LINKS

TO SITES RELEVANT TO
PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH METHODS

John Davis, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
The Metropolitan State College of Denver

Updated January 22, 1999

INTRODUCTION

This page provides links to web sites relevant to students studying psychological research methods. This list is not nearly complete, but several of the sites to which you can link from here are extraordinary in their coverage. I intend this page to be a starting point from which you can access a wide range of useful resources.

I have attempted to group these sites by focus. However, there is a lot of overlap.

DISCLAIMER: As always, you will need to be the judge of the information you find.



SITES RELATED TO RESEARCH METHODS

http://clem.mscd.edu/~davisj/prm2/outlines.html
Outlines and Descriptions of Psychological Research Methods. By John Davis (me). These outlines cover the content of my undergraduate psychological research methods courses. A couple of on-line articles are included, too.

 

http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/index.htm
Bill Trochim's Center for Social Research Methods
. A well-done and thorough site for graduate-level social research methods. This site includes an on-line textbook in social research methods and a good list of research-related resources on the Web.

 

http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/kb/kbhome.htm
The Knowledge Base: An On-line Research Methods Textbook.
By Bill Trochim. Thorough and readable. A good resource for many aspects of psychological research methods.

 

http://www.uakron.edu/edfound/people/Kushner/Techniques/index.html Techniques of Research. A Web site developed for a course in educational research methods.

 

http://www.psychologie.uni-bonn.de/allgm/links.htm WWW Sites for Experimental Psychology. Many resources from basic to advanced.

 

http://clem.mscd.edu/~psych/research/rm.htm Research Methods I Homepage by Spencer Morrison, Ph.D. Includes an overview of APA manuscript format and a guide to SPSS.

 

http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/tutorial/TUTORIAL.HTM Research Methods Tutorials written by and for students in a Program Evaluation and Research Design class at Cornell.

 

http://bolt.lakeheadu.ca/~facedwww/Kerlin/qualresearch/quant.corner.html The Quantitative Corner of the Qualitative Research Page. Includes links for quantitative research.

 

http://www.ualberta.ca/~jrnorris/qual.html QualPage: Resources for qualitative researchers.

 

http://bolt.lakeheadu.ca/~facedwww/Kerlin/qualresearch/qualPage.html The Qualitative Research Page. Includes a fine list of links for qualitative research.

 

http://www.auckland.ac.nz/msis/isworld/index.html
Qualitative Research in Information Systems. A thorough site for qualitative research. Good definitions of terms and strategies.

 

http://lemoyne.edu/~hevern/narpsych.html Narrative Psychology: An Internet Guide. Nice site on this aspect of qualitative research.

 

http://www.wp.com/stat/research.html
How to Do Research (Advice)
by Paul Hutchinson at Macquarie University. Many helpful hints for beginning researchers. I recommend this site.

 


LISTS OF PSYCHOLOGY RESOURCES
The sites in this section are primarily or exclusively links. Most of the sites above also include links to other resources.

http://www.psychwww.com/ Psych Web by Russ Dewey at Georgia Southern University. This is a high-quality mega-list of links, well-organized and easy to use. Many sites are useful to undergraduate psychology students, including sites on career development, APA style, web resources, etc.

 

http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/pointers/pointers.htm
Research Pointers Page.
By Bill Trochim. Many good resources for research methods.

 

http://lemoyne.edu/~hevern/psychref.html Resources in Psychology on the Internet. Big, well-put-together site. Many, many resources. Recommended.

 

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/links.htm American Psychological Society's list of links to internet sites related to scientific psychology.

 

http://www.cmhc.com/webpsych/ WebPsych. More oriented to psychological self-help and mental health, but some links from this site may be useful to researchers.

 

http://clem.mscd.edu/~psych/links.htm Links to other psychology-related sites from the MSCD Psychology Department home page.

 

http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Psychology/ Yahoo Psychology links.

 

These sites offer guidelines for evaluating the quality of information available on the WWW.

http://milton.mse.jhu.edu:8001/research/education/net.html Evaluating information found on the Internet.
http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/webeval/webeval.htm
Evaluating Websites.
http://urisref.library.cornell.edu/skill26.htm How to critically evaluate information sources

 


HELP WITH APA STYLE AND PRESENTATIONS

http://www.psychwww.com/resource/apacrib.htm APA Style Resources on Psych Web page by Russ Dewey. A listing of links relevant to using APA style. Many of these links are given below, but it is worth checking this site.

 

http://clem.mscd.edu/~psych/research/apastyle.htm
APA Manuscript Style for a Research Paper.
From Dr. Spencer Morrison's Research I site. This is a good overview of most of what you need to know for an undergraduate research paper (such as a paper for PRM2). There are a few minor errors that need to be corrected but nothing major. (For example, it says that block quotes should be single spaced; they should be double spaced like the rest of the manuscript.)

 

http://www.ldl.net/~bill/aparev.htm
A good description of APA style formatted in APA style.

 

http://www.uwm.edu/people/pcsmith/usergide.htm
Hypertext Research Paper.
A sample research paper written in APA style with comments and references to the APA Publication Manual. Useful for learning APA style.

 

http://www.apa.org/journals/faq.html
APA Publication Manual Frequently Asked Questions
. Clarifies a few points from the APA's 4th edition of their Publication Manual.

 

http://www.psychwww.com/tipsheet/labrep.htm
Preparing your lab report.
Guidelines for preparing laboratory reports for Jan Kennedy's course at Georgia Southern University. Some of it is specific to that course, but most of the site is general.

 

http://155.43.225.30/apa/apa_index.htm
A Guide to Writing Research Papers using APA Style
in a question-and-answer format.

 

http://www.beadsland.com/weapas Web Extension to APA Style. Suggestions for citing URLs in psychological research papers.

 

http://www.utmem.edu/personal/crussell/poster_table
Developing and presenting qualitative research posters. The information here is relevant to quantitative posters, too.

 


SITES FOR RELEVANT ORGANIZATIONS

http://www.apa.org/science/ APA's Science site.

 

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/ American Psychological Society.

 


OTHER USEFUL SITES

 

If you have suggestions for other useful Internet sites or if any of these addresses are out of date, please let me know at davisj@mscd.edu.

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