ESCalate Resource: ESCalate Research methods teaching and learning: Effective on-line support

Examples of on-line links: support for research training

The following examples were the outcome of a web search in May 2002. They are indicative of the resources available and many more exist.

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/qualpsy.html: The archives of the mailing list for the Qualitative Research Network for Psychology . There is a posting here that links to
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm: the 8th issue of the on-line journal FQS -- "Using Technology in the Qualitative Research Process"
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ELSIN.html: ELSIN An Inter-disciplinary group of researchers, teachers and trainers in HE who are interested in the theory and application of learning styles, and individual differences in human performance.
http://informationr.net/rm/RMeth3.html: This Sheffield University web page lists a wide range of mailing lists for research training.

http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/: “Welcome to the RDN Virtual Training Suite - a set of online tutorials designed to help students, lecturers and researchers improve their Internet information skills. You can work in your own time at your own pace - no one is monitoring you! The tutorials take around an hour each to complete, and include quizzes and interactive exercises to lighten the learning experience. Why not have a go?”
http://www.netskills.ac.uk/TonicNG/cgi/sesame?detective: an interactive tutorial on evaluating the quality of Internet resources

http://www.sosig.ac.uk/: Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG)
http://ctiwebct.york.ac.uk/LTSNASP/buildSQL.asp: This links to the set of resources found using the search terms ‘research methods’ on the LTSN Psychology site.
http://scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/researchmethods.html: “It is useful to bring together a large number of websites devoted to research methodologies and statistics. These sites have been selected because they address methodological issues and theories. They are placed in this list in a rather serendipitous fashion to remind us that serendipity is often a critical element in research.”
http://www.alnresearch.org/Html/resources.htm: Learning Networks Effectiveness Research Web Centre. This is an on-line community for researchers and students in asynchronous learning networks.

http://www.dmu.ac.uk/~jamesa/learning/contents.htm: These pages are about theories of learning in a post-school educational context.They are designed to provide a “quick and dirty” overview and introduction to the field, so anyone who knows anything about the ideas already will certainly find over-simplifications. Wherever possible, however, references are provided for further —more reliable — reading. Moreover, the selection of material is personal and in some cases downright idiosyncratic. But there is a point to providing such an overview, and particularly in a hypertext format, which is to make clear the shape of the field, and to help the teacher to orient her- or himself to how the ideas fit together or provide conflicting models. I also think visually, and so there are a lot of diagrams.”

http://labweb.education.wisc.edu/cni916/project/index.htm: A Masters degree student site that in their own words “Using a web site to map the field of qualitative research, it is our purpose to represent visually the demarcations separating the paradigms while not losing the interconnections within the field of qualitative research. The concept of bricoleur will be used as a metaphor to organize our use of this multimodal form of representation. We will apply this concept by studying the phenomenon of "adult learners". Specifically, we have generated three research questions informed by the ontological and epistemological underpinnings of each paradigm. Within each paradigm, we delineate a thumbnail sketch to show how each methodology would enable us to study the question.”

http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/kb/: Research Methods Knowledge Base is a comprehensive web-based textbook that addresses all of the topics in a typical introductory undergraduate or graduate course in social research methods.
http://methods.fullerton.edu/framesindex.html: Methods in Behavioural Research, a text for research methods courses in psychology and other behavioural sciences.
http://spsp.clarion.edu/mm/RDE3/start/RDE3start.html: Research Design Explained

http://www.tsum.edu/~trenckly/mainpage.htm: Research Methodology on-line - Transmission mode. Troy State University, Montgomery, USA

http://158.132.100.221/CMWkshp_folder/CM.ResFolder.html: Concept Mapping
http://tiger.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/WebGrid/WebGrid.html: Repertory Grid
http://www.stat.sc.edu/rsrch/gasp/: Globally Accessible Statistical Procedures initiative is designed to make statistical routines easily available via the WWW.

http://www.york.ac.uk/services/library/subjects/resmethods.htm: University of York This has links to many sites which cover research methodologies, evaluative techniques, writing skills and presentation of research. It also includes guides on how to keep up to date with research developments as well as a useful section with links to resources to support an understanding of how to evaluate resources.
http://informationr.net/rm/: University of Sheffield. Electronic Resources for Information on Research Methods – contains general information about resources e.g. journals, ethics etc. and research methods information. Contains many links including on-line courses.
http://www.cirem.org.uk/about.html: The Cambridge Institute for Research, Education and Management (CIREM) offers distance-learning courses for students who wish to carry out health-related research and/or undertake survey-based research within human populations. It uses the Internet to deliver most of the course material.

http://gateway1.gmcc.ab.ca/~digdonn/psych104/var.htm: Experimental Dilemmas Designing Research Studies in Psychology. This site has a number of experimental dilemmas designed to acquaint introductory psychology students with basic research design. The following concepts are covered in the dilemmas: random assignment to groups, confounding variables, assuming causal relationships from correlational studies, double blind procedure, counterbalancing, random sampling and quasi-experiments.
http://gateway1.gmcc.ab.ca/~digdonn/psych104/cor.htm: Quizzes
http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/tutorial/TUTORIAL.HTM: Student prepared tutorials

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