DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR EVALUATORS

Compiled by Catherine Callow-Heusser (cheusser@cc.usu.edu OR ccallowheusser@yahoo.com)

DIGITAL RESOURCES for EVALUATORS--Home

Communities of Evaluators

Education and Training in Evaluation

Organizations, Associations, Foundations, Agencies

Companies and Consultants

Funding and Employment

Evaluation Texts and Documents

Tools, Instruments, Software and Data

Other Sites with Lists of Web Links

Most Used or Favorite Sites

Tools, Instruments, Software, and Data

Instruments

Surveys

Software

Publications

Data Sources and Statistics

Data Analysis and Statistics

Software

Publications

On-Line Evaluation Tools

Thanks to the many EVALTALKERs who suggested links to websites.

 

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Instruments

BUROS Institute of Mental Measurements

http://www.unl.edu/buros/

Buros Mental Measurements Yearbook Indexes

http://www.unl.edu/buros/index00.html

Cancer Prevention Research Measures, Cancer Prevention Research Center

http://www.uri.edu/research/cprc/measures.htm

CDC Surveys and Data Collection Systems

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/express.htm

Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) Instruments

http://www.caps.ucsf.edu/projects/instrumentindex.html

Center for Equity and Excellence in Education Test Database

http://ericae.net/eac/

Character Education Partnership Assessment Instruments

http://www.character.org/resources/assessment/

CSAT GPRA Client Outcome Measures for Discretionary Programs, The Measurement Group

http://www.themeasurementgroup.com/pdf/csat_gpra.pdf

Demographic and Health Surveys

http://www.measuredhs.com/

Educational Testing Service

http://www.ets.org/

Educational Testing Service Test Collection

http://www.ets.org/testcoll/index.html

ERIC/AE Test Locator

http://ericae.net/testcol.htm

Evaluation Checklists Project, Evaluation Center at WMU

http://www.wmich.edu/evalctr/checklists/

Evaluator's Instruments Exchange, Evaluation Center at Western Michigan

http://141.218.173.232:120/xchange/default.htf

FLAG: Field-tested Learning Assessment Guide for Science, Math, Engineering, and Technology Instructors

http://www.flaguide.org/

Global Appraisal of Individual Needs, Lighthouse Institute

http://www.chestnut.org/LI/gain/

Insight Assessment, Assessment and Evaluation Services

http://www.insightassessment.com/home.html

Insight Assessment, Course Evaluation Forms

http://www.insightassessment.com/teaching.html

International Institute on Sustainable Development:Research Library

http://www.iisd.org/ic/

The Measurement Group Evaluation Instruments and Tools

http://www.themeasurementgroup.com/mod_list.htm

National Center for Education Statistics

http://nces.ed.gov/

National Center for Health Statistics

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/

National Evaluation Data Services (NEDS): Instruments

http://neds.calib.com/products/download.cfm?TypeID=18

National Institute for Leadership and Institutional Effectiveness

http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/cep/acce/nilie/

NCS Pearson Survey Instruments

http://www.ncspearson.com/survey/index.htm

Non-Profit Organization Self Evaluation Checklist

http://www.ginsler.com/documents/self_evaluation_checklist.pdf

Ohio Mental Health Consumer Outcomes Initiative

http://rhosp029.odn.state.oh.us/initiatives/outcomes/outcomes.html

Ohio Mental Health Consumer Outcomes Initiative: The Ohio Scales

http://rhosp029.odn.state.oh.us/initiatives/outcomes/instros.html

OERL: Online Evaluation Resource Library, SRI

http://oerl.sri.com/

Pro-Ed, Publishers of Standardized Tests

http://www.proedinc.com/index.html

Region III Comprehensive Center, George Washington Univ.

http://ceee.gwu.edu/

SF-8 Health Survey

http://www.sf36.com/tools/sf8.shtml

Survey for Use in Evaluating Dialogue Programs

http://www.westernjustice.org/dialogue_eval_i.htm

Team Management Systems (TMS) Online, Work -based assessment system

http://www.tms.com.au/tms03.html

Tests and Measures in the Social Sciences

http://libraries.uta.edu/helen/test&meas/testmainframe.htm

University of Wisconsin-Extension: Program Development and Evaluation--Instruments

http://www.uwex.edu/ces/pdande/evaluation/evalinstruments.html

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Surveys: Software

Conducting Survey Research by Health Communication Unit, Center for Health Promotion, University of Toronto

