institutional Research
    Contains various UM System reports and statistics concerning student, faculty & staff demographics, salaries, retention rates, financial aid, degrees awarded, and other measures. Some current and older salary reports are also available in the Thomas Jefferson Library.