SRA Call for Proposals

The Society for Research on Adolescence will be holding its biennial meeting in March, 2012, in Vancouver, B.C. The call for proposals will be closing on August 19.

To learn more, visit http://www.s-r-a.org/2012-biennial-meeting

Research Methods Knowledge Base

There is a new online textbook available written by the former president of the American Evaluation Association, Michael Trochim. The intent of this book is to provide students and researchers with information about research and evaluation, including measurement, sampling, analysis, and writing.

The full textbook must be purchased, but there are several subsections which are available at this link.

The planning and evaluation cycle is described here. An overview of several aspects of measurement, validity, reliability, types of measures, research design, and several other topics are available at the site.

Youth Development Insight blog

The University of Minnesota has started a new blog called Youth Development Insight. Every Wednesday new topics around youth development will be posted for discussion. They encourage participation from youth development professionals around the country.

The blog is located here.

Youth and social media position

The University of Washington Information School seeks an assistant professor with expertise in youth and adolescence as well as social media and information and digital behavior.

For more information, visit this link.

Healthy living article

This 2010 article in BMC Public Health is an evaluation of a health promotion project in the Girl Scouts youth development program. The authors randomized Girl Scout troops to intervention or control and trained troop leaders to implement physical activity and healthy eating policies. BMI did not differ significantly between intervention and controls, but intervention troops reported more physical activity than controls.

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