Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research

This page lists FREE resources for methods in evaluation and social research.  The focus is on "how-to" do evaluation research and the methods used: surveys, focus groups, sampling, interviews, and other methods.  Most of these links are to resources that can be read over the web.  A few, like the GAO books, are for books that can be sent away for, for free (if you live in the US), as well as read over the web.

Protecting the public   Visit here first!  This page has links to information about human research protection practices, research codes and guidelines, rights of the public, professional standards and ethics and others related to protection.  I hope the links listed here are very helpful, because this is stuff to which all researchers should pay serious attention.
Resources

Basic guides   These have very plain and clear descriptions of what evaluation is. Useful to introduce people to evaluation.

Organizations

Methods - books, manuals, guides to research methods and evaluation

Approaches to evaluation  and Politics of evaluation.

Survey methods

Sites specifically about sampling

Methods - Qualitative

Policy Analysis

Research about research methods   Journals, individual papers, conferences, etc.

General methods, and links that don't fit elsewhere

Links to links   Sites like this one, that link to resources for evaluation and research methods.

Gao books  on survey design, statistics, content analysis, other methods topics.

Statistics, design

Data Issues. Quality, usability, etc... I'm working on this one.

Free software for statistics, and a few office suite packages

Presenting statistical data and preparing research reports

subject areas you need to know social psychology, organizations, other

Free Statistical Tools on the Web   brief review of free statistical resources. 

Insights   insights about evaluation from various people. only a few so far.


Training  on line training courses. NEW
Featured sites

On line research methods
http://www.geog.le.ac.uk/orm/site/home.htm
How to do research on line.


National Centre for Research Methods
http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/
especially see their publications: some literature reviews, about informed consent and imputation.

Got something you'd like me to feature? Let me know.




Other sites of interest

Feed the hungry at  http://www.thehungersite.com/

Pictures, movies, virtual postcards, midi music,  for kids to look at or listen to. Well anyway, my kid  likes to look at these.
http://earth.prohosting.com/elecon/kidpage/



About this site

This site is a partner with the webring of independent evaluators   http://www.evaluators-webring.net/index.html

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This site is listed as a link from the American Evaluation Association, the Canadian Evaluation Society, the International Association of Survey Statisticians, OECD and Unicef.  Click here for a complete list of sites that list this site.

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Many of the sites listed on the evaluation site were found by looking at other sites related to evaluation, for example, the Free Management Library, CDC's site, and through others.  Some were also found by looking at general sociology sites.  We are thankful to all of them.

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This site was created by Gene Shackman, Applied Sociologist.

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