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Internet-Ressourcen zum Thema Evaluation

Informations- und Serviceportale
Evaluations-Gesellschaften und -Netzwerke
(Evaluations-) Methoden und Instrumente
Mailinglisten und Diskussionsforen
Literatur/Zeitschriften
Forschungsinstitute
Weitere Links zu Evaluation
Sozialwissenschaften allgemein

Informations- und Serviceportale

WWW Virtual Library: Evaluation
There are 596 Internet resources in this database. Die umfangreichste Sammlung von Informationen ¸ber Evaluationen in Internet.
http://www.policy-evaluation.org/

LTSN National Evaluation Project
LTSN National Evaluation Project at Lancaster University offers a mixture of links to webpages, articles and papers written about evaluation, toolkits and other useful adjuncts to the evaluation endeavour, and a short bibliography of other published material.
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/edres/ltsn-eval/

WWW Evaluieren DE
D-Seite, die auf Evaluation digitaler Medien spezialisiert ist, aber ebenfalls einen ¸bersichtlichen Einstieg zu Evaluationslinks bietet (teilweise die gleichen, die sich bereits auf policy-evaluation.org-Seite finden).
http://www.evaluieren.de/infos/linksall.htm

International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication (ICAAP)
Auf dieser Seite finden sich viele Informationen und Links zu Evaluationsmethoden und allgemein Methoden der quantitativen und qualitativen Sozialforschung. Sehr umfassend.
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/

Evaluations-Gesellschaften und -Netzwerke

American Evaluation Association
The American Evaluation Association is an international professional association of evaluators devoted to the application and exploration of program evaluation, personnel evaluation, technology, and many other forms of evaluation. The site provides: Publications and Documents, list of links, training opportunities in evaluation, and access to various Topical Interest Groups (TIGs). Very comprehensive.
http://www.eval.org/

UK Evaluation Society
The UKES WEB exists to promote and improve the theory, practice understanding and utilisation of evaluation and its contribution to public knowledge. The site provides: news from the evaluation community, forums, updates on evaluation work in progress.
http://www.evaluation.org.uk/

European Evaluation Society
The European Evaluation Society¥s primary goal is to promote theory, practice and utilization of high quality evaluation especially, but not exclusively, within the European countries. The site provides a newsletter, publications, and various on-line documents.
http://www.europeanevaluation.org/

German Evaluation SocietyThe web-site of the German Evaluation Society (DEGEVAL) provides: on-line documents and various information on evaluation activities carried out in Germany. GERMAN LANGUAGE.
http://www.degeval.de/

IOCE -International Organisation for Cooperation in Evaluation
The IOCE seeks to legitimate and strengthen evaluation societies and associations by promoting the systematic use of evaluation in civil society. Keyword: International Association of Evaluators.
http://home.wmis.net/~russon/ioce/

Italian Evaluation Society
The Italian Evaluation Society aims to promote and develop the theory, practice and understanding of evaluation in Italy. The site provides: documents, a newsletter, bibliography, calendar of meetings and conferences. Italian Language.
http://www.valutazioneitaliana.it/

Walloon Evaluation Society
The web-site of the Walloon Evaluation Society provides various resources of interest to evaluators. Only available in FRENCH.
http://www.prospeval.org/

World Bank Group Evaluation Monitoring and Quality Enhancement Community
The purpose of this site is to provide visitors with useful tools, methodologies, practices, lessons, and information, to enhance the quality of World Bank operations through evaluation and monitoring. The site provides: Evaluation Studies and Monitoring and Evaluation Reports.
http://www.worldbank.org/evaluation/

International research group on policy and program evaluation (INTEVAL)
Since 1986, the research group holds one meeting every year with evaluation experts from national governments, audit institutions, universities and the private sector. Its present membership covers more than 20 countries across four continents. INTEVAL members address cutting edge issues in a cross national perspective. Research works proceed by email and through subgroup meetings during the annual gathering. Homepage bietet Zugang zu Abstracts von Publikationen und allg. Infos zum Netzwerk und den Treffen.
http://www.c3e.fr/Inteval/home.htm

Network for the Evaluation of Training and Technology (EvNet)
Das vom "Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada" und verschiedenen Organisationen aufgebaute Netzwerk konzentriert sich auf Evaluationen von Bildung und im Speziellen auf dem effizienten Gebrauch von Kommunikationstechnologie (wie e-mail etc.) in diesem Kontext. Mˆchte Multimedia Training Module entwickeln und vertreiben.
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/

