Doing Research in CALL

Here you will find some of our favourite sites. The list is not exhaustive and if you wish to have your site included, just drop us a line.

CALL Research

• Phil Hubbard has conducted A Survey of Unanswered Questions in Computer Assisted Language Learning.

Educational Research

• Martin Ryder's site: Martin Ryder maintains an exhaustive list of resources that have proved very useful to many educational researchers. If you are particularly interested in constructivism, sociocultural theory, or activity theory, a visit to his site is a must.

Quantitative Research

• Bill Trochim's Centre for Social Research Methods provides a wealth of information and links on research design and methods. In particular his Research Methods Knowledge Base should prove invaluable to those engaging in survey research.
• WebStat by the School of Psychology at the University of New England also provides useful materials, lecture notes, and tools for research methods and statistics.
• The University of Miami Libraries maintain a useful site pointing to Internet resources on research methods in the Social Sciences.

Qualitative Research

• The Qualitative Report: an on-line journal
• QualPage: Resources for qualitative research
• Content analysis resources: links to site providing information on content analysis software. From there, you can also find useful resources and information on the question of intercoder reliability, on text analysis, etc.
• Bill Trochim's section on Qualitative Measures in his Research Methods Knowledge Base (see above).

Descriptive Statistics

• If you need a beginner's crash course in Descriptive Statistics, you can try SuperCourse. Links are provided to detailed explanations of key concepts.
• The Descriptive statistics section from WebStat (see above) is also useful if you need to refresh your understanding of basic concepts in descriptive statistics.