4900 Research and Evaluation

SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS

 

This site will be used to post handouts and related material.  Many of these items or links provide examples to help you understand and practice the ideas discussed in class.

 

Syllabus Spring ’04 (Stephen Maynard)

PowerPoint handout for Questionnaires (1/27): Patience: this is a 1.5 MB Word file so it might take a moment to open. However it is only 6 pages long and will print easily.

Supportive Material and Exercises       

   UGA academic honesty

   APA citation guidelines

   UGA IRB guidelines

        “What criteria does Board use..”

        Application for Approval

            (open top application link)

       Student IRB form

 

QUESTIONNAIRES / SURVEY RESEARCH

National Opinion Research Center explanation of their survey procedure

Handout: Asking questions about sensitive topics

Survey research links

Web-based questionnaire examples

References for questionnaire design

 

SECONDARY DATA ON WWW

Handout listing some relevant sites as examples of available online data

 

SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS

Standardized testing

Basic guides to:

            Basic guide to evaluation

            Basic guide to questionnaires

            Basic guide to interviews

            Basic guide to focus groups

 

Project Star Workbook

 

For further reference

NSF HANDBOOK (pdf files)

            Ch 1 and 2: Planning evaluations

            Ch 3: Overview of methods

            Ch 4: Writing reports

            Ch 5: Examples

 

Example: Healthy People 2010

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS HANDOUTS

Sources of error

Figure: MPO Program Outcome Model

 

STATISTICS

Interpreting Statistics, a handout that

summarizes some main points about

statistics

     Word version

     RTF version

 

Intro to Statistics with SPSS, a

step-by-step discussion with examples

     Word version     

     RTF version

 

ETHICS

ANZALS –Ethics in Research            

practice examples of ethics scenarios

 

 

 

NOTE: Material listed below is from a previous semester 

 

Detailed description of grading for

       the group projects  

  

  Class Questionnaire

   Make 10 copies; select a sample

   of students to fill them out       

 

  SPSS Assignment

     Word version

     RTF version

 

  Instructions for SPSS data entry

   This is NOT the handout for   

   analyzing the data; see below  

 

   Initial description of program

   evaluation assignment

 

   Instructions and Worksheet for  

   program evaluation assignment

        Word version of worksheet

        RTF version of worksheet