Adolescence: Change and Continuity

Editorial Board

This website was first conceived of as a project for students enrolled in HDFS 433: The Transition to Adulthood. Each student enrolled in the course wrote a research-based essay on some aspect of adolescent development. In addition to learning more about development, a second goal of the project was to teach writing. It is harder to write clear, concise summaries of the scientific literature that are easily understandable to the general public than it is to write a longer paper that only has to communicate to a professor. Because peer editing was central to the process and because students spent a lot of time 'checking out' the website, they also got a chance to read what each other wrote, adding to their knowledge of adolescence.

HDFS 433 has moved on to other projects, some of which we hope to add to the site this coming summer. In the mean time, much work was left to be done on the Change & Continuity site. There were holes in our literature - gaps in what we had written about. There were essays that would benefit from editing. And there was much to be done with improving the look and organization of the site. Because the site was attracting a lot of attention, it became essential that it be 'kept up' and improved to keep it current and to reflect well on Penn State.

That task has been taken over by the students enrolled in HDFS 239: Adolescent Development. Students from this introductory class have volunteered to edit and update existing essays, to write new essays on new topics, to test old links and to add new ones. Other students have helped work on the HTML programming, donated photographs for us to use, and designed new user interfaces. I want to thank all of them for their work.

Nancy Darling

P.S. If you would like more information on my background and current projects, you can find it at my lab site.

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Editorial Board Spring 2000

This site was produced by students taking HDFS 433: The Transition to Adulthood and HDFS 239: Adolescent Development at the Pennsylvania State University. Feedback can be sent to the individual authors or to Nancy Darling (darling@bard.edu).

Last updated 4/16/01.