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Education Statistics Quarterly http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2004609
Statistics Every
Writer Should Know – Robert
StatNotes is another online statistics textbook.
http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/statnote.htm
HyperStat is an introductory level hypertext statistics book.
http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/index.html
SticiGui Online Text http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/stark/SticiGui/Text/index.htm
the text is not geared toward theory, numerical analysis, or sophisticated formulae;
• It is interactive: Students perform numerical experiments, analyze data, and manipulate plots to learn fundamental statistical and probabilistic concepts. The text combines guided exploration with the presentation of new material. The format encourages students to practice and to ask themselves and answer "what if?" questions -- to learn through inquiry. The practice exercises are graded instantly, and detailed solutions are a click away.
• It is dynamic: Many examples and exercises change every time a page is reloaded, providing a practically unlimited number of practice problems.
StatSoft Electronic Statistics Textbook Free statistics textbook
http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html
• Correlational vs. experimental research
• Dependent vs. independent variables
• Why relations between variables are important
• Two basic features of every relation between variables
• What is "statistical significance" (p-value)
• True" Mean and Confidence Interval
• Shape of the Distribution, Normality
Visual Anova is a Flash Move which demonstrates visually how variability between and within experimental groups contributes to the F ratio. It is not a numerical calculator; rather it visually and holistically demonstrates the relations among important concepts. Visual ANOVA is supported by online instructions and by an extensive online lecture explaining the theory behind the Analysis of Variance. The online lecture is supported by two types of assignments: 1) Online computer-graded homework, and 2) A pdf file that gives students the opportunity to do handwritten homework problems with answer keys.
http://www.psych.utah.edu/stat/introstats/anovaflash.html
Resources for Methods
in Evaluation and Social Research This
page lists FREE resources for methods in evaluation and social research.
The focus is on "how-to" do evaluation research and the methods used:
surveys, focus groups, sampling, interviews, and other methods. Most of
these links are to resources that can be read over the web. A few, like
the GAO books, are for books that can be sent away for, for free (if you live
in the
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/
Research Randomizer This web site is designed to assist researchers and students who want an easy way to perform random sampling or assign participants to experimental conditions. Research Randomizer can be used in a wide variety of situations, including psychological experimentation, medical trials, and survey research. The program uses a JavaScript random number generator to produce customized sets of random numbers. The current version of Research Randomizer, v3.0, improves on previous versions by allowing you to download sets of randomly generated numbers in Microsoft Excel format.
The Qualitative Research Web Ring is of particular interest to graduate students and faculty interested in all aspects of qualitative research.
http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=QualitativeResearch;action=list
Electronic Resources for Information Research Methods This is a goldmine of research information.
Brief Guide to Questionnaire Development This paper is intended to identify some of the more prevalent problems in questionnaire development and to suggest ways of avoiding them. The focus is on questionnaires designed to collect factual information and opinions.
http://www.testscoring.vt.edu/fraryquest.html
Repositories of
Primary Resources A listing of over
5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books,
historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. All
links have been tested for correctness and appropriateness.
Links added or revised within the last thirty days or so are marked {New}.
http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
OAIster is a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service. Our goal is to create a collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources (what are digital resources?) that are easily searchable by anyone.
http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/
Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 1559 journals in the directory. Currently 391 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 72883 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
The Vivísimo Clustering Engine™ The Vivísimo Clustering Engine™ automatically clusters search results into categories that are intelligently selected from the words and phrases contained in the search results themselves. This means that categories will be as up-to-date and fresh as your content. Vivisimo is a meta engine that searches multiple engines and directories and organizes results into concept clusters. Vivísimo uses a Clustering EngineT, which automatically organizes search results into hierarchical folders on-the-fly based on words and phrases contained in your results. http://vivisimo.com/
Scirus Scirus searches over 167 million science-specific Web pages, enabling you to quickly:
•Pinpoint
scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the Web
•Find the latest
reports, peer-reviewed articles and journals that other search engines miss.
•Offer unique
functionalities designed for scientists and researchers.
Copernic Basic Agent Search Engine I use this for serious academic
searching.
• More than 90 search engines grouped into 10 categories
• Elimination of duplicates and broken links
• Web page preview
• Keep a history of your searches using folders
• Filter results by result status and link validity
• Sort results by many fields
• Search within found results using keywords or Boolean queries
http://www.copernic.com/en/index.html
SMARTHINKING - Online Writing Lab
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supplement our existing Writing Support services, Capella University has
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real-time online tutoring and custom critique of their papers.
Online Writing Tutors (E-Structors)
E-structors are online Sunday through Thursday
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- Pre-schedule a one-on-one
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- Submit a question to which an
e-structor will respond within 24 hours.
Custom Critique of Papers
- Submit a paper of 8-10 pages.
If your paper is 10-20 pages, break it into manageable sections and submit
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- An e-structor
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- E-structors
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