Help for Students in my Specific Courses:

• PA511 Help
• PA551 Help
• PA552 Help
• PA555 Help
• PA557 Help

Course and MPA Listservs:

• Recent message archives: PA511, PA551, PA552, PA555, PA557
• Message archives for past courses: PA511, PA551, PA552, PA555, PA557
• PSU MPA news (useful information about internships, jobs)
• PSU Listservs (mailing lists) information
• How to join the listserv for a course

Instructional Files for my Courses:

• Folders for specific courses: PA511, PA551, PA552, PA555, PA557
• Folder for downloading various data files: Data
• Folder for peformance measurement reports and information: PerfMeasures
• Main download directory: Download
• Information about downloading and different file types: Download Help

  (These files/folders are also accessible via a link on my home page.)

Student Forms, MPA Information:

• MPA Degree Requirements
• Field of Specialization Approval Form
• Public Administration Departmental Petition Request Form
• PA509, "Organizational Experience", Information
• MPA Student Handbook

• Past students who have gone on to work as performance auditors and analysts

Portland State University Links:

• PSU Schedule of Classes
• PA Division Course Planning Guide (Approximate Year-Long Schedule)
• Course Planning Guide (Approximate Year-Long Schedule) for all PSU Departments
• PSU Bulletin/Catalog
• Portland State University
• Division of Public Administration, PSU
  
• College of Urban and Public Affairs, PSU
• PSU Library home page
• PSU Library catalog search
• A Photograph of Portland State University
• Job Information for MPA students

Reading, Writing, Footnoting, Documentation Guides:

• How to Read in Graduate Courses (my advice)
• Strunk and White's Elements of Style online (I highly recommend this!)
• Tips for College Writing
• Research and Style Guides
• Guide to Referencing

Data, Statistics, Statistical Computing:

• On-Line Data Analysis, GSS data, UCB SDA (You can do data analysis of GSS data right from this web site!)
• On-Line Data Analysis, other data files, UCB SDA
• On-Line Data Analysis, various data files, ICPSR (You can do data analysis using a large number of various data files right from this web site!)
• On-Line Data Analysis, National Archive of Criminal Justice Data

• PA552 Data Analysis Project and Project Paper: Simple Guidelines (or "What to Do When You are Desperate")

• Free version of MYSTAT, an excellent statistics program

• General Social Survey Information/Data
• More General Social Survey Information
• UC Berkeley, Survey Data Archive
• ICPSR Data Archive, University of Michigan
• Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive

• Help on making Excel charts from SDA analysis results
• Help on downloading GSS (and other) data from an SDA web site and getting the data into SPSS
• How to Use an SPSS File With Student SPSS when the File Exceeds the Student SPSS Cases/Variables Limits

• SPSS, Inc.
• SPSS program, download free full-functioning demo version
• SPSS program, download/"rent", cheap for six months. You can rent SPSS "GradPack Base" for six months for only $46 (as of 1/2009). SPSS Base, or Graduate Pack Base, is all that you need for PA551/PA552.
• SPSS tips and tools, "Raynald's SPSS Tools"
• SPSS data files for instructional use: Look for the SAV files in my Data Folder.

• Statistical Graphics, writings by Edward Tufte
• PowerPoint - How it is misused, or "PowerPoint is Evil"

• Triola textbook on-line resources:
  • Triola textbook, Elementary Statistics Using Excel, 1st edition
  • Triola textbook, Elementary Statistics Using Excel, 3rd edition
  • Triola textbook, Elementary Statistics Using Excel, 3rd edition, exercises/illustrations

• Statsoft Electronic Statistics Textbook (Note: You can download this text and install it on your computer for fast access).
• StatPrimer Statistics Reference
• Statistics Notes by Jason Newsom (excellent set of tutorials on a range of statistics topics)

  (Also look on the PA551/PA552 help pages.)

Computing Skills, Including Spreadheet Skills:

• Save Your Work--Do Not Lose Work on the Computer!

• Excel Quick Reference Guide
• Excel Tutorial on Some Intermediate Skills
• Excel Tutorials and Examples
• More Excel (and other MS Office) Tutorials
• Google on-line Spreadsheet Program
• Relative vs. Absolute Cell References
• Professor Stipak's Single Best Excel Tip

• Quick Reference Guides for Common Computer Programs

Program Evaluation:

• Oregon Program Evaluators Network
• American Evaluation Association
• AEA Guiding Principles for Evaluators
• AEA Program Evaluation Standards
• Evaluation Guidebook (see Ch. 2 for program logic model, Ch. 6 for research design summary), pdf format
• The Research Methods Knowledge Base
• Basic Guide to Program Evaluation, Free Management Library
• Research Design Summary
• The Evaluation Center, WMU
• Evaluation Checklists

  (Also look on the PA555 help page.)

