Computer Programs Used in Educational Research and Evaluation

Useful Freeware

CU-SeeMe (commercial version)

CU-SeeMe

free black and white videoconferencing software available from Cornell University

MicNotePad

or Eudora (PureVoice)

freeware that turns your PowerBook into a taperecorder and facilitates transcription

a free email software that allows you to attach voice messages to email - and play the taped message back slowly for transcription

PGPfone

software program that enables people to talk over the internet without any long distance charge (and with privacy)

SchoolStat™

software to demonstrate graphically probability distributions

Prototype Category: Constellations

prototype database system designed to catalog, describe, and organize digital data

Zoomerang

SurveySuite

free web survey tool, enables you to create your own user-friendly web surveys - maintained on the web, automatically sorts the data and provides a bar chart display of your results

Free Email and HomePage Services

E-mail : HotMail

E-mail: RocketMail

Home Page: AngelFire


Commercial Computer Programs for Ethnographic Data Analysis (contact information)

HyperRESEARCH

617-961-3909

paul@bcvms.bc.edu

HyperQual2

602-892-9173

raymond.padilla@asu.edu

NUD•IST

61(3)459-1699 or

805-499-0721 (Sage/Scolari)

The Ethnograph

413-256-8835

qualis@mcimail.com

Commercial Computer Programs for Ethnographic and Qualitative Data Analysis (categories)

Program Operations Performed

word processors, Metamorph, Orbis, Sonar Professional, The Text Collector, WordCruncher, or ZyINDEX

Word/phrase hunt or text retrieval

askSam, Folio VIEWS, Tabletop, and MAX

Organizing and sorting text systems or textbase management

HyperQual2, Kwalitan, QUALPRO, Martin, and The Ethnograph

Find and display coded data or code-and-retrieve programs

AQUAD, ATLAS/ti, HyperRESEARCH, NUD•IST, and QCA

Theory generation

ATLAS/ti, MECA, and SemNet

Theory testing

(See Weitzman and Miles (1995) for more discussion about these categories and a review of each of these software programs for qualitative data analysis.)


Internet Searcher Pages

AltaVista

Excite

HotBot

Yahoo


Internet Reference Pages

Libray of Congress

Smithsonian Institution

The Federal Web Locator

The New York Times Navigator

Xplore


Directory Assistance Pages

Four11

LookupUSA

MapsOnUs

MapQuest

Switchboard

Zip2


Practical References

(while in the field)

Currency Converters

MedicineNet

free medical resources


Collections of Freeware and Sharware

Father of Shareware

TUCOWS Collection of Internet Shareware


File Tranfer Software

Fetch (Mac)

Fetchsoft (DOS/Windows)

WSFTP (Windows)

Look@Me

pcANYWHERE 32

Timbukto Pro


Voice Recognition Software

Dragon PowerSecretary Personal Edition

IMB Voice Type Dictation Software (Gold)


Videocam Connections World Wide

Bill's Random Camera

EarthCam

Live Cam Pictures World Wide (and then select pictures worldwide).

provides a list of locations from Antarctica to the United Kingdom at Nicole's AnthroPage

Peeping Tom

Europe, North America, and World Locations


Selected Government Web Pages

Census Bureau

Department of Education

Office of Educational Research and Improvement

Individuals with Disabilities Act

Department of Health

Department of Labor

Geological Survey

NASA

NASA's K-12 Internet Initiative

National Park Service


Selected Educational Research and Evaluation Sites

Professional Organizations and Projects

(and related home page links)

American Anthropological Association

American Educational Research Association

Internet resources

American Evaluation Association

American Psychological Association

David Fetterman's home page

Ethnography

Empowerment Evaluation

Evaluation

Policy

Web resources page

ERIC (assessment and Evaluation)

Gene Glass's home page

Educational Links

 


On-line Journals

Cultural Dynamics

Education Policy Analysis Archives (educational policy)

EDUCOM Review

Electronic Journal of Sociology

Information Technology and Disabilities

Journal of Political Ecology

Journal of Statistics Education

Journal of World Anthropology

Journal of World Systems

Meridian: Middle School Computer Technologies Journal

The International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning

The Journal of Computer-Mediated Curriculum

The Qualitative Report

Triangle Journals

British Journal of In-service Education; Educational Action Research; International Studies in Sociology of Education; Journal of Information Technology for Teacher Education; and so on

Committee on Institutional Cooperation Electronic Journals Collection


Selected Educational Research and Evaluation Listserves

AERA

AERA LIST (not for open posting)

ERL-L (general discussion list)

12 Division lisits, lists for graduate students, special topic interest group lists

(see: http://aera.net/resource/listserv.html )

AEA

EVALTALK - http://www.eval.org/evaltalk.html

Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation - http://www.stanford.edu/~davidf/empowermentevaluation.html or

empowerment-evaluation97@lists.stanford.edu

XCeval - http://www.eval.org/empower.html#xceval

CAE-L

Council on Anthropology and Education listserve

http://www.ameranthassn.org/