Schweizerische Evaluationsgesellschaft (SEVAL)
http://www.seval.ch/de/index.cfm

(Evaluations-) Methoden und Instrumente

InterUniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research
ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction, and offers training in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/index.html

Qualidata: ESRC
The ESRC Qualitative Data Archival Resource Centre (Qualidata) was set up within the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex in October 1994 to facilitate and document the archiving of qualitative data arising from research. A major function of the Centre is to maintain an information database about the extent and availability of qualitative research material from a wide range of social science disciplines.
http://www.essex.ac.uk/qualidata/

Question Bank
The Question Bank is a searchable database of on-line questionnaires and surveys carried out in Great Britain and Europe. All questionnaires are provided in PDF format. The surveys and questionnaires available include: European Community Household Panel Survey, Expenditure Survey, General Household Survey, Health and Lifestyle Survey, Health and Lifestyle Survey and many others.
http://qb.soc.surrey.ac.uk/

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. This site is compiled by Ya-Lin Liu and Gene Shackman. Keywords: on-line documents, qualitative and quantitative methods, policy analysis, resource guide. (Very Comprehensive, Highly Recommended).
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods

Designing Evaluations, GAO
Designing Evaluations is a guide to the successful completion of design tasks. It provides a discussion of three kinds of evaluation questions--descriptive, normative, and causal--and various methodological approaches appropriate to each one.
http://www.gao.gov/policy/10_1_4.htm

Qualitative Research
Qualitative Research is dedicated to promoting and debating qualitative research methods in a broad intellectual framework. The journal provides a forum for the publication of international and interdisciplinary research, in the form of articles, short communications and research notes, reports on new technologies and other innovations, and review essays and book reviews. SAGE PUBLICATIONS.
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0331.html

Mailinglisten und Diskussionsforen

EARLI-AE
EARLI-AE -Earli Special Interest Group on Assessment & Evaluation Mailing List-. Topic: Assessment Evaluation.
EARLI-AE@NIC.SURFNET.NL
http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=EARLI-AE&H=NIC.SURFNET.NL

EVALSIOP
This mailing list is provided by the Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University. It focuses on evaluation of programs and strategic change.
http://evaluation.wmich.edu/archives/evalsiop.html

Diskussionsforum der American Evaluation Society
EVALTALK- American Evaluation Association Discussion List-. MAILTO: EVALTALK@BAMA.UA.EDU
http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=EVALTALK&H=BAMA.UA.EDU
http://www.eval.org/ElectronicLists/evalinfo.html

EVALTEN
EVALTEN Topical Evaluation Network List.
mailto:LISTSERV@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU

Forum-Evaluation
"Forum-Evaluation" - seit 1997 - ist die offene deutschsprachige Diskussionsliste zur Evaluation, die durch Dr. Wolfgang Beywl, Lehrbeauftragter f¸r Evaluation an der Universit‰t Kˆln, in Kooperation mit der DeGEval angeboten wird. Keywords: Germany, Discussion-Forum, Mailing List.
http://www.degeval.de/forum-evaluation.htm

MAPA-L
MAPA-L Mailing List. TOPIC: Circle for planning and evaluation.
MAPA-L@LISTSERV.OSI.HU
http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=MAPA-L&H=LISTSERV.OSI.HU

PAR-L
PAR-L Mailing List. Topic: Testing and evaluation.
mailto:listserv@ccat.sas.upenn.edu

REASEARCH AND EVALUATION List
Topic: Research and Evaluation.
mailto:SIOPENSC@ACAD.CGU.EDU

Deutsche Expertendatenbank
Expertendatenbank der Deutschen Gesellschaft f¸r Psychologie, spezialisiert auf Methoden.
http://www.dgps.de/forschung/experten/_exp_list.php4?kategorie=14&listing=web&check=yes&thirdcheck=yes

Literatur/Zeitschriften

Newsletter by European Evaluation Society
The European Evaluation Society (EES) publishes articles, papers and reports presented during the EES conferences. The material can be accessed free of charge.
http://www.europeanevaluation.org/newslett/newslett.htm

Evaluation Review, A Journal of Applied Social Research
Evaluation Review provides a forum for researchers, planners and policymakers engaged in the development, implementation and utilization of evaluation studies. Reflects a wide range of methodological and conceptual approaches to evaluation and its many applications. SAGE PUBLICATIONS.
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0092.html

The Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation
The Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation is provided by the Canadian Evaluation Society. The Journal can be accessed by clicking on the link "newsletter" on the left menu bar of the homepage.
http://www.evaluationcanada.ca/

