Resources

This page contains links to resources related to my profession in general and my site in particular. The Library section contains many of the resources referenced throughout my site. The General Resources section contains links to other sites containing resources that might be of interest to the sort of person I expect to visit my site. So, if little of it is of use to you, I must’ve missed my mark.

Library

Below is an index of the links to and pages containing various materials cited throughout my web site.

• Assessment Resources


• Educational Research Seminar


• Research
  
  
  
  • Ghent University’s Laboratory for Ethology at Ghent University

    In addition to the ground-breaking work in Animal-Assisted Interventions being conducted by Drs. Meers and Ödberg, the Laboratory for Ethology studies behaviors in dolphins, gerbils, voles, domestic livestock (horses as well as pigs and cattle), etc., etc. Research includes ensuring animal welfare, proper handling and housing, environmental enrichment, and other areas of animal behavior (e.g., foraging strategies). They also offer consultations to animal handlers. Neat stuff.

  
  
  • Dipartimento di Scienze Sperimentali Veterinarie

    Among the many areas of research being pursued at the Università di Padova’s Dipartimento di Scienze Sperimentali Veterinarie are experiments in anatomy, biochemistry, physiology, and parasitology. Dr. Normando specializes in studying and correcting mal-adaptive behaviors in horses, but her many interests in collaborations have involved her in a wide range of scientific pursuits.



• Curriculum Vitae
  
  
  • Development of a non-intellective measure of academic success: Toward the quantification of resilience.
  
  
  • Nicoll, K., Trifone, C., & Samuels, W. E. (2008). An in-class, humane education program can improve young students’ attitudes towards animals. Society and Animals, 16, 45 – 60.
  
  
  • United Federation of Teachers Humane Education Committee, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Humane Education Advocates Reaching Teachers (2006). Humane education resource guide. Retrieved April 29, 2008, from United Federation of Teachers Web site: http://www.uft.org/member/committees/humane/services/resources/
  
  
  • Adobe Acrobat Version of Curriculum Vitae

Resources

The information and links on this page are a loose collection of sites, etc. that I’ve found useful in various aspects of my work. It’s kinda a collection of my favorite things related work. I hope some of them are helpful to you, too.

• Methods and Statistics
  
  After all, it don’t matter until you know how much it matters.
  
  
  • Methods and Statistics Information and Tutorials
  
  
  • Research Methods Knowledge Base
  
  
  • Formatting a Paper-Based Survey Questionnaire: Best Practices
  
  
  • StatPages.org
    
    
    • Statistical Decision Tree
      
      
      • Cautionary notes associated with the decision tree
  
  
  • Selecting Statistics
  
  
  • Create a Graph
  
  
  • Graph types and online graph creator
  
  
  • Flexible online graph creator
  
  
  • Daniel Soper’s Statistical Calculators
  
  
  • David Walker’s Statistical Calculators
  
  
  • Random Number Generator
  
  
  • Lee Becker’s Effect Size Calculator
  
  
  • Downloadable Excel-Based Effect Size Calculator
  
  
  • Creative Research Systems’ Sample Size Calculator
    
    
    • Definitions of confidence interval and confidence level
  
  
  • Harshbarger’s (1977) Introductory Statistics: A Decision Map


• Word Smithing
  
  Resources for writing, editing, etc.
  
  
  • Guidelines for Writing in APA Style

    This site created and hosted by Purdue is an excellent resource for writing in the style prescribed in the American Psychological Association’s Publication Manual

  
  
  • The Elements of Style

    Strunk and White’s little book about English writing is quite clear and user-friendly. This site by Bartleby.com contains much of use from that guide.

• Making It Matter
  
  Probably where I’m least unbiased on this site, these sites are nonetheless ones I’ve found to be very useful.
  
  
  • GuideStar

    Having worked for a top-tier non-profit, I know the real challenges of having one’s bottom line something other than shareholder profit: Not all the donations can go to programs even though that’s what donors and GuideStar want to see. Nonetheless, I believe GuideStar does a good job separating the wheat from the chaff.

  
  
  • Idealist

    A hub for non-profit and volunteering information and networking, Idealist has grown and evolved from being a simple list of non-profit jobs to quite a nexus of activity and collaboration.

