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Child and Adolescent Development for Educators, 2/e
Judith Meece, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Student Study Guide by Nancy Defrates-Densch

Studying Children's Development

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Research Design
(http://spsp.clarion.edu/mm/RDE3/start/default.html)

Provides information regarding the design of research projects and generation of hypotheses.
Correlation Research
(http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/tutorial/lamar/ylamar.htm)

Provides information regarding correlation research -- from designing a study to interpreting results. Also provides information regarding what correlation studies can and cannot do.
Experimental Research
(http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/kb/desexper.htm)

Provides information regarding various experimental research designs.
Observational (Social) Learning Theory
(http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/soccog/soclrn.html)

Provides an overview of Bandura's social cognitive theory.
Biography of Urie Brofenbenner
(http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/ub11/)

Brief biographical sketch of the famous contextual theorist.
Community Diversity -- Multicultural Framework
(http://www.treatment.org/taps/tap20/tap20debord.html)

Discusses community diversity from an ecological (Brofenbrenner) perspective.