Performance Measurement in Portland and Multnomah County:

• City of Portland Performance Measurement, GASB Case Study
• City of Portland, Service Efforts and Accomplishments Report (SEA), 2002-03, Thirteenth Annual Report on City Government Performance (pdf file, 3.8 meg.)
• Other City of Portland SEA reports: 2001-02, 2000-01, 1999-00, 1998-99.
• Daniel E. O'Toole and Brian Stipak,"Implementing Service Efforts and Accomplishments Reporting: The Portland Experience. In Arie Halachmi and Geert Bouckaert, eds., Organizational Performance and Measurement in the Public Sector, 101-113. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1995.
• City of Portland, Managing for Results Proposal, 2002
• Auditor's Office, City of Portland
• Organization and Business Methods of the City Government of Portland, Oregon, report by the New York Bureau of Municipal Research, 1913
• Selected quotes from report by the New York Bureau of Municipal Research on the City Government of Portland, 1913

• Multnomah County Performance Measurement, GASB Case Study
• Multnomah County Service Efforts and Accomplishments Report (SEA), 2003 (pdf file, 1 meg.)
• Suzanne Flynn, Multnomah County Auditor, "Sustaining Performance Measurement"
• Auditor's Office, Multnomah County
• Administrative Methods of Multnomah County, Oregon, report by the New York Bureau of Municipal Research, 1913

Oregon Benchmarks:

• State of Oregon Performance Measurement, GASB Case Study
• Oregon Progress Board (state benchmarks)
• Portland-Multnomah Progress Board (local benchmarks)
• Maria Pilar Aristigueta, Managing for Results in State Government, Ch. 6 (Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 1999), pp. 87-108, covers Oregon benchmarks and managing for results
• Mike Lewis, Sandy Lockhart, and Dave de Montreuil, "Oregon Benchmarks, Changing Systems by Stealth: A Success Story in the Making"

Performance Measurement, Other:

• OMB Performance Assessment Rating Tool (PART)
• Oregon Performance Internship
• Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB), Performance Measurement for Government
• ASPA Center for Accountability and Performance
• Performance Measurement Bibliography, UV LGI
• Patricia Tigue and James Greene, "Performance Measurement: The Link to Effective Government", GFOA Research Bulletin
• Citizen-Driven Government Performance Project, National Center for Public Productivity
• Performance Measurement Manuals, National Center for Public Productivity

Performance Auditing:

• Government Auditing Standards ("The Yellow Book")
• Government Accounting Standards Board
• Audit Services Division, City of Portland
• Auditor's Office, City of Portland
• Auditor's Office, Multnomah County
• Audits Division, State of Oregon
• National Association of Local Government Auditors
• Portland Bureau of Parks and Recreation audit, 2000, Report #261, pdf format
• Portland Bureau of Police Overtime Management audit, 2000, Report #272, pdf format
• Example of an innovative use of correlations and statistical graphics in a performance audit

Managing Information Resources, E-Government:

• Computer Use in Agencies - Historical Overview
• Basic Computer Terms
• TechEncyclopedia
• Dictionary of Computing

• GovernmentWise, PSU's e-government program
• IBM Institute for E-Government
• Center for Technology in Government
• ASPA's E-Government page

Other Links, Government:

• State of Oregon
• City of Portland, Oregon
• Code of the City of Portland
• Multnomah County, Oregon
• Tax and Finance Information for Multnomah County
• U.S. Treasury Department
• U.S. Census Bureau

Other Links, Academic:

• Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
• School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
• Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Public Affairs
• UC Berkeley, School of Public Policy

Other Links, Professional:

• American Society for Public Administration
• National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration
• Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
• Search for Public Service Jobs

Other Links, Miscellaneous:

• Statistical comparison of world's countries
• Find best on-line textbook prices
• Powell's Bookstore
• Amazon Books
• JapanWord Translation Services
• Website for a newsletter writer in her 90's whose well-written and witty musings can teach us a postive lesson about aging
• English to Pig Latin tranlator
• Random Name Generator (Use when you are tired of your old name and want a new one)
• Puzzle--an interesting geometric puzzle. Try it!
• Public speaking tools/resources: 1) Toastmasters International, 2) vocal variety in speaking exercise, 3) "Argument Clinic" (another vocal variety exercise)

• Do something CRAZY (maybe downright STUPID) - go on a tandem paragliding flight with me!

• Do something a little less CRAZY (and not quite so STUPID) - go sailing with me on my sailboat June Bug!