Course materials range from required textbooks, useful books, to Web resources on evaluation research methods. We will be using a number of online articles (as listed on the schedule page). Lecture notes are posted through WebCT.

1. Required Textbook:

• Weiss, C. H. (1998). Evaluation. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0-13-309725-0

   

2. Chapters Used in the Reading List:

• Bertot, J.M., & Davis, D. M. (2004). Planning and evaluating library networked services and resources. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.  ISBN: 1-56308-964-5

• Bishop, A. P., Van House, N. A., & Buttenfield, B. P. (2003). Digital library use: Social practice in Design and Evaluation. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. ISBN: 0-262-02544-2

• Hernon, P., & McClure, C. R. (1990). Evaluation and Library Decision Making. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing. ISBN: 0-89391-686-2

• Leedy, P. D., & Ormrod, J. E. (2005). Practical research: Planning and design (8^th ed.) Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Pretence Hall. ISBN: 0-13-110895-6

• Rubin, J. (1994). Handbook of Usability Testing. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 0-471-59403-2

• Preece, J., Rogers, Y., & Sharp, H. (2002). Interaction design: Beyond human-computer interaction. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 0-471-49278-7

• Wallace, D. P., & Van Fleet, C. (Eds.) (2000). Library evaluation: a casebook and can-do guide.  Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited. ISBN: 1-56308-862-2

• Wholey, J. S., Hartry, H. P., & Newcomer, K. E. (Eds). (1994). Handbook of practical program evaluation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers. ISBN: 1-55542-657-3

1. Comprehensive Web Collections on Research Methods, Evaluation Research and Usability:
   
   • Research Methods Resources on the WWW, by Mary Sue Stephenson, Ph.D., The School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, The University of British Columbia.

      

   • Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research, by Dr. Gene Shackman.  Web site supported by The International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication

    

   • Usable Web, by Keith Instone. It is a stale collection of links about usability issues.

    

   • Library Terms that Users Understand, by John Kupersmith, Reference Librarian at University of California, Berkeley

      

   • Writing Guide, Colorado state University
     

    

2. Glossaries:
   
   1. Evaluation Research

    
   • Glossary of Program Evaluation, by The evaluation Center
     
   •  Selected evaluation terms by By Priscilla Little, Harvard Family Research Project
     
   • Glossary of Project Evaluation, by National Science Foundation
     
   • Program Evaluation Glossary, by US Environmental Protection Agency
     

    

   2. Usability
      
      • Resources -- Glossary, by Usability by Design, UK.
        
      • Usability Glossary, by Usability First of Foraker Design

       

3. Associations

 

1. Evaluation
• American Evaluation Organization
• UK Evaluation Society
• Canadian Evaluation Society

 

2. Usability
• Usability Professionals Association
• W3C Web Accessiblity Initiative
• American Society for Information Science and Technology Special Interest Group Information Architecture (SIG IA)

 

3. Quality of Library Service
   • LibQual+

 

4. Selected Online Handbooks, Manuals, and Toolkits on Evaluation
   
   • Step-by-Step Manuals
   • Evaluation Toolkit
   • Evaluation Handbook
   • Guides and Tips on Evaluation Method
   • Evaluation Cookbook
   • Steps of Evaluation
   • Program Evaluation Guide
   • Program evaluation Tip-sheet

    

5. Evaluation Research and Resource Centers
   
   • The Evaluation Center
   • Evaluation Tools, by National Networks of Libraries of Medicine
   • The Evaluation Resource Links, by Social-Marketing
   • Publications on Program Evaluation, by The Measurement Group

    

6. Survey Instrumentation and Quantitative Tools:
   
   • Survey Product Links, compiled by American Evaluation Association
   • Online Sample Size Calculation Program, by David A. Schoenfeld, Harvard University
   • Sampling Distribution Simulation, by Rice University Virtual Lab in Statistics.
   • Statistics Selector Program, by Bill Trochim, Cornell University.
   • Research Randomizer: Instant Random Sampling and Random Assignment, by Geoffrey C. Urbaniak and Scott Plous, Wesleyan University.
     

    

7. Qualitative Research Methods:
   
   • QualPage, by Judy Norris and many other contributors at University of Georgia
     
   • The Qualitative Reporter, by Dr. Ronald J. Chenail at Nova Southeastern University

    

8. Writing Research Articles:
   
   • Writing Empirical Journal Article, by Daryl J. Bem. Cornell University.
   • Examples for APA citing styles is at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html

For each class session, the lecture notes (produced in PowerPoint format) are made available for your review. All the lecture notes are stored in the WebCT Vista course page and in folders identified by the session headings and content titles.

 

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Created by Rong Tang August 2006