Helpful Websites
American Evaluation Association
The American Evaluation Association is an international professional association of evaluators devoted to the application and exploration of program evaluation, technology, and many other forms of evaluation. Their focus includes assessing the strengths and weaknesses of programs, policies, personnel, products, and organizations to improve their effectiveness. The Website provides information regarding evaluation-related publications, training, software, and other Websites.
American Statistical Association
The American Statistical Association is a scientific and educational society with a mission to promote excellence in the application of statistical science across the wealth of human endeavor. The association's Website is the nation's leading site for providing resources to statisticians and users of statistics and improving statistics education. The Website provides a wealth of statistics-related information regarding training and education, meetings, publications,
The Implementation Guide
The Electronic Prevention Community Organizer (ePrevco) is an online resource designed to help individuals implement environmental approaches to substance abuse prevention. Within ePrevco is an online Implementation Guide through which individuals can learn the essential steps required to implement and evaluate interventions. For example, it teaches how to collect baseline problem and needs assessment data, conduct assessment tasks, implement the intervention, evaluate intervention effectiveness, and document project activities.
Government Accounting Office
The United States Government Accounting Office Website has a section called "Special Publications: Evaluation Research and Methodology." This section has a wealth of downloadable publications on case study evaluations, designing evaluations, prospective evaluation methods, quantitative data analysis, and using structured interviewing techniques.
The Research Assistant
The Research Assistant is a comprehensive online resource for tips, tools, and information to navigate the world of research, with a special focus on new and minority drug abuse researchers. Developed by Danya International, the Research Assistant is designed to help individuals collect data, assemble a research proposal team, choose a statistical method, and select a journal for publishing an article.
The National Center for Research Resources
The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) is a component of the National Institutes of Health. NCRR supports primary research to create and develop critical resources, models, and technologies. NCRR funding provides researchers with access to diverse instrumentation, technologies, basic and clinical research facilities, animal models, genetic stocks, biomaterials, and more. These resources enable scientific advances in biomedicine that lead to lifesaving drugs, devices, and therapies.
The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
A service of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the clearinghouse offers access to numerous substance-related research studies. Choose the "Research" link or the "Audience" menu and choose "Researchers" to review the offerings.
The Qualitative Report
The Qualitative Report is an online journal devoted to the discussion of and about qualitative, critical, action, and collaborative inquiry and research. In addition to the journal, the Website includes links to many research Websites, other research journals, and numerous online research documents.
Research Methods in the Social Sciences: An Internet Resource List
This impressive collection of links, part of the University of Miami libraries, provides valuable links to information regarding general research methods, test and measures, survey methods, quantitative research primers, quantitative research calculators, quantitative research dictionaries, quantitative datasets, quantitative software, qualitative research, and research and writing.
Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research
This Website provides links to a variety of methods in evaluation and social research, such as surveys, focus groups, sampling, and interviews. This information includes organizations, methods, presentation of statistical data, and free statistics software.
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