http://www.thcu.ca/infoandresources/publications/pdfsurvey5499.pdf

Market Research and Survey Software: Links to Free Resources at ResearchInfo.com

http://www.researchinfo.com/docs/software/index.cfm

NCS Pearson Survey Software

http://www.ncspearson.com/survey/index.htm

Remark Web Survey: Principia Products

http://www.principiaproducts.com/

Response-O-Matic: Free Form Processor for Web Forms

http://www.response-o-matic.com/

Software for Statistical and Social Survey Analysis

http://www.asc.org.uk/Register/index.htm

StatPac Survey Software

http://www.statpac.com/

Survey System

http://www.surveysystem.com/

Web Survey Methodology: Links to Software

http://websm.org/companiesoft.html

Zoomerang Web Surveys

http://www.zoomerang.com/Login/index.zgi

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Surveys: Publications

AEA's List for Surveys

http://www.eval.org/EvaluationLinks/surveylinks.htm

American Statistical Association: Brochures about Survey Research

http://www.amstat.org/sections/srms/whatsurvey.html

Association for Survey Computing

http://www.asc.org.uk/

Conducting Research Surveys via Email and the Web

http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1480/

Email Survey Response Rates: A Review, Sheehan

http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol6/issue2/sheehan.html

Internation Conference on Survey Non-Response 1999

http://www.jpsm.umd.edu/icsn/papers/Index.htm

Measuring and Reporting Sources of Error in Surveys

http://www.fcsm.gov/01papers/SPWP31_final.pdf

Respondent Incentives in Surveys

http://www.science.gmu.edu/~wss/methods/index.html

Survey Design, The Survey System

http://www.surveysystem.com/sdesign.htm

Web Survey Methodolgy: Related Publications

http://websm.org/reltopics.html

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Data Sources and Statistics

CDC Data Warehouse

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products.htm

Child and Family Statistics

http://childstats.gov/

Community Information by Zip Code, CA State U, Northridge

http://library.csun.edu/mfinley/zipstats.html

Council of European Social Science Data Archives

http://www.nsd.uib.no/cessda/

County and City Data Book, U.S. Census Bureau

http://www.census.gov/statab/www/ccdb.html

Demographic and Health Surveys

http://www.measuredhs.com/

Federal Statistical Agencies Homepages

http://members.aol.com/copafs/fedlinks.htm

FedStats: Statistics from U.S. Federal Agencies

http://www.fedstats.gov/

General Social Survey Cumulative Codebook

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu:81/GSS/

GovStats, Oregon State University

http://govinfo.kerr.orst.edu/

International Labor Organization Databases

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/support/lib/dblist.htm

International Statistics, Mansfield University

http://lib.mansfield.edu/intstat.html

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/

National Center for Education Statistics

http://nces.ed.gov/

National Center for Health Statistics

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/

National Center for Health Statistics FastStats

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/Default.htm

President's Economic Statistics Briefing Room

http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/esbr.html

Social Science Data Archives: North America

http://www.nsd.uib.no/cessda/namer.html

Social Science Data on the Net, University of California, San Diego

http://odwin.ucsd.edu/idata/

Sources of International Statistics on the Web, U of Maryland

http://www.lib.umd.edu/MCK/STATS.html

Statistical Abstract of the U.S., U.S. Census Bureau

http://www.census.gov/statab/www/

Statistical Resources on the Web, University of Michigan

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/statsnew.html

UNICEF Statistical Data

http://www.unicef.org/statis/index.html

United Nations Population Information Network

http://www.un.org/popin/

U.S. Census Bureau

http://www.census.gov/

U.S. Census Bureau American FactFinder

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet

U.S. National Center for Health Statistics

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/

World Wide Web of Demography, Netherlands

http://www.nidi.nl/links/nidi6300.html

WWW Virtual Library: Statistics, University of Florida

http://www.stat.ufl.edu/vlib/statistics.html

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Data Analysis and Statistics: Software

AnSWR Analysis Software for Word-based Records

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/software/answr.htm

Association for Survey Computing: Software for Statistical and Social Survey Analysis

http://www.asc.org.uk/Register/index.htm

HyperResearch, ResearchWare

http://www.researchware.com/

Interact Software: Observing Behavior, Mangold Software and Consulting

http://www.mangold.de/english/interact.htm

Interactive Statistical Calculations

http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javastat.html

Market Research and Survey Software: Links to Free Resources at ResearchInfo.com

http://www.researchinfo.com/docs/software/index.cfm

Online Guide to Software for Teaching Statistics

http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/cti/activities/guide/index.html