Japanese Journal of Evaluation
The web-site of the Japan Evaluation Society (JES) offers the possibility to download the Japanese Journal of Evaluation as well as other reports.
http://www.idcj.or.jp/jes/index_english.htm

Monitoring and Evaluation for Results: a Handbook
This web-site provides a very useful handbook on Monitoring and Evaluation prepared by the UNDP Evaluation Group. Keywords: on-line documents.
http://stone.undp.org/undpweb/eo/evalnet/docstore3/yellowbook/

Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation
This page provides a brief introduction to empowerment evaluation. Written by Professor David Fetterman, School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford.
http://www.stanford.edu/~davidf/empowermentevaluation.html

Glossary of Evaluation Terms
The purpose of the glossary is to provide brief definitions of the evaluation criteria. The criteria are intended to reflect current "best practice" in evaluation based on the efforts of expert committees, evaluators in the field, and users of evaluation. OERL -Online Evaluation Resource Library-.
http://oerl.sri.com/gloss.html

Guiding Principles for Evaluators
This document is a Report from the AEA Task Force on Guiding Principles for Evaluators. This paper has been written by: Dianna Newman, University of Albany/SUNY; Mary Ann Scheirer, Private Practice; William Shadish, Memphis State University (Chair); Chris Wye, National Academy of Public Administration.
http://www.eval.org/EvaluationDocuments/aeaprin6.html

Valutazione -Il Portale Italiano della Valutazione-
A News Service on Evaluation -Italian Language.
http://www.valutazione.it/

Interaction Evaluation RESOURCES & Evaluation Interest Group (EIG)
This site provides: Discussion Lists, Books, Articles and Statistical Data provided by The Evaluation Interest Group (EIG.)
http://www.interaction.org/evaluation/index.html

Forschungsinstitute

Policy Research Institute
The Policy Research Institute is a centre for applied social and economic research and consultancy. Leeds Metropolitan University. (labour market and economic studies, evaluation and public management).
http://www.policyri.co.uk

ISFOL
ISFOL is an Italian Evaluation Research Institute. The site provides: publications, documents and links.
http://www.isfol.it/

Commission externe d'Evaluation des Politiques publiques
The External Commission for Public Policy Evaluation deals with evaluation issues in Switzerland. The site provides: abstracts and documents.
http://www.geneve.ch/cepp/

Weitere Links zu Evaluation

Professionell evaluieren auf Universitätsniveau
Als erste Hochschule im deutschsprachigen Raum bot die Universität Bern im Jahr 2002 den Weiterbildungsstudiengang «Evaluation» an. Aus dem innovativen Pilotprojekt ist inzwischen ein multidisziplinäres Weiterbildungsprogramm entstanden. Wollen Sie Ihre Kompetenzen in Evaluation aufbauen oder vertiefen? Je nach Laufbahnplanung und Bedürfnissen können Sie zwischen zwei universitären Abschlüssen und Einzelkursen wählen.
http://www.zuw.unibe.ch/content/wbzuw/eval/index_ger.html

Environmental Economics and Indicators
Environmental Economics and Indicators Unit (EEI) of the World Bank's Environment. This section presents several documents with applications of environmental economics to project analysis, especially evaluation of environmental impacts.
http://www-esd.worldbank.org/

Evaluating Comprehensive Community Change
Evaluating Comprehensive Community Change is a report of the Casey Foundation. Section II, Central Issues in Conducting Convincing and Useful Evaluations of Comprehensive Community Initiatives, describes concerns about study design and methodology; data collection and management; and the interpretation, presentation, and use of results.
http://www.aecf.org/publications/evaluation/index.htm

Sozialwissenschaften allgemein

IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences has been producing bibliographies since 1951. It was set up by the International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation, a non-governmental organisation recognised by Unesco. The aim of the Committee was to promote the free flow of scholarly social science information around the world.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/IBSS/

Ingenta (Publication Search Facility)
Ingenta is a global research gateway providing a free online search service of published content from numerous research sources. This web-site also offers access to article summaries from over 25,000 publications. PLEASE NOTE: This is a commercial web-site!
(Uni Bern ist eingetragene Benutzerin, also gratis zug‰ngliche Artikel)
http://www.ingenta.com/

Social Sciences Virtual Library
Social Sciences Virtual Library is an extensive database of internet resources related to social sciences. It is part of the Virtual Library Project.
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/socsci/

SOSIG (Social Sciences Information Gateway)
The Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) is a freely available Internet service which aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for students, academics, researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law. It is part of the UK Resource Discovery Network.
http://sosig.ac.uk/