APA Ethics Code - allows online access to the entire text of the APA Ethics code and all subdivisions.

Child & Family News - created by Tufts University, the site is geared towards journalists writing about topics pertinent to child development. It has a large selection of stats and topics, including story starters and other useful info and links for those writing about current issues in the behavioral sciences.

The ETS Test Collection includes an extensive library of 20,000 tests and other measurement devices from the early 1900s to the present. For researchers, graduate students, and teachers.

Grant writing tutorial - informative online tutorial.

Guide to Selecting Statistics - by Bill Trochim of Cornell University, helps you figure out the types of statistics you should use to analyze your data in a step-by-step interactive questionnaire. For those of you who are teaching, you may want to recommend this resource to your students...

National Center for Health Statistics - easy access to recent stats on a large variety of behavioral health topics.

National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) - valuable information about research grants, resources, etc.

Office of Behavioral & Social Sciences Research - "Information for Scientists" page. Lots of info about funding opportunities, etc.

Online Journals - Want to save a trip to the library? There are many journals which can be accessed online. Most sites provide at least the abstracts to articles, while some provide full-text or just ordering information. But if it's psychology related and on the internet, it's listed here. (If something exists that is not listed, please let us know...). You can scan our list of all online journals (over 870 psychology- and psychiatry-related), or view them by discipline...

Participants Online- website which is attempting to link up researchers and prospective subjects for experiments that can be conducted online. 

Psychology With Style - an online guide to writing in APA style.

The Knowledge Base - An online research methodology textbook. Very thorough, covers all topics in research methodology in detail, including reliability and validity issues, research design, etc. A valuable resource.

Test Locator - ERIC's database of 11,000 test descriptions. Also use Thesaurus search engine for ERIC.

Tutorials in Research and Stats - list put together by Psychwatch.

Statistical Software:

Amos - A structural equation modeling program. You can read up on what it does more specifically at the page, and you can download a free student version to sample it...

Ecstatic - A statistical software package that supposedly does all the tricks (ANOVA's w/ repeated measures, non-parametric equations, multiple regressions, etc). You can download a free, fully-working demo version, and it only takes up 2mb's on your hard drive. We'll give you a critique when we get the chance to look at it ourselves, but in the meantime, if you have comments about it, let us know, so Psychwatch can summarize for our readers...

Power Analysis - Being driven crazy with power analysis? Still having trouble deciphering Cohen? You may want to try GPower, a free, easily downloadable power analysis program. It allows calculations for effect sizes, n, different alphas, etc., for several different statistical tests, including t-tests, multiple regression, and ANOVA's. Worth a look.

SPSS - makers of SPSS-X and Systat, you can purchase these and other statistical programs online. You can also get free trial downloads of stat programs, including Systat 8.0.

Statistics on the Web: Statistical Software - provides a more comprehensive listing of types of statistical software available over the net, and links to those sites. Too many to list here, but if you are looking for something more in-depth or specific, you might consider taking a peek...

Research Projects on the Internet:

The American Psychological Society provides a listing of links to various research experiments currently being conducted on the internet. Several allow you to participate, others provide information about methodology, etc.

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