  
  
  • Mayfirst.org

    A group of people who use the Internet to “pool our resources to assure ourselves quality equipment and staff support and to improve our access to the Internet, enhance its function as a tool for mass communication and organizing, develop new technologies and uses for it, and help social justice movements use it effectively to communicate with each other and with the world.”

• Productivity/General Computer Use
  
  
  • Open Source Software and Operating Systems

    I view the Internet as the first, fully man-made environment. The fact that a group of those “inhabiting” this environment have created a vast supply of free and open resources demonstrates that we are still capable of caring about the common good. The fact that these resources are in many ways superior to their proprietary analogs is neat to see, too.

    • OpenOffice.org

      I’m a big proponent of open source software for both product quality and ideological reasons, and Microsoft’s launch of both Vista and Office 2007 have both only helped reinforce this view.
      
      Being open to development, there are a few macros, etc. I recommend adding to OpenOffice for research uses:

      • David Hitchcock’s Statistics Package

        Quoted from OOoMacros.org, a great source for, well, OOo Macros:

        This is a suite of macros to perform basic statistical analysis within OpenOffice. These macros give OpenOffice Calc the functionality which Analysis ToolPak gives Microsoft Excel, and many of these routines are unavailable in Excel.
        
        OOoStat routines are dialog-driven and can be installed in their own menu.
        
        There are three modules of user-called macros:

        • Basic Statistics: 1-way ANOVA, Kruskall-Wallis test, t-test, 2-way ANOVA, chi-square contingency table test, Wilcoxon sign-rank test, Correlation, Rank Correlation, Simple Regression, Multiple Regression.
        • Multivariate Statistics: Principal Components Analysis, Correspondence Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling, MANOVA, Canonical Discriminant Analysis.
        • Applications: Histogram, Text-to-Columns, Latin Square generation, Patterned data

        These files are released under the GNU General Public License (GPL)

      • Andrew Lewis’s Box Plots and Histograms

        Also from from OOoMacros.org, “This is a Calc spreadsheet into which the user can type or paste data, and then display that data using box plots or histograms, which are drawn in a newly created Draw document.”

    
    
    • Linux

      I only recently installed Ubuntu on my home machine, so I can’t comment much on it except to say that it works well and is quite stable. It’s easy to install and very easy to switch between OSs if you want to give it a try without utterly committing yourself to it.

    
    
    • Creative Commons

      A brilliant alternative to copyright that maintains rights without utterly squashing creativity, as has happened, e.g., to a large extent in the distribution of Sita Sings the Blues.

    
    
  • xplorer²

    One of the best buys I ever made (a freeware version is also available), I find this replacement for Windows Explorer so superior, I really can’t imagine being without it.

  
  
  • MultiMon

    I stuck an extra monitor into both my home and work desktops. Sometimes I don’t use the other monitor at all; other times I find it utterly indespensible. This tight, little program makes sending things from one monitor to another very easy.

  
  
  • TOR and Privoxy

    I believe strongly in responsibly exercising and advocating freedom of speech and expression. These help keep information available, give voice to oppressed people, and keep expression/civic involvement safe.

• Web Creation
  
  Right, so writing this website on little more than Notepad, I’ve have had to learn some html, java, etc. Below are the sties I’ve found most useful in helping teach myself web design.
  
  
  • Mozilla Firefox

    To browse, first you need a browser. To browse well (and more securely), you need something better than Internet Explorer. For those of us on PC machines, this pretty much means Firefox—although Opera is also one of the other viable browser options for PCs.

  
  
  • W3 Schools

    These tutorials have taught me most of what I know about web design. Granted, that’s not much of an endorsement, but I still think they’re very useful. The “Try It Now” function is a great, experiential way to learn and tinker with code.

  
  
  • HTML Code Tutorial

    Another very nice series that not only explains things well, but also gives quite sound recommendations about the topics—which to use, which to ignore in place of better options, etc.

  
  
  • Hex Color Code Chart & Generator

    Simply a fantastic way to figure out what colors to use for nearly anything online. The snazzy and posh color scheme that graces my site is courtesy of this site. Again, not the best endorsement, but I really do recommend playing around here.

  
  
  • Web Monkey

    I found this through a link in Wired—thank you, Wired!. Useful, tongue-in-cheek, user-generated articles that are often very informative on a wide range of simple and advanced web/Internet topics.

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