Links
The following links are categorized within three types, including organizations, print, and RESOURCES.
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| Annenberg
Institute for School Reform (www.annenberginstitute.org) Tools for Accountability Project, a product of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform. The mission of the Tools for Accountability Project is to collect, analyze, and disseminate practices and strategies ("tools") that are being used continuous improvement and shared accountability with the community. |
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| Best
Practices Database (www.bestpractices.org) This searchable database contains over 2,650 proven solutions to the common social, economic and environmental problems of an urbanizing world. It demonstrates the practical ways in which communities, governments and the private sector are working together to eradicate poverty, provide shelter, protect the environment and support economic development. |
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| Bill
Trochim's Center for Social Research Methods (www.socialresearchmethods.net) This website is for people involved in applied social research and evaluation. The Knowledge Base is an online hypertext textbook on applied social research methods that covers everything you want to know about defining a research question, sampling, measurement, research design and data analysis. Selecting Statistics is an online statistical advisor! Answer the questions and it will lead you to an appropriate statistical test for your data. |
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| CDC
EZ-Text (www.cdc.gov/hiv/software/ez-text.htm) CDC EZ-Text is a qualitative software program developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help researchers create, manage, and analyze semi-structured qualitative databases. |
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| Census
Bureau (www.census.gov/index.html) This site provides online access to census information |
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| Courses
for Evaluators (www.EvaluatorsInstitute.com) The Evaluators' Institute offers short-term professional development courses in various locations for practicing evaluators. Check their website for classes and certificate programs, dates, and class locations. |
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| Evaluation
Portal (www.evaluation.lars-balzer.name/links/societies-groups/usa) Find valuable information about evaluation. |
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| Harvard
Family Research Project (www.gse.harvard.edu/~hfrp) Harvard Family Research Project conducts research about programs and policies that serve children and families throughout the United States. The Evaluation Exchange is an interactive forum for the exchange of ideas, lessons, and practices in the evaluation of family support and community development programs, promoting discussion among persons from a variety of organizational affiliations and viewpoints. |
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| Innovation
Network Inc. (www.innonet.org) InnoNet is a 501(c) 3 organization dedicated to helping small to medium-sized nonprofit organizations successfully meet their missions. InnoNet has two services to meet this end: a search service to find model programs and an evaluation service that guides agencies through a planning and evaluation process. |
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| International
Development Research Centre (www.idrc.ca/evaluation) The Evaluation Unit is housed within IDRC's Corporate Services Branch and fulfills four primary roles for the Centre: coordinate strategic evaluations; develop tools and methodologies for monitoring and evaluation; build capacity for monitoring and evaluation within the Centre as well as with Centre partners; and provide technical assistance. |
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| Outcome
Measurement Resource Network (www.liveunited.org/outcomes/index.cfm) United Way of America's newly renovated Outcome Measurement Resource Network |
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| Paired Comparison Tool (www.ssi.nrcs.usda.gov/SSIEnvPsy/nrcs/paircomp.html) The U.S. Department of Agriculture's interactive Paired Comparison program. This program was originally designed by George Peterson of the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station as a research tool for exploring how people value private and public goods. |
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| Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research (http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods) 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. |
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| Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) (www.ssri.psu.edu/) This website promotes interdisciplinary research that addresses complex national and international social issues and critical social needs. SSRI fosters communication and collaboration across the social sciences, enhances interdisciplinary networking and provides research consultation, support & accessible research services. |
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| The World Bank Operations Evaluations Department (www.worldbank.org/oed) The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) is an independent unit within the World Bank; it reports directly to the Bank's Board of Executive Directors. IEG assesses what works, and what does not; how a borrower plans to run and maintain a project; and the lasting contribution of the Bank to a country's overall development. It also identifies and disseminates the lessons learned from experience and by framing recommendations drawn from evaluation findings |
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| User-Friendly Handbook for Mixed Method Evaluations (www.nsf.gov/pubs/1997/nsf97153/start.htm) This handbook is aimed at users who need practical rather than technically sophisticated advice about evaluation methodology. |
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