The following questions will help you think more deeply about course material and access the most up-to-date information available. Use the links after the questions to find resources that help answer the questions, or use the PowerSearch engine at the book's Online Learning Center or another Internet search engine to locate other online resources.

1			Child maltreatment (abuse and neglect) affects children and adolescents, and it has implications for how they will rear their own future children. Write an outline of how you might use Bronfenbrenner's theory to organize information about the factors underlying child maltreatment in a paper or class presentation. http://nccanch.acf.hhs.gov/topics/prevention/what_works/building.cfm http://nccanch.acf.hhs.gov/pubs/usermanuals/neglect/neglectc.cfm
2			Drinking and other drug use by college students is a serious concern on most college campuses. Suppose a representative of the Dean of Students office came into your classroom and distributed a survey of drinking and drug use. You can complete the survey anonymously, but are any of your rights as a human participant being violated? http://research.uiowa.edu/hso/index.php?get=bill http://www.irb.arizona.edu/documents/Bill%20of%20rights%20-%20Participants.doc http://www2.mnsu.edu/graduate/IRB/irbInfo.pdf
3			As a requirement for your methods course, you must design and carry out an original research project. You must decide what type of data you will collect, and you choose to research adapting to college life. Your instructor asks if you will use an interview or a survey, and he or she requests that you learn about the distinction and the benefits and difficulties of each. What is the difference between an interview and a survey? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/survtype.htm http://www.surveysystem.com/sdesign.htm