Links 2 Research

Comprehensive set of web sites about evaluation and research methods

Free Resources for Program Evaluation and Social Research Methods

http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/

My website offers links to free resources. The focus is on "how-to" do program evaluation and social research: surveys, focus groups, sampling, interviews, and other methods. There are also links to sites with information about how to do statistics, how to present data, and links to sites with subject areas evaluators and social researchers need to know, like about organizations and social psychology. This site also links to free online training classes, and videos about research methods and evaluation. Finally, this site has the basic guides to evaluation.

The Evaluation Portal

http://www.evaluation.lars-balzer.name/

Lars Balzer's website also links to a whole bunch of free online resources. Unlike my site, the

Evaluation Portal also lists associations and societies, businesses, institutions, and communication sites, like blogs and email lists. The Evaluation Portal also has a calendar, listing evaluation related events.

The WWW Virtual Library: Evaluation

http://www.policy-evaluation.org/

Alfio Cerami's website links to mailing lists, societies and associations, organizations, journals, and research centers. Not everything listed on the website is free. For example, he links to the American Journal of Evaluation, a journal everyone should know about, but it isn't free.

Online Resources

http://www.eval.org/resources.asp

The American Evaluation Association's site has links to a wide variety of resources including many of those in the sites above. Some links not in the sites above are to AEA members who are available for evaluation consulting or to serve on evaluation teams, links to Collections of Instruments and Tools, which are compilations of tools and instruments of use to evaluators, and a list of universities which offer graduate-level programs and/or certificates in evaluation.

The above are the most comprehensive. Some additional sites are:

CDC's Other Evaluation Resources

http://www.cdc.gov/eval/resources/index.htm

This site is kind of a brief version of the others. The CDC site lists a number of the major resources in various areas like journals or organizations.

Cyfernet's site

http://www.cyfernet.org/index.php?c=6

also lists a variety of resources, but perhaps a little more difficult to find the type of resources you want.

Betty C. Jung's page on evaluation resources

http://www.bettycjung.net/Evaluation.htm

also lists many resources, all on one page.