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List of URLs for Social Work
RESEARCH AND MEASUREMENT
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- The Action Evaluation Project
The ARIA Group is a conflict-resolution consulting firm based in Yellow Springs, Ohio with Associates around the world. It assists organizational and community leaders to creatively transform deep and destructive conflict. The ARIA Group is associated with The Action Evaluation Project, which has developed a new methodology for participatory and empowering evaluation. The site is dedicated to demonstrating this new evaluation methodology.
- Alcoholism Treatment Assessment Instruments
Information on the availability of a variety of instruments for adolescents and adults to be used in screening, diagnosis, assessment of drinking behavior, treatment planning, treatment and process assessment, and outcome evaluation.
- AlphaLogic
Presents the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire (PDQ-4), a user-friendly interactive program that determines the presence of personality disorders consistent with the DSM-IV, Axis II.
- American Evaluation Association
An international professional association of evaluators devoted to the application and exploration of program evaluation, personnel evaluation, technology, and other forms of evaluation.
- American FactFinder
In 1996, the US Census undertook a comprehensive multi-year development effort to build a data dissemination system. American FactFinder uses high performance computing systems to enable users to select data tabulations and maps from data sets in the system.
- American Institutes for Research
AIR is an independent, not-for-profit corporation that performs basic and applied research, provides technical support, and conducts analyses in the behavioral and social sciences.
- American Psychological Association Science Directorate: Testing and Assessment
American Psychological Association provides answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the selection and use of psychological tests.
- American Sociological Association Section on Methods
Provides information about the activities of the section.
- ANU---Coombsweb
This archive site was established to act as an electronic repository of the social science and humanities papers, bibliographies, directories, theses abstracts and other high-grade research material produced (or deposited) at the Research Schools of Social Sciences and Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
- Bioethics Resources on the Web
An excellent list of resources about human subjects research and Institutional Review Boards from the National Institutes for Health.
- Bureau of Justice Assistance Evaluation Web Site
The Bureau of Justice Assistance is committed to the importance of program evaluation and to developing and enhancing evaluation capabilities at State and local levels. This Web site is designed to provide State Administrative Agency staff, criminal justice planners, researchers and evaluators, as well as local practitioners with a variety of resources for evaluating criminal justice programs.
- Buros Institute of Mental Measurements
Comprehensive site providing reviews of tests, links to important resources for testing, and standards for utilization of tests.
- Center for Demography and Ecology
CDE is a multi-disciplinary faculty research cooperative for social scientific demographic research whose membership includes sociologists, rural sociologists, economists, and historians.
- Center for Social Research Methods
This Web site, developed by Bill Trochim at Cornell, is intended for people involved in applied social research and evaluation. There are many links to other locations on the Web that deal in applied social research methods, previously published and unpublished papers, detailed examples of current research projects, useful tools for researchers (like a guide to selecting a statistical analysis), an extensive online textbook, a bulletin board for discussions, and more.
- Cochrane Collaboration
Facilitates the creative, review, maintenance and dissemination of systematic overviews of the effects of health care.
- Community of Science
The mission of the Community of Science (COS) is to provide rapid, easy-to-use information about scientists and the funding of science. The Community of Science is a global registry designed to provide accurate, timely, easy-to-access information about what new funding opportunities exist, and who is working on what subject, and where.
- Content Analysis Resources
Resources to assist researchers utilizing content analysis strategies, including reviews of publications, bibliographies, and software.
- Corporate Grantmakers on the Internet
Annotated listing of interests and geographic limitations of scores of company-sponsored private foundations and direct corporate giving programs.
- CSAC Ethnographics Gallery Software Archives
Shareware statistics program, SchoolStatTM. Graphic display of probability distributions, spread sheet, and a variety of parametric and nonparametric statistics.
- ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
Information pertaining to educational and psychological testing and learning theories. Provides balanced information concerning educational assessment and resources to encourage responsible test use.
- Funding Institutions---Foundations
A listing of foundations from Johns Hopkins University.
- Geriatric Depression Scale
Scale measuring depression in elderly subjects.
- Glossary of Selected Social Science Computing and Social Science Terms
Covers terms that may be useful in managing data collections and providing basic data services.
- Idea Works, Inc.
An information technology company specializing in the development and publication of expert systems for business, industry, research, and human services. Services include training, consulting, development, publication, and contract services.
- The Illinois Researcher Information Service (IRIS)
The Illinois Researcher Information Service (IRIS) is a unit of the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign. The IRIS office compiles the IRIS database of funding opportunities. The office also maintains a library of publications (informational brochures, application guidelines, and annual reports) from over 2,000 funding agencies.
- Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research
IASWR was founded in 1993 by five national professional organizations that represent the social work practice and education communities. In 2000, a new social work research organization became a sponsor. A freestanding, not-for-profit organization, IASWR serves the research needs of the entire social work profession. Sponsoring organizations are represented on the Board of Directors of IASWR and contribute annually to its financial support. IASWR promotes social work research conducted under the auspices of other academic and professional organizations. IASWR does not conduct or fund social work research directly, except in surveys on behalf of the profession which relate to fulfilling Institute goals.
- Institute for Social Research
Information about the research facility at the University of Michigan. Includes the Survey Research Center, the Research Center for Group Dynamics, and the Center for Political Studies.
- Internal Validity Tutorial
This self-instructional tutorial on internal validity that teaches students to recognize and analyze flaws in the design of clinical experiments.
- International Index of Social Progress
Measures economic development, social and political conditions, and the ability of nations to produce welfare services for their citizens.
- Internet Resources for Institutional Research
Links to assist institutional researchers and faculty and students in higher education in navigating the Internet.
- Methods Resources
Research methods resources from the College of Education at Arizona State University.
- National Institutes of Health Funding Opportunities
Information about NIH grant and fellowship programs, applying for a grant or fellowship, policy changes, administrative responsibilities of awardees, the CRISP database, and the numbers and characteristics of awards made by the NIH.
- On Being a Scientist: Responsible Conduct in Research
An online publication of the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy of the National Academy of Sciences.
- OpinionMeter
Interactive fully-automated polling machine to measure customer satisfaction.
- Power Analysis
Statistical considerations for determining sample size, power, and the minimal detectable difference in clinical trials and scientific experiments.
- Power Calculator
Web-based software to determine statistical power.
- Private Foundations on the Internet
Annotated listing detailing interests and geographical limitations of hundreds of private foundations.
- ProGAMMA: Social Science Information Technology
Information Technology for the Social and Behavioral sciences (SSIT)
- Psychological Maltreatment of Women Inventory
Created by Richard Tolman at University of Michigan to investigate woman abuse.
- Qualitative Methods (QualPage)
Resources for qualitative researchers.
- RAND
Through research and analysis, RAND assists public policymakers at all levels, private sector leaders in many industries, and the public at large in efforts to strengthen the nation's economy, maintain its security, and improve its quality of life.
- REGARD
REGARD is a searchable bibliographic database containing in-depth information on UK social science research. It is wholly funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) with hardware support from Sun Microsystems.
- Research for a New Age
Discusses various aspects of databased decision making for care decisions with geriatric patients.
- Russell Sage Foundation
The principal American foundation devoted exclusively to research in the social sciences, the Foundation is a research center, a funding source for studies by scholars at other academic and research institutions, and an active member of the nation's social science community.
- Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG)
The Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law. It is part of the UK Resource Discovery Network.
- Social Science Research Center
The SSRC at Mississippi State University makes available many of their research reports on this site.
- Society for Judgment and Decision-Making
The Society for Judgment and Decision Making is an interdisciplinary organization dedicated to the study of normative, descriptive, and prescriptive theories of decision.
- StatCenter
StatCenter is a set of diverse resources for teaching and learning introductory statistics over the web. It is not a stand-alone course that teaches statistics and delivers credit. It is meant to support teachers and students with already-existing classes.
- StatLib
StatLib is a system for distributing statistical software, datasets, and information by email, FTP, and WWW. It is a service of the Carnegie Mellon University Statistics Department.
- Statistical Resources on the Internet
It is provided as a starting point for locating statistics-related information on the World Wide Web.
- Statistical Software Support
Part of the Research Methods Web site at the Academy of Management.
- The Statistics Home Page
This Electronic Statistical Textbook offers training in the understanding and application of statistics. The material was developed based on many years of teaching undergraduate and graduate statistics courses and covers a wide variety of applications, including laboratory research, business statistics and forecasting, social science statistics and survey research, data mining, engineering and quality control applications.
- Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory
Substance abuse screening from Consultation, Education, and Research Associates.
- University Center for Urban and Social Research
Established at University of Pittsburgh to carry out basic and applied social science research, the UCSUR is a focal point for collaborative interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to social science and policy issues.
- Web Resources for Educational Research and Evaluation
An excellent set of links, most of which are equally applicable to social work research and evaluation, maintained by David Fetterman.
- The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Statistics
A cornucopia of links related to statistics.
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