The URLs below are organized into six areas:
- Statistics/statistical software
- Evaluation-oriented resources (including online survey providers)
- Professional associations for evaluators
- Recently-published reports or articles relevant to our field (and, most likely, your own study)
- Online journals (featuring articles that will help you launch your own research)
- K-12 resources (for those of you focused on our schools)
- Excel statistics plug-ins: WinSTAT and Analyse-It
- InStat (GraphPad Software)
- The Scolari software site (home to such qualitative packages as WinMax, Ethnograph, Nud*ist,HyperResearch, and the Methodologist's Toolchest)
- The Knowledge Base: An Online Research Methods Textbook -- as well as an online decision tree for seleccting statistics (developed by Bill Trochim) and the larger Trochim website
- Introductory Statistics: Concepts, Models, and Applications (a text first published in 1996 by David W. Stockburger, Southwest Missouri State University)
- HyperStat Textbook Online (provided by Dr. David Lane, Rice University)
- A Policymaker's Primer on Educational Research (a joint effort of McREAL and the Education Commission of the States)
- Statistics every writer should know (which contains very useful stats, an FAQ forum, and review lessons) VassarStats (a Java-enhanced website for statistical computation)
- Berrie's Statistics Page
- The Statistics Glossary (Valerie J. Easton and John H. McColl)
- StatSoft (an electronic textbook)
- Seeing Statistics (by Gary McClelland)
- Buros Mental Measurements Yearbook Test Reviews (Online)
- ERIC (which has undergoing substantive strructural and managerial revision) -- and an overview of its development history
- The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University ... and its Checklist Project
- FedStats: statistics from more than 70 government agencies
- The Bureau of Justice Assistance/Evaluation Website (providing practitioners with a variety of resources for evaluating criminal justice programs)
- Educational Research Service (which strives to provide reliable, unbiased information to local school districts)
- The Online Evaluation Resource Library (provided by SRI International)
- Resources from the W. K. Kelllogg Foundation, includingi its Evaluation Handbook and its Logic Model Development Handbook
- The Theory in Practice (TIP) Database
- ASCD Research Briefs
- Harvard Family Research Project/Evaluation Exchange
- The Policy Information Center (a service of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation/US Dept. of Heath and Human Services
- The US Census Bureau
- Education Week on the Web ... including a array of reports on technology use/integration
- The Chronicle of Higher Education (on the web)
- Visual Design for Interactive Multimedia -- a CD (and accompanying website) focused on screen design and usability
- Jakob Nielson's Alertbox (subtitled: Current Issues in Web Usability)
- Usability.gov (a service of the National Cancer Institute, and dedicated resource for designing "... usable, useful, and accessible websites and user interfaces")
- The Center for Usablity in Design and Assessment (CUDA) -- at CSU/Long Beach
- wwwtools For Education--a fabulous resource foucsed on teaching/learning on the web; click here to subscribe to the newsletter
- The research/resources area at ASTD (available to memers and nonmembers alike)
- A synopsis of Bloom's taxonomy (cognitive domain), recent changes to it (promoted by Anderson, Krathwohl, and others), and how to apply its tenets to assesment
- Two synopsis of Krathwohl's taxonomy (affective domain: review #1 and review #2
Need help with creating surveys?
- SurveyShare.com: subscription
- SurveyTracker: subscription
- SurveyMonkey: subscription
- Zoomerang: subscription
- Response-o-Matic: free
- Quia: subscription
- SurveySuite: subscription
- Perseus: subscription
- Pendragon: subscription
- Formsite: subscription
- Scantron (nice samples): subscription
- American Evaluation Association (AEA)
- Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)
- International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI)
- American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)
- Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
- National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
- National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
- Califonia League of Middle Schools and the California League of High Schools
- National School Boards Association (NSBA)
- Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
- American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- American Association of School Administrators (AASE)
- International Reading Association (IRA)
- International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
- International Technology Education Association (ITEA)
- Various reports and publications prrovided by (the now defunct) National Education Goals Panel
- National Educational Technology Plan (released in January 2005 by the US Dept. of Education, in partnership with the US Dept. of Commerce)
- Articles, reports, and white papers published by or disseminated through the Milken Exchange for Educational Technology; CEO Forum; or the Metiri Group
- Links to reports, technical assistance, and other pertinent materials published or disseminated by the Regional Lab System (funded by the US Dept. of Education)
- The results of a series of surveys (on growth/usage of the web) administered by the Graphic, Visualization, & Usability Center
- Various publications and research reports: National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (UCLA)
- Publications (for educators and for policymakers) released by Educational Testing Service
- The results of funded studies conducted and published by USI's Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO) -- in particular, the Teaching, Learning, and Computer home page
- Reports funded by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) -- charged with assessing the academic performance of fourth, eighth, and twelfth graders in a range of subjects
Note: Many journals now have an online presence. The following is just a SAMPLE of what's available on the web! Did you know that SDSU subscribes to vendors who provide staff, faculty, and students with unlimited/free online access to journals directly related to instructional technology and human performance?
- Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation (PARE), published by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation and the Dept. of Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluaton at the University of Maryland, College Park
- Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (from the Sloan Consortium)
- The Technology Source, a periodical that assists educators as they integrate IT tools into teaching and into managing educational organizations
- SIMILE (Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education/Unversity of Toronto)
- AACE Journal and Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education -- both publications of the Association for the Advancement of Computer in Education (AACE)
- Campus Technology Magazine
- T.H.E. Journal
- Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
- Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (online)
- Dept. of Education/California (standards-based reform efforts)