The URLs below
are organized into seven areas:
Statistics (software, too)
- InStat (GraphPad Software)
- Excel statistics plug-ins: WinSTAT and Analyse-It
- The Scolari software site (home to such qualitative packages as WinMax, Ethnograph, Nud*ist,HyperResearch, and the Methodologist's Toolchest)
- SPSS overview (as well as technical and conceptual assistance)
- The Knowledge Base: An Online Research Methods Textbook -- as well as an online decision tree for selecting statistics (developed by Bill Trochim) and the larger Trochim website
- Guides to quantitative and qualitative research (provided by Colorado State University)
- 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 Electronic Textbook
- Seeing Statistics (by Gary McClelland)
- The Fraenkel & Wallen website
Research/evaluation-oriented resources (search areas; design issues; online survey providers)
- Buros Mental Measurements Yearbook Test Reviews (Online)
- ERIC (which has undergoing substantive revision (structural, managerial) -- 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)
- The W. K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook; the W. K. Foundation Logic Model Development Handbook
- The Theory in Practice (TIP) Database
- The ASCD Research Briefs
- 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 ... a gateway to special reports technology use and integration
- The Chronicle of Higher Education (on the web)
- Apple Computer, Inc. (1995). Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines. New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
- Visual Design for Interactive Multimedia -- a CD (and accompanying website) focused on screen design and usability
- Jakob Nielson's Alertbox (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 Usability in Design and Assessment (CUDA) -- at CSU/Long Beach
- The research/resources area at ASTD (available to members 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 assessment
- Two synopsis of Krathwoh's taxonomy (affective domain); review #1 and review #2
Need help with creating surveys?
- SurveyShare.com: subscription
- Free Online Surveys.com: free
- SurveyTracker: subscription
- SurveyMonkey: subscription
- Zoomerang: subscription
- Response-o-Matic: free
- Quia: subscription
- SurveySuite: just about free
- Perseus: subscription
- Pendragon: subscription
- WWW Survey Assistant: free
- Formsite: subscription
- Scantron (samples): free
Professional associations of interest to evaluators
- The 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)
- California League of Middle Schools/California League of High Schools/National Leagues of High Schools (CLMS, CLHS, NLHS, respectively)
- 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)
Recently-released reports or white papers
- Various reports and publications provided by National Education Goals Panel
- 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
- Reports regularly published by Education Week (EdWeek) on the Web, including Quality Counts 2004
Online journals 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 library services subscribes to vendors who provide staff, faculty, and students with unlimited/free online access to journals directly related to instructional technology and human performance?
- American Journal of Distance Education
- Chronicle of Higher Education
- Continuing Higher Education Review
- DEOSNEWS
- International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
- Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN)
- Journal of Continuing Higher Education
- Journal of Distance Education
- Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration
- Quarterly Review of Distance Education
- Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation (PARE), published by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation and the Dept. of Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation at the University of Maryland, College Park
- The ISS Source, an online professional journal for educators worldwide published by International Schools Services
- Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN)
- International Journal of Educational Technology
- 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/University of Toronto)
- Educational Technology Review and Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (both publications of the Association for the Advancement of Computer in Education (AACE)
- Syllabus Magazine
- T.H.E. Journal
- Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
- Google Distance Learning Directory
- ICDL (International Centre for Distance Learning) Literature Database
- Learning Resources
- SHEEO
- Distance Education Clearinghouse
Here's a list of journals in which you can find research reports related to Educational Technology. Their call numbers from SDSU's campus library are provided in parentheses.
- aace's digital library
- american journal of distance education (LC5805.A43)
- british journal of educational technology
- Classroom Computer Learning (LB1028.43.C53)
- Cognition and Instruction (LB1060.C6)
- Cognitive Psychology (BF1.C5)
- Cognitive Science (BF311.C552)
- Computer in Schools (monographic supplement LB1028.43.A33)
- educational media international
- Educational Psychologist (LB1051.E35)
- educational researcher (L11.E3)
- educational technology (LB1043.E33)
- educational technology research & development (LB1028.3.E384)
- Electronic Learning (LB1028.5.E43)
- Evaluation Review (HM1.E8)
- human-computer interaction
- instructional science(L11.I54)
- international journal of technology and design education
- Journal of Computer Based Instruction (LB1028.5.J613)
- journal of distance education
- Journal of Educational Psychology (LB1051.A2 J6)
- Journal of Educational Technology (LB1028.3.J68)
- Journal of Research on Computing (LB1027.A8)
- journal of educational computing research
- Journal of Special Education Technology (LC4023.J68)
- learning circuits: ASTD
- Learning and Leading with Technology (LB1028.5.C58)
- learning environments research
- Performance and Instruction (LB1028.5.P47)
- performance improvement
- Review of Educational Research (L11.R35)
- Simulation &Gaming (HM1.S5)
- tech trends for leaders in education and training (LB1043.A815)
- Technological Horizons in Education (LB1028.3.T42)
- Technology and Learning (LB1028.43.C53)
- The Technology Teacher (T1.J62)
- Training (HF5549.5.T7 T675)
- Training and Development (HF5549.5.T7 A6)
Other resources for K-12 content/performance standards
- Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (online)
- Dept. of Education/California (standards-based reform efforts)