Online Resources

General Assessment Website/Research Information:

Online Resources

General Assessment Website/Research Information:

• Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation and Research Information http://ericae.net/

Providing information on educational assessment, evaluation and research methodology.  ERICAE encourages the responsible use of educational data and promotes the best resources for educational assessment and evaluation.

• Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) http://gseis.ucla.edu/heri/index.php

The mission of HERI is to inform educational policy and promote institutional improvement through an increased understanding of higher education and its impact on college students.

• National Student Clearinghouse http://www.studentclearinghouse.org/colleges/Tracker/default.htm

The National Student Clearinghouse, a non-profit organization, is the nation's trusted source for student degree and enrollment verification. Through our verification reporting solutions, we help educational institutions improve efficiency, reduce costs and workload, and enhance the quality-of-service they provide to their students and alumni, lending institutions, employers, and other organizations.

• National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Programs (NCELA)  http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/

Authorized under Title III of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), the National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Programs (NCELA) supports the U.S. Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students (OELA) in its mission to respond to Title III educational needs, and implement NCLB as it applies to English language learners (ELLs).

• Department of Education:  Institute of Education Sciences 

http://ies.ed.gov/
Our mission is to provide rigorous and relevant evidence on which to ground education practice and policy and share this information broadly. By identifying what works, what doesn't, and why, we aim to improve educational outcomes for all students, particularly those at risk of failure. We are the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, and by law our activities must be free of partisan political influence.

• Department of Education:  National Center for Education Research http://ies.ed.gov/ncer/

NCER supports rigorous research that addresses the nation’s most pressing education needs, from early childhood to adult education.

• Department of Education:  National Center for Education Statistics  http://nces.ed.gov/

NCES is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.

• Education Resources Information Center 

http://www.eric.ed.gov/
ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.

• E-Learning Reviews 

http://www.elearning-reviews.org/
E-learning-reviews provides those interested in research on eLearning with concise and thoughtful reviews of relevant publications. The most important goal is a well-balanced selection of seminal publications as well as interesting up-to-date publications from the various disciplinary perspectives. Our goal is to further the development of eLearning as a scientific, research-oriented discipline, and as a tool for innovating higher education as well as corporate education.

• American Education Research Association 

http://www.aera.net/
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) is concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and evaluation and by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results. 

• Education Research Service 

http://www.ers.org/
For over 35 years Educational Research Service has been the nonprofit organization serving the research and information needs of the nation's K-12 education leaders and the public. ERS was established by national associations of school administrators to fill a pressing need in education for an independent organization to provide reliable, objective research and data to enable local school district administrators to make the most effective school decisions.

• Qualitative Research in Education Home Page  http://www.unm.edu/~jka/qualres.html

QRE provides a selected list of resources for qualitative researchers, including links to information on qualitative data analysis software programs, professional association and conference information, and other useful and interesting spaces on the internet.

• Educause:  Center for Applied Research 

http://www.educause.edu/ecar
The mission of the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research is to foster better decision making by conducting and disseminating research and analysis about the role and implications of information technology in higher education. ECAR systematically addresses many of the challenges brought more sharply into focus by information technologies.

• National Center for Postsecondary Improvement  http://www.stanford.edu/group/ncpi

The National Center for Postsecondary Improvement (NCPI) engages in the agenda of research, dissemination, and outreach activities for the improvement of higher education in the United States.

Survey Design and Analysis:

• Department of Education:  National Center for Education Statistics http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/

NCES collects and reports information on the academic performance of the nation's students as well as the literacy level of the adult population. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is NCES' primary assessment of what American elementary/secondary students know and can do in academic subjects. This NCES program also assesses the proficiency of adults in performing basic literacy and mathematical tasks through the National Assessments of Adult Literacy (NAAL).

• Student Assessment of Learning Gains 

http://www.salgsite.org/
SALG is an instrument (survey) writing site which focuses exclusively on the degree to which a course has enabled student learning. In particular, the SALG asks students to assess and report on their own learning, and on the degree to which specific aspects of the course have contributed to that learning.

• The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching  http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/nursing-education/surveys

The improvement of teaching and learning is central to all of the Foundation’s work. As we bring together researchers, teachers, policymakers and members of organizations with common interests in education, we work to invent new knowledge and to develop tools and ideas that allow us to foster positive change and enhanced learning in our nation’s schools.

• National Center for Postsecondary Improvement  http://www.stanford.edu/group/ncpi/unspecified/assessment_states/instruments.html

The National Center for Postsecondary Improvement (NCPI) engages in the agenda of research, dissemination, and outreach activities for the improvement of higher education in the United States

• Rutgers University:  Tests and Assessment Instruments  http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/guides/tests.htm

This site, hosted by Rutgers University, contains a vast supply of online and printed resources for the design of surveys in a wide variety of educational environments with specific focus on psychology.

• OERL:  Online Evaluation Resource Library  http://www.oerl.sri.com/home.html

The OERL, the Online Evaluation Resource Library, was developed for professionals seeking to design, conduct, document, or review project evaluations. The purpose of this system is to collect and make available evaluation plans, instruments, and reports for NSF projects that can be used as examples by Principal Investigators, project evaluators, and others outside the NSF community as they design proposals and projects. OERL also includes professional development modules that can be used to better understand and utilize the materials made available.

• NC State University:  Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment

http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/UPA/assmt/resource.htm
The NC State University IRHEOA site focusing on collecting useful internet resources regarding educational assessment and outcomes from the assessment community thus keeping this site fresh and ever-changing.

• St. John’s University:  Online Resources for Assessing Student Learning  http://www.stjohns.edu/about/ir/tools/resources.stj

The St. John's University ORHEA site contains a vast number of links related to assessment and evaluation in higher education with an outstanding listing of assessment rubrics from a diverse range of educational backgrounds.

Wikiversity:  Survey Research and Design
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Survey_research_and_design_in_psychology

Online Survey Delivery Sites:
Survey Monkey
 http://www.surveymonkey.com/
Zoomerang 
http://www.zoomerang.com/
SurveyGizmo 
http://www.surveygizmo.com/
SurveyTool 
http://www.surveytool.com/