Power Analysis Worksheet: Calculation of Effect Sizes

http://www.chestnut.org/LI/downloads/ESWK.xls

Qualpage: Resources for Qualitative Research

http://www.ualberta.ca/~jrnorris/qual.html

Qualrus: Intelligent Qualitative Analysis Software

http://www.ideaworks.com/news.shtml

RM Web: Statisticss and Software Links

http://www.aom.pace.edu/rmd/statsoft.html

Sample Size Calculation, Simple Interactive Statistical Analysis

http://home.clara.net/sisa/sampshlp.htm

SampleXS Sample Size Calculator

http://www.myatt.demon.co.uk/samplexs.htm

Simple Interactive Statistical Analysis (SISA)

http://home.clara.net/sisa/

Social Network Analysis, Computer Programs

http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/INSNA/soft_inf.html

SPSS

http://www.spss.com

STATS: Statistical Software for Market Research (Freeware)

http://www.decisionanalyst.com/download.asp

Survey System's Sample Size Calculator

http://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm

Visone: Software for the Visual Analysis of Social Networks

http://www.visone.de/

Visualizing Statistical Concepts

http://www.du.edu/psychology/methods/concepts/index.htm

Web Survey Methodology: Links to Software

http://websm.org/companiesoft.html

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Data Analysis and Statistics: Publications

AEA's List for Qualitative Analysis

http://www.eval.org/EvaluationLinks/QDA.htm

Data Cleaning and Replacement of Missing Values, McDermeit, Funk, and Dennis

http://www.chestnut.org/LI/downloads/training_memos/missing_data_1.pdf

Data Presentation: A Guide to Good Graphics

http://www.science.gmu.edu/~wss/methods/zawitzg.html

Data Presentation: A Guide to Good Tables

http://www.science.gmu.edu/~wss/methods/zawitzt.html

Distributions Used in Statistical Work, Dennis Roberts

http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/papers/statdist2.PDF

Electronic Statistics Textbooks, StatSoft

http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html

Essentials of Survey Research and Analysis: A Workbook for Community Researchers, Ronald J. Polland

http://www.tfn.net/%7Epolland/qbook.html

Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology: Methodology Reports

http://www.fcsm.gov/reports/

Graphical Presentation of Data

http://www.deakin.edu.au/~agoodman/sci101/chap12.html

HyperStat Statistics Textbook and Online Tutorial

http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/

Journal of Statistical Software

http://www.jstatsoft.org/

Multiple Imputation Tutorial

http://www.science.gmu.edu/~wss/methods/index.html#Imputation

Questionnaire Design: Asking Questions with a Purpose, Ellen Taylor-Powell, University of Wisconsin-Extension

http://cf.uwex.edu/ces/pubs/pdf/G3658_2.PDF

Rand Statistics Group

http://www.rand.org/methodology/stat/

Raynald's SPSS Tools

http://pages.infinit.net/rlevesqu/

Research Methods and Statistics Links

http://www.socialpsychology.org/methods.htm

Resources for Presenting Data Graphically, Emil Posavac

http://www.homepages.luc.edu/~eposava/graphics.html

Resources to Help You Learn and Use SAS

http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/sas/default.htm

Resources to Help You Learn and Use SPSS

http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/spss/

RM Web: Statistics and Software Links

http://www.aom.pace.edu/rmd/metlink.html

Statistical Computing Resources

http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/

Statistical Good Practice Guidelines: Informative Presentation of Tables, Graphs, and Statistics

http://www.rdg.ac.uk/ssc/dfid/booklets/toptgs.html

Statistics Software Reviews

http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/cti/activities/reviews/alphabet.html

Units of Analysis, Gerrard Dallal

http://www.tufts.edu/~gdallal/units.htm

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On-Line Evaluation Tools

CSAP's Decision Support System, SAMHSA

http://www.preventiondss.org/

InnoNet Workstation: Online Evaluation and Planning Tools

http://www.innonet.org/workstation/about.cfm

Program Development and Evaluation Training Module, CYFERNet

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/fcs/cemp19/index.shtml

Evaluation Checklists Project, Evaluation Center at WMU

http://www.wmich.edu/evalctr/checklists/

Evaluation Toolkit, Project STAR

http://www.projectstar.org/star/Library_ls/toolkit_ls.html

Expert Review Checklist for Interactive Multimedia

http://mime1.marc.gatech.edu/MM_Tools/ERC.html

Flashlight Program for the Study and Improvement of Educational Uses of Technology

http://www.tltgroup.org/programs/flashlight.html

Four-Fold Youth Development Model: A model for the design and evaluation of youth development curriculum and programs

http://www.four-h.purdue.edu/fourfold/

Interactive Program Evaluation, National Network for Family Resiliency

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/fcs/nnfr/

Monitoring and Evaluation: Online Handbook

http://stone.undp.org/undpweb/eo/evalnet/docstore3/yellowbook/

The TLT Group: Flashlight Toolkit/Workbooks

http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/products.html

Voluntary Sector Public Policy Toolbox

http://www.ginsler.com/html/toolbox.htp

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