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INSTRUMENT COLLECTIONS
The sites and resources listed below were recommended by
members as compilations (broadly defined) of information about tools and instruments of use to
evaluators. Please recommend additions or changes to
office@eval.org.
Site: Advocacy Capacity Tool
Sponsor: BolderAdvocacy
Scope: Provides measures and numerical results for assessing
the advocacy capacity of an organization
Organization: Alliance for Justice
Cost: Free
Link:
http://bolderadvocacy.org/tools-for-effective-advocacy/advocacy-capacity-tool; http://www.bolderadvocacy.org/act
Site: Bibliography on Evaluating Web
Information: Sample Evaluation Forms
Sponsor: Virginia Tech University Libraries
Scope: Links to
11 forms used for evaluation of web content credibility and
reliability.
Organization: Strictly a list of forms with authors and URLs.
Cost: Free to view listings, links to free instruments
Link:
http://www.lib.vt.edu/help/instruct/evaluate/evalbiblio.html#forms
Site: Buros Mental Measurement Yearbook Online
Sponsor: Buros
Institute of Mental Measurements
Scope: Brief
annotations of over 2500 mental measurement tests available via a
searchable database.
Full detailed reviews,
available for purchase include instrument descriptions
(including purpose, audience, and content details), publication
information, and validity and reliability evidence.
Organization:
Online database searchable by keyword or browsable alphabetically or
by category.
Cost: Free to view limited reviews, $15 per detailed review,
instrument costs vary
Link:
http://buros.unl.edu/buros/jsp/search.jsp
Site: Early Childhood Measures Profiles (pdf)
Sponsor: Child Trends
Scope: Detailed,
extensive annotations related to 48 instruments used for measurement
in early childhood.
Organization: Downloadable PDF examines instrument in detail
within broader chapter groupings
Cost: Free to view annotated listings, instrument costs vary
Link:
http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/ECMeasures04/report.pdf
Site: Evaluation Forms and Modules
Sponsor: The Measurement Group
Scope: A range of
example instruments developed by The Measurement Group for use in
evaluations that they have performed primarily in different
areas of health. Annotation varies from listing to listing.
Organization: Organized by instruments developed for specific
programs
Cost: Free to view annotated listings, free to access
instruments
Link:
http://www.tmg-web.com/hivaids/programs/metrodc/metrodc~M.htm
Site: Evaluation Instrument Bank
Sponsor: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug
Addiction
Scope: 170
evaluation instruments in the treatment field and 70 in the
prevention field. Some instruments available in multiple languages.
Organization: Searchable by keywords, full text, or
categories. Range of information about each instrument varies
widely.
Cost: Free to view listings and access instruments.
Link:
http://eib.emcdda.europa.eu/
Site: FRIENDS Compendium of Annotated
Measurement Tools
Sponsor: National Resource Center for
Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention
Scope: Detailed
annotations ranging from cost and administration to appropriate
audience, context, and psychometric properties, to guide instrument
selection, for over 60 instruments used for measuring outcomes in
prevention programs. Instruments are not provided on the site.
Organization:
Each instrument profiled on separate page with standardized layout
Cost: Free to view annotated listings, instrument costs vary
Link:
http://www.friendsnrc.org/outcome/toolkit/annot.htm
Site: Handbook of Data Collection Tools:
Companion to "A Guide to Measuring Advocacy and Policy"
Sponsor: Annie E Casey Foundation/Organizational Research
Services
Scope: The
handbook is at once a guide describing types of and reasons for
data collection, and a collection of tools. Includes
approximately twenty tools to measure advocacy and policy
change.
Organization:
PDF document providing information on resources in linear order.
Cost: Free pdf of handbook
Link:
http://www.organizationalresearch.com/publications/
a_handbook_of_data_collection_tools.pdf
Site:
Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES)
Sponsor:
Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for
Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and
Evaluation
Scope:
List of instruments used to assess
early childhood programs funded under the Head Start program
Organization:
Each Measure Includes -
Background Information (measure/source, purpose of measure,
population measure developed with, key constructs of the
measure, norming of measure), Administration of Measure
(respondent, administration, setting), and Functioning of
Measure (reliability, validity, environment, concerns, comments
& recommendations).
