Resources for Writers and Researchers

Added September 5, 2002

Research Reports from the National Research & Development Centers  provides links to 600+ research reports on education issues from 12 national research & development centers funded by OERI. Reports are often available here before appearing in print. URL: http://research.cse.ucla.edu/

The Online Books Page URL: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/   The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all.

Major parts of the site include:

• An index of thousands of online books freely readable on the Internet

• Pointers to significant directories and archives of online texts

• Special exhibits of particularly interesting classes of online books

• Information on how readers can help support the growth of online books

Who's Responsible, and Who Supports It

The Online Books Page was founded, and is edited, by John Mark Ockerbloom, He is a digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. He is solely responsible for the content of the site. The site is hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Library, who provides the server, disk space, and network bandwidth for the site. They also employ the editor, and support him in his various digital library activities (of which this is but one). The online books listed on this page have been authored, placed online, and hosted, by a wide variety of individuals and groups throughout the world (and throughout history!).

Added January 11, 2002

Valle Verde Library Research Tips URL: http://www.epcc.edu/vvlib/researchtips.htm Site contains several helpful tools and guides, including links to other very useful research and writing tools.

Added May 15, 2001
CART. URL: http://cart.rmcdenver.com/ The Compendium of Assessment and Research Tools (CART) is a database that provides information on instruments that measure attributes associated with youth development programs. CART includes descriptions of research instruments, tools, rubrics, and guides and is intended to assist those who have an interest in studying the effectiveness of service-learning, safe and drug-free schools and communities, and other school-based youth development activities. When you search the CART database, you can locate research tools that address an area of focus you are interested in studying. You will find a brief description of the instruments, the target population for the instrument, contact information for acquiring the instrument, other parameters that should guide its use. CART is not intended to be exhaustive of all instruments appropriate for studying youth development outcomes, nor is it intended to provide a judgment about which tool would be best for a specific study. Support for assembling this compendium of research instruments was supported by The Star Center and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Learning In Deed Initiative.

Added April 25, 2001
Online Dictionary Net. URL: http://www.online-dictionary.net This website links to English language dictionaries, as well as translating dictiionaries for Spanish, Latin, German, Japanese, Hebrew, Chinese, and other tongues. There are also links to legal glossaries, medical terms, sign language, scientific terms, and computer-related words. There's even a rhyming dictionary and a Bible dictionary. As dof 4-25-01 there were 36 dictionaries online.

Added March 6, 2001
402 Citations Questioning the Indiscriminate Use of Null Hypothesis Significance Tests
in Observational Studies. Compiled by Bill Thompson: thompson@uark.edu (updated 2/26/01) URL: http://biology.uark.edu/Coop/thompson5.html "In 1997, I compiled a list of articles, books, and book chapters that questioned the widespread use of null hypothesis significance tests (a.k.a. null hypothesis tests, significance tests) in scientific research. My goal was to provide those unfamiliar with this debate with a list of citations that pointed out the myriad of problems associated with the indiscriminate use of null hypothesis tests. For parity, I also compiled a list of references that supported, at least to a limited extent, the use of null hypothesis tests."

Added December 4, 2000
Online Dictionaries, Glossaries and Encyclopedias - 101 URL: http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/hyperref.html
This site provides an annotated listing of dictionaries, glossaries and encyclopedias that have some sort of version online or, if you will, a glossary of glossaries. As of 12-4-00, the list contained 163 dictionaries and 443 glossaries.

Added October 2, 2000
National Research & Development Centers URL: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/ResCtr.htm At his site, one may search any or all of National Research & Development Center web sites. To address nationally significant problems and issues in education, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement, through its five National Institutes, supports university-based national educational research and development centers. The centers address specific topics such as early childhood development and learning, student learning and achievement , cultural and linguistic diversity and second language learning, postsecondary improvement, adult learning, and education policy. In addition, each center has collaborating partners, and many work with elementary and secondary schools as well as postsecondary institutions. Centers may also be contacted directly for a catalog of their publications and services. Their addresses and urls are found on the page referenced above.

Added September 1, 2000
Council for Exceptional Children's Division for Career Development and Transition 2000-2001 Officers and Committee Chairs To view this list, click here.

Added August 1, 2000
2000-01 National Association of Vocational Education Special Needs Personnel [NAVESNP] application. To view the application in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format, click here.

Added July 26, 2000
Publishing Educational Research--Guidelines and Tips. URL: http://www.aera.net/epubs/howtopub/index.htm Compiled by Kay Uchiyama & Genet Kozik-Rosabal, University of Colorado, Boulder under the mentorship of Hilda Borko, University of Colorado, Boulder,
Fall, 1999, this publication includes the following:
    Introduction & Acknowledgements
    Chapter 1 - Writing for Publication
    Chapter 2 - Manuscript Review and Decision Process
    Chapter 3 - Criteria for Judging Manuscripts
    Chapter 4 - Ethics & Etiquette
    Chapter 5 - Ideas and Support for Junior Faculty
    Chapter 6 - Ideas and Support for Graduate Students
    Chapter 7 - Participating in the Culture of Publishing
    Chapter 8 - Choosing a Journal
    Chapter 9 - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
    Bibliography - References & Additional Resources

Added July 25, 2000
Purdue's Online Writing Lab. URL: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

Updated June 15, 2000
NAVESNP has a new web page!! Its URL is http://www.navesnp.org. Check it out!

Added June 6, 2000
Scholarly Journals on the Web from the University of Houston. URL: http://info.lib.uh.edu/wj/webjour.htm This directory provides links to established Web-based scholarly journals that offer access to English language article files without requiring user registration or fees.

Updated May 3, 2000
Web Based Resources to Help Develop Research and Prepare Manuscripts for Publication.
To view them, click here.

Added April 4, 2000
Web Resources on Education Research & Promising Practices. To view them, click here.

Added March 13, 2000
Kluwer Online. URL: http://www.wkap.nl/kaphtml.htm/JRNLHOME This company sells subscriptions to several dozen electronic Journals. Among them are the Journal of Educational Change, found at http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/1389-2843 Each Kluwer journal has its own home page, which includes past, present, and future article listings. Here you can also review the aims and scope for any journal, along with submission and subscription information. Information about electronic availability is also posted here.

Added February 21, 2000
Encyclopedias on the Web. To view this list, click here.

Added During 1999
Electronic Journals in the Field of Education. The AERA SIG Communications Among Researchers has developed a list of links to electronic journals. To view them, click here.

American Evaluation Association Guiding Principles for Evaluators, Program Evaluation Standards and Personnel Evaluation Standards URL: http://www.eval.org/AEADocuments/documents.htm

HomeworkCentral.com URL: http://www.HomeworkCentral.com At this site, a person can create a tool kit from over 70 online reference tools:-Calculus Calculators; -Online Translators; -The World Fact Book; -The Columbia Encyclopedia; -Interactive Periodic Tables; -and much, much more! Becoming a HomeworkCentral.com member is easy and free. The site also includes a searchable data base of 14,000 lesson plans.

The Writing Center at Hunter College. URL: http://myst.hunter.cuny.edu/~rwcenter/writing/w-handouts.html

Journals on the Web: A Mini-Guide URL: http://ericacve.org/journals.asp   Here is a list of websites that include either full text, or tables of contents and abstracts for the journals that ERIC/ACVE indexes and abstracts for Current Index to Journals in Education [as of Winter 1999]. For a complete list of journals indexed in CIJE see the Oryx Press/CIJE Source Journal Index: www.oryxpress.com/cije.htm

Powerful Words. To view a number of powerful, inspirational quotes, originally compiled by National Staff Development Council staff, click here.