• McGraw-Hill maintains a supplementary website for the Adolescence textbook by Laurence Steinberg. It contains a study guide, practice tests and other learning tools, as well as web resources. There is a whole section called Web Researcher that provides additional thought questions linked to each chapter.
• Having a hard time understanding the readings because of all the statistics? Check out Hyper Stat, an online introductory statistics textbook. This site also includes a glossary of statistics terms. You might try also try the Research Methods Knowledge Base, a comprehensive web-based textbook that addresses all of the topics in a typical introductory undergraduate or graduate course in social research methods. You'll find information on formulating research questions, sampling, measurement, research design, data analysis, and writing a research paper.

• PsychINFO is a great place to start. PsycINFO is the primary resource for psychology and related aspects of such disciplines as education, organizational management, psychophysiology, psychiatry, nursing, and sociology. This database can be accessed by Penn State users only.
• If you'd like to find out who's been citing a particular paper and how often, use the Social Science Citation Index. The most current information is available on the web for Penn State users. The years 1990-1997 are available on CD-ROM at PSU public LIAS workstations; prior to 1990, the index is in print at the library.
• Need some help with APA style? The University of Wisconsin Writing Center has an excellent guide. The APA has a statement on how to cite electronic sources of information.

• The HDFS web page has information about an undergraduate major in Human Development and Family Studies. If you're interested in a psychology major, visit the psychology department.
• Don't know what to do with an HDFS or psychology degree? A good source of information is Marky Lloyd's website on Careers in Psychology.
• For information on college summer programs, career planning, financing your education, and many other topics, visit the APA's Student Information website.
• If you are interested in attending graduate school in human development or psychology, you'll find a couple of books from APA extremely helpful. Getting In: A Step-by-Step Plan for Gaining Admission to Graduate School in Psychology will guide you through the process from start to finish. When you're ready to select the programs you'll be applying to, the most recent edition of Graduate Study in Psychology will provide you with much of the information you need to know.

So you want to know more about adolescence . . .

• Teenage Diaries takes a group of teenagers from around the country and puts them to work as beat reporters for National Public Radio. The beat is themselves. Each teenage diarist is given a tape recorder for three months to a year. They conduct interviews with family and friends, keep an audio journal, and record the sounds of daily life. Diarists usually collect between 20-30 hours of raw tape. NPR staff collaborate with each teen reporter - editing the diary for broadcast on NPR.
• Visit Adolescence: Change and Continuity to see what former students of Professor Darling's HDFS 433 course were doing.
• The National Clearninghouse on Families and Youth developed this guide for members of the media on how to cover youth and family issues. Take a look at this guide, and then think about media coverage of events involving youth. Is this guide for the media needed?
• The scientists at the Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC) study factors related to family, peer group, and school experience which contribute to healthy social adjustment. Aggressive behavior is another area of research, and the OSLC develops family, school, and community interventions to address this problem.
• As a society, our level of awareness about youth violence is possibly higher than ever before. We live in the "information age" and have instant access to information through televisions, computers, and other technologies; therefore, the salience of violence extends beyond those actually involved. How can we help children and youth cope with the experience of violence? The NIMH and the APA give some suggestions for dealing with the aftermath of a violent event. APA's public policy office also tries to answer the question, Is Youth Violence Just Another Fact of Life?
• The Theory Into Practice database contains summaries of 50 major cognitive and social-cognitive theories with references to published articles.