LINKS AND LITERATURE

VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE!!!

All of us should read this guide: (which is recommended by icamp1 facilitators):

Title: “A General Introduction to the Design of Questionnaires for Survey Research”
Author: Burgess, T. F.
Source Information System Services, University of Leeds
Year 2001

Access date 16.11.2004

Full text available pdf (916k)

Abstract

This document is designed for students and novice researchers intending to carry out a questionnaire survey. Because surveys of any kind are expensive and time-consuming to conduct, it is important that the data analysis is as extensive and well prepared for as possible. The strength of the analysis depends on good quality data that in turn stems from good design of the data collection instrument, i.e. the questionnaire, and of the collection procedures. This document provides a compilation of do’s and don’ts for good questionnaire design that will, if followed, make data analysis easier and faster than otherwise. The survey process is outlined to place questionnaire design in context. Also covered in this document are a number of ways in which the computer fits into various elements of the overall survey process.”

– this is an extract from http://www.websm.org

[JK]

Materials about survey methods:

David S. Walonick, (1997 – 2004): Excerpts from: Survival Statistics

Questionnaire Design and Analysis

Questionnaire construction From Wikipedia

REASEARCH METHODS and DATA ANALYSIS – webpage of Katrin Niglas http://www.cs.tlu.ee/~katrin/index-ingl.ph

Survey & Questionnaire Design

Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research

 

 

Materials about e-learning:

http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/elearning/index_en.html

http://www.elearningeuropa.info/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-learning

http://www.e-learningcentre.co.uk/

http://www.e-learningguru.com/

http://www.elearningguild.com/

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/resources/e_learning.shtml

http://www.masie.com/masie/researchreports/ELEARNINGREPORT.pdf

http://www.nsdc.org/library/authors/e–learning.pdf

http: //www.elearningeuropa.info/extras/pdf/virtual_models.pdf

http://www.isoph.com/pdfs/2004_Nonprofit_E–learning_Survey.pdf

 

http://pps.teithe.gr/TeachYourSelf.pdf

http://www.geo.ut.ee/roosaare/EUGISES_2002.pdf

http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/elearning/summit.pdf

 

http://www.odeluce.stir.ac.uk/docs/saraabstract.pdf

http://ans.hsh.no/lu/inf/menu/documents.htm

http://www.odeluce.stir.ac.uk/papers.htm

Some literature on Social Capital:

– Putnam Robert 1995, Bowling Alone, America’s Declining Social Capital, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 6, No. 1, 64-78.

– Nan Lin 1999, Building Theory of Social Capital, Connection, Vol. 22. 1, 29-51.

– Granowetter Mark (1973), The Strength of the Weak Ties, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 78, No. 6, 1360-1361.

– Foley W. Michael, Edwards Bob, Escape from Politics? Social Theory and Social Capital Debate, American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 40, No, 550-561.

– Misztal Barbara 1996, Trust in Modern Societies. The Search for the Bases of Social Order. Polity Press: Cambridge. Peatükk: Trust and Society, 192-207;

– Seligman B. Adam 1997, The Problem of Trust. Princeton Univ. Press: Princeton, Introduction, 3-9, 11-43.

– Sandefur Rebecca L. and Laumann O. Edward (1998) A Paradigm for Social Capital, Rationality and Society, Vol. 10, No. 4/10:4, 481-501;

– Coleman James S. 1988, Social Capital and Creation of Human Capital, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 94, Supplement, 95-120;

– Teachman Jay. D. Paash Katleen, Carven Caren 1997, Social Capital and the Generation of Human Capital, Social Forces, Vol. 75, 1344-1359.

– Hall A. Peter 1999, Social Capital in Britain, British Jornal of Pol. Vol. 27, 417-461.

[Submitted by Gerli]