Janet R. James


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  American Educational Research Association 
(AERA) is concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results.

AERA is the most prominent international professional organization with the primary goal of advancing educational research and its practical application.  www.aera.net
 



Campbell Collaboration (C2) is a non-profit organization that aims to help people make well-informed decisions about the effects of interventions in the social, behavioral and educational arenas.  It is an international organization.  http://www.campbellcollaboration.org/index.html

Data and Measurement Resources

 Data levels and measurement  http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/PA765/datalevl.htm

 Scales and Indexes  http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/308/308lect05.htm

 Likert Scale  http://www.answers.com/topic/likert-scale

SPSS for Windows – a tutorial

Beginners step by step tutorial http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/courses/c1/spss/toc.htm

Pearson Correlation Co-efficient, t-tests http://academic.uofs.edu/department/psych/methods/cannon99/spssmain.html

 

Dr. John W. Collins, Jr.
College of Education & Human Services
Department of Education Leadership, Management and Policy

Dr. John W. Collins web site
Cybernetic Research online course with resources.  Course Objective:  To become proficient with the use of the technology to conduct educational research for their educational administration duties and responsibilities.   http://pirate.shu.edu/~collinjo/edas7770/edas7770.htm




EBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system accessible via the Internet. It offers a variety of proprietary full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers. 
The comprehensive databases range from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases for public, academic, medical, corporate and school libraries.

TO USE:
(1) For Full-Text ERIC Documents login at at the EBSCO host ERIC Site: ERIC    
(2)  For off-campus use, your "Account Name" is: s8475574
(3)  Your "Password" is: setonhall 
(4) Recommended selection: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals
 http://search.epnet.com/login.asp?profile=ase   
 

Educational Resource Informational Center (ERIC)
  http://www.eric.ed.gov  for Abstracts
 

Educational Resource Informational Center (ERIC)

[now also hosted on the EBSCO site for FULL TEXT documents]

TO USE for Full-text ERIC documents:
(1)  login at at the EBSCO host ERIC Site: ERIC    
(2)  For off-campus use, your "Account Name" is: s8475574
(3)  Your "Password" is: setonhall 
(4) Then select ERIC
 http://search.epnet.com  
 

Fair Test   www.fairtest.org/index.htm
Great resource re. testing K-12 and at the university level. Works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial

Focus Groups
Focus groups are extremely popular, especially in marketing research but also in the social sciences in general. There are four main objectives of focus groups: to generate ideas; to understand vocabulary; to reveal needs, motives, perceptions and attitudes; and to understand findings from quantitative studies.  For focus group overview, visit the site  http://www.socresonline.org.uk/2/1/6.html


Institute for Education Sciences (IES): 
The mission of IES is to expand knowledge and provide information on the condition of education, practices that improve academic achievement, and the effectiveness of Federal and other education programs.  Its goal is the transformation of education into an evidence-based field in which decision makers routinely seek out the best available research and data before adopting programs or practices that will affect significant numbers of students.   http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ies/index.html?exp=0

Info USA http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/stats.htm 
U.S. Statistics in Brief - part 1 U.S. Census Bureau. A summary of population and vital statistics for 1990-2002. (Be sure to visit the hyperlink entitled Education Statistics.) 
 
Library of Congress World Wide Web The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with nearly 128 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 29 million books and other printed materials, 2.7 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps, and 57 million manuscripts.  The Library's mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations.

Literature Review 

METHODOLOGY & STATISICS (Socio-Site)  Information on Qualitative Data Analysis Software also consider using the internet for quantitative survey research

National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) 
The Governing Board is an independent, bipartisan group whose members include governors, state legislators, local and state school officials, educators, business representatives, and members of the general public. Congress created the 26-member Governing Board in 1988 to set policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) -- commonly known as the "The Nation's Report Card."  http://www.nagb.org

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
 NCES is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education in the USA and other nations.   http://nces.ed.gov 
 
 

Qualitative Research Web Sites Ronald J. Chenail (2003)  www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/web.html   [12 Dec 03] General You really might want to look at this site! It lists hundreds of web sites dealing with qualitative research. Even if you don't go to any of them, you will be amazed at the topics and sheer number of varied articles dealing with this type of research.

QUALITATIVE  REPORT - Qualitative Research Web Sites, An online journal dedicated to qualitative research since 1990
Questionaire & Survey Design:  

http://www.statpac.com/surveys/  (scroll down navigate hyper-linked chart)
http://www.statcan.ca/english/edu/power/ch2/questionnaires/questionnaires.htm

School Management Surveys www.asbointl.org/Recognition/index.asp?s=0&bid=1070 
ASBO International offers FREE self-assessments to help you review your school management practices, discover your strengths, and identify opportunities for professional development. Choose from 7 skill sets.  

Organizational Assessment Surveys www.rollins.edu/communication/wschmidt/organizational.htm
*Use the Way Back Machine to access this (see link posted in Webliography for it) These organizational assessments can assist in identifying personal communication competencies necessary for effectiveness in the workplace. They focus on leadership, management style, risk-taking, negotiation, interviewing skills, coping with conflict, and workplace stress. Taken together, they can serve as a guide for developing needed habits for the changing world of work. 

 
Research Methods Knowledge Base, by W.M. Trochim available as an online text
Trochin, W.M. (1999). The Research Methods Knowledge Base (Second Edition).

[On-line] Available:  http://socialresearchmethods.net/kb/ 
Information regarding navigating the online text may be found at:  http://socialresearchmethods.net/kb/navigating.php



Regional Educational Laboratories:
The nation's network of support for research-based school reform  A network of 10 Regional Educational Laboratories, serving geographic regions that span the nation, works to ensure that those involved in educational improvement at the local, state, and regional levels have access to the best available information from research and practice. This Web site is one of many ways that the network reaches out to make that information accessible.
www.relnetwork.org
 
Selecting A Topic for Research


Seton Hall Library
The Seton Hall Library (http://library.shu.edu) is available online as well as on-campus.  Should you want to request a periodical or article that you’ve come across that SHU does NOT have in their database submit an online request using this link (copy & paste it)  http://library.shu.edu/forms/refquest.htm  
   
US Census Bureau 
Good examples of descriptive research are the studies done by the census bureau . Here the government is simply interested in describing how many people are in the U.S. How many may be white, African- American, Hispanic, American Indian or Asian Pacific.


Way Back Machine www.archive.org/web/web.php
Have a URL that is no longer active? Find and retrieve Internet sources and links that appear to be no longer current or available with the Way Back Machine. The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, this site provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. (Have the old link to paste into their search browser.)  


What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) gathers studies of the effectiveness of educational interventions (programs, products, practices, and policies). We review the studies that have the strongest design, and report on the strengths and weaknesses of those studies against the WWC Evidence Standards so that you know what the best scientific evidence has to say.  http://www.w-w-c.org

JR James
Last update:  01/17/2007