GENERAL METHODS, and links that don't fit elsewhere
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Also see the books, manual, guides section.  Some of the links are to sources that have general methods.  For example, see the Knowledge Base link, and other links.


"What Constitutes Credible Evidence in Evaluation and Applied Research?"   http://www.cgu.edu/pages/4085.asp   Debates on "the realities of using randomized control trials (RCTs), and the need for serious academic scholarship to inform evaluation."  Also see videos of presentations

Also from CGU   "Applying the Science of Psychology & Evaluation Across the Globe"   http://www.cgu.edu/pages/154.asp   links to 'credible evidence' and other interesting material.


Organizations


http://mande.co.uk/   "A news service focusing on developments in monitoring and evaluation methods relevant to development projects with social development objectives." Has announcements of conferences, jobs, books.  Also, some papers are on the Mande site, for example, Networks section, The Evaluation of Networks part has "Evaluating International Social Change Networks: A Conceptual Framework for a Participatory Approach." Ricardo Wilson-Grau and Martha Nunez

Their email list   http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MandENEWS/   talk to other evaluators about evaluating international aid.


Methodology.co.uk   http://www.methodspace.com/   "provides a free resource to researchers, students and university teachers who are interested in learning more about anything to do with research methods." At present (March 11, 2008), it seems to still be in a state of development, but it could in the future have a great deal of resources. This is from Sage. One of the resources they provide is free access to an article of the month from one of their journals.


Market Research Portal   http://www.marketresearchworld.net/index.php   a LOT of useful methods sections, articles about market research processes, focus groups, survey methods, sampling, lots more.


Institute for Public Relations  http://www.instituteforpr.org/topic/research-methods/   research methods papers. Some papers include A New Model for Media Content Analysis, Fun Things To Do With Measurement, Guidelines for Formative and Evaluative Research in Public Affairs and Guidelines For Measuring Relationships in Public Relations.


Evaluation web service of the Treasury Board Secretariat.   http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/eval/eval_e.asp   see their resources page for a whole bunch of stuff about how to develop evaluation units, review quality of evaluation, then see their research page for this Conference on Cost-Effectiveness in Evaluation.

Business and industry evaluation tig   http://www.e-valuate-it.com/aea-bi-tig/   has some conference papers on line from several conference. One from the 2001 conference is mainstreaming evaluations in corporate environments.  One from the 2005 is Building Evaluation Capacity.


Evaluation Checklist Project   http://www.wmich.edu/evalctr/checklists/   checklists on evaluation.


United States Foreign Assistance evaluation material   https://communities.usaidallnet.gov/fa/node/1433   whole bunch of misc stuff, how to do, background, etc.


Issuelab.org   http://www.issuelab.org/home   This organization links to reports from non profits. Some of the reports are
    State of Evaluation 2010: Evaluation Practice and Capacity in the Nonprofit Sector  
    http://www.issuelab.org/research/state_of_evaluation_2010_evaluation_practice_and_capacity_in_the_nonprofit_sector  
    Evaluating Workforce Programs: A Guide to What Policymakers Need to Know to Structure Effective, User-Friendly Evaluations
    http://www.issuelab.org/research/evaluating_workforce_programs_a_guide_to_what_policymakers_need_to_know_to_structure_effective_user_friendly_evaluations  
    Are We There Yet? A Communications Evaluation Guide      http://www.issuelab.org/research/are_we_there_yet_a_communications_evaluation_guide  
    Demystifying Outcome Measurement in Community Development   http://www.issuelab.org/research/demystifying_outcome_measurement_in_community_development  
    Guidelines for Evaluating Nonprofit Communications Efforts   http://www.issuelab.org/research/guidelines_for_evaluating_nonprofit_communications_efforts  

People 

Bob Williams home page   http://users.actrix.co.nz/bobwill/   See the free resources page for some interesting writings, works in progress and links, such as TEN THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT EVALUATION, and others.



Specific topics


Statistical literacy

International Statistical Literacy Project    http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/islp/home    Aid in the development of statistical literacy around the world.


Statistical Literacy   http://www.statlit.org/   studies summary statistics used in everyday arguments.  Statistical literacy helps people read and interpret numbers in graphs, tables, statements and studies.


Other


Statistical Methods for Rater Agreement   http://www.john-uebersax.com/stat/agree.htm   "This site is a resource for the analysis of agreement among raters, diagnostic tests, observers, judges or experts. It contains background discussion on different methods, examples, references, software, and information on recent methodological developments."  


How to present negative results   http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~lilleys/tips.html   "How to Deliver Negative Evaluation Results Constructively.  The following pointers are a summary of the suggestions provided by members of Evaltalk, the American Evaluation Association Discussion List in June 2002. These suggestions are based on the assumptions that the primary purpose of evaluation is to improve programs or initiatives, and that people are more open to learning and change when they are not feeling threatened."  This is prepared by Susan Lilley
 

Robert Hanneman's free text on social network analysis   http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~hanneman/
 

Evaluation of information sources   http://www.vuw.ac.nz/staff/alastair_smith/evaln/evaln.htm    links to web sites that have info on how to evaluate web sites. 
 

Facilitated Systems has an introduction to system dynamics   http://facilitatedsystems.com/pubs.html    see the article "Applying System Dynamics to Business: An Expense Management Example"
 

A plea for practical evaluation   http://www.mande.co.uk/archives/199701000.htm   an essay by George Balch and Sharyn Sutton about issues and problems of practical evaluation.


Just Plain Data Analysis: Companion Website   http://lilt.ilstu.edu/jpda/   companion to a book, but has some of the topics here, a little bit about Reversing causal direction, and Ecological Fallacy, and the Hawthorne effect.




US Dept of Energy has this   http://www1.eere.energy.gov/ba/pba/program_evaluation/   program evaluation from another point of view.


Evaluation is an every day activity   http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/programevaluation/   evaluation blog by Molly Engle



Email lists:  I don't list any because others have comprehensive lists.  See

http://www.sociolog.com/     click on links and then mailing lists. Some good lists are Evaltalk, methods and SRMS. 


American Evaluation Association list of email lists   http://www.eval.org/Resources/Listservs.asp   including evaltalk and others..


Real World Evaluation   http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RealWorldEval/   Share ideas for conducting evaluations of international development projects under less than ideal conditions.
This is one email list.

 

Misc


OnLinePyschologyDegrees.com   http://www.onlinepsychologydegrees.com/articles-and-resources/   has a page of articles and resources about studying psychology, and will be adding more. They also link to all psychology programs in the US.


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