Cost:
Free to view annotated listings, some instruments are
proprietary and require fee to use.
Link:
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/hs/faces/index.html#instru
Site: Instrument Wizard
Sponsor:
The ISA Group
Scope:
Searchable database of
screening, diagnostic, research, evaluation, and needs assessment
instruments to measure substance use and related topics.
Includes psychometrics and scoring
information and how to contact the developer or copyright holder.
Organization:
Highly searchable including target audience, specific
substance of abuse, instrument purpose, and other related topics. Instruments
are available for download as part of membership
Cost: Requires $15/monthly or $100/annual membership
Link:
http://www.instrumentwizard.com/login.asp
Site: Learning2BGreat.com
Sponsor: Learning to be Great, LLC
Scope: L2BG's mission is to improve organizational
performance by distributing high-quality, low-cost, practical
organization improvement tools, including evaluation tools. AEA
members may join L2BG and then sell their downloadable products
from the site; users may purchase these tools when and where
they need them. A portion of L2BG’s profit each year will be
donated to a deserving nonprofit organization.
Organization:
All tools are organized into 12 categories: each is labeled an
assessment instrument, a model, or a solution (method for
solving a problem or performing a task) and each has a primary
focus on individuals, teams, whole organizations, or
communities. The collection of materials is searchable by these
terms and by author’s name.
Cost: Annual membership, which includes the right
to sell six products per year and a personal Web page, is $99.
Authors set the price of their products and receive 70% of the
price of each product sold.
Link:
http://www.learning2bgreat.com
Site:
Medical Algorithms
Sponsor:
Institute of Algorithmic Medicine
Scope:
More than 11,000 scales, tools, assessments, scoring systems,
and other Algorithms useful in medicine and biomedical research
Organization:
Searchable database of useful
healthcare algorithms including documentation, references, and
instrumentation.
Cost:
Free searchable database but user must first create an account
with a password.
Link:
http://www.medal.org/visitor/login.aspx
Site: National Survey Indicators Database
Sponsor: Annie E Casey Foundation
Scope:
Database
of more than 400 family and community survey questions, measures,
and instruments items, searchable by instrument name,
variable/domain, source, and validity/reliability. Based
on a Chapin Hall Center for Children review of 44 survey
instruments used in family strengthening and community initiative
studies between 1977 and 2001.
Organization: Organized into
eight
major domain areas including social networks, formal helping
systems, economic opportunity, neighborhood assets, family
functioning, child well-being, advocacy and collective action, and
demographics. Each indicator has extensive information including
wording, context, and references. Fully free-text searchable.
Cost: Free to view listings.
Link:
http://tarc.aecf.org/initiatives/mc/mcid/index.php
Site: Online
Evaluation Resource Library (OERL) Instrument Collection
Sponsor: National
Science Foundation
Scope: Brief
annotations of over 150 instruments, selected using criteria based
on the Program Evaluation Standards, used in NSF Educational and
Human Resources evaluation projects.
Organization:
Instruments are divided into major topical areas and then into a
grid to identify those covering subtopics with each actual
instrument having a short annotation followed by the instrument
itself.
Cost: Free to view annotated listings, free to access
instruments
Link:
http://oerl.sri.com/instruments/instruments.html
Site: Tests and Measures in the Social
Sciences
Sponsor: University of Texas Arlington
Libraries
Scope:
A list of 123 reference volumes with
links to 11,450 social science instruments.
Organization:
Drill
down by topic area and then extensive lists
of instruments within topic or searchable with open text searching
across the instrument listings. Users are instructed to check
their local (university) library for the
source volume.
Cost: Free to view listings, must then access book through
library or purchase and access instrument. Instrument costs vary.
Link:
http://libraries.uta.edu/helen/Test&meas/testmainframe.htm
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