Our goal is to be the pre-eminent resource list of links of interest to evaluators. Towards that end, updating and organizing this page is a major initiative for 2002.  If you know of other sites of interest to evaluators, please send your suggestions to aea@eval.org. Look for the "AEA" before a listing to identify those affiliated with the American Evaluation Association.

• Professional Groups: Groups of interest to evaluators including AEA Local Affiliates, AEA Topical Interest Groups, International Evaluation Associations and other Professional Associations. (Number of links: 45)

• Collections of Links: Sites similar to this page with links to multiple web-resources related to evaluation.  Evaluators are the audience for listed sites and only sites with content significantly different from this list are included. (Number of links: 5)

• Electronic Discussion Lists (Listservs): Email based discussion lists focusing on evaluation and/or evaluation-related methodologies. (Number of links: 30)

• Foundations: Foundations funding applied research. (Number of links: 16)

• Government Evaluation Divisions/Units and NGOs: Evaluation Divisions/Units of Government entities as well as evaluation units of Non-Government Organizations (NGOs). (Number of links: 12)

• Online Handbooks and Texts: Online, multi-chapter documents focusing on "how to's" of evaluation-related subjects. (Number of links: 28)

• General Evaluation Sites

• Qualitative Data Analysis Software: Products for analyzing text, audio, and pictorial data.

• Survey Design, Administration, Scanning, & Analysis Products: Products for developing and administering surveys as well as scanning (OCR etc) survey/form results. (Number of links: 8)

• University/Academic Departments and Centers: The listed academic Centers and Institutes focus a significant portion of their work in the area of evaluation. (Number of links: 10)

General Evaluation Sites

• Applied Survey Research This organization specializes in outcome evaluations to measure and evaluate learning, program effectiveness, impact on behavior, and effective resource allocation

• Evaluation Associates Ltd.

• The Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation  Based at Western Michigan University, the Joint Committee on Standards for Evaluation is an ANSI-approved organization whose stated mission is to serve "education organizations and institutions through the development of standards to guide and improve the quality of program, personnel, and student evaluations."  The www site provides links to Western Michigan's Evaluation Center and information on current publications.
• Monitoring and Evaluation News. A UK-based news service for those interested in evaluation, focusing on developments in Monitoring and Evaluation methods for projects with social development objectives.  The M and E News www site provides abstracts and links to current publications in the UK and elsewhere.
• Bill Trochim's Center for Social Research Methods. Links for applied social research and evaluation; look for the Knowledge Base (online textbook), statistical test selector, and the simulation book (US)
• University of Wisconsin Program Development and Evaluation Full-text publications in PDF format available for download; targeted to evaluators assessing extension programs, but resources have general evaluation appeal, as well (US)
• Vanderbilt Center for Mental Health Policy Research focuses on child, adolescent, and family mental health; follow the links to current projects, including the homeless families study (US)