Neil J. Salkind received his PhD in human development from the University of Maryland, and after teaching for 35 years at the University of Kansas, he was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology and Research in Education, where he collaborated with colleagues and work with students. His early interests were in the area of childrens cognitive development, and after research in the areas of cognitive style and (what was then known as) hyperactivity, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolinas Bush Center for Child and Family Policy. His work then changed direction to focus on child and family policy, specifically the impact of alternative forms of public support on various child and family outcomes. He delivered more than 150 professional papers and presentations; written more than 100 trade and textbooks; and is the author of Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics (SAGE), Theories of Human Development (SAGE), and Exploring Research (Prentice Hall). He has edited several encyclopedias, including the Encyclopedia of Human Development, the Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics, and the Encyclopedia of Research Design. He was editor of Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography for 13 years. He lived in Lawrence, Kansas, where he liked to read, swim with the River City Sharks, work as the proprietor and sole employee of big boy press, bake brownies (see www.statisticsforpeople.com for the recipe), and poke around old Volvos and old houses.
SECTION 1: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Aging and Human Performance - Neil Charness Violence and Human Development - Elton Mcneil The Life-Course and Human Development: An ecological perspective - Glen Elder, Jr and Richard Rockwell The Family Conference: The social control of human development - David Buckholdt From Childhood to the Later Years: Pathways of human development - Robert Crosnoe and Glen Elder, Jr The Developmental Niche: A conceptualization at the interface of child and culture - Charles Super and Sara Harkness Conceptualizing Adult Development - Calvin Settlage, John Curtis, Marjorie Lozoff, Milton Lozoff, George Silberschatz and Earl Simburg Early Child Care and Children's Development Prior to School Entry: Results from the NICHD study of early child care - NICHD Early Child Care Research Network A developmental approach to language acquisition: two case studies - Michael Bamberg, Nancy Budwig and Bernard Kaplan Promoting Positive Youth Development: New directions in developmental theory, methods, and research - William Kurtines, Laura Ferrer-Wreder, Steven Berman, Carolyn Cass Lorente, Wendy Silverman and Marilyn Montgomery Children Have More Need of Models Than Critics: Early language experience and brain development - Travis Thompson Development: Transfer of technology, transfer of culture - Jacques Binet and Jeanne Ferguson The Clinical Study and Treatment of Normal and Abnormal Development: A psychological clinic - Lightner Witmer Self-Motivation for Academic Attainment: The role of self-efficacy beliefs and personal goal setting - Barry Zimmerman, Albert Bandura and Manuel Martinez-Pons The Dangerous and the Good? Developmentalism, Progress, and Public Schooling - Bernadette Baker The Scientific Humanism of G. Stanley Hall - Donald Meyer Growing Old - or Older and Growing - Carl Rogers Maturational Timing and the Development of Problem Behavior: Longitudinal studies in adolescence - Rainer Silbereisen, Anne Petersen, Helfried Albrecht and Barbel Kracke Motor Development as Foundation and Future of Developmental Psychology - Esther Thelen Physical Growth - Kai Jensen Mental Development During the Preadolescent and Adolescent Periods - Gordon Hendrickson Human Intelligence: An introduction to advances in theory and research - David Lohman SECTION 2: COGNITION, LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION Making Sense of Curriculum Evaluation: Continuities and discontinuities in an educational idea - David Hamilton Psychology of Learning Environments: Behavioral, structural, or perceptual? - Herbert Walberg Thought and Two Languages: The impact of bilingualism on cognitive development - Rafael Diaz Components of a Psychology of Instruction: Toward a science of design - Robert Glaser The Emergence of Cognitive Psychology - Robert Holt The Advancement of Learning - Ann Brown Paradigms of Knowledge and Instruction - Sylvia Farnham-Diggory Health Promotion by Social Cognitive Means - Albert Bandura Models of the Learner - Jerome Bruner Child's Talk: Learning to use language - Jerome Bruner The Reflexivity of Cognitive Science: The scientist as model of human nature - Jamie Cohen-Cole History, Culture, Learning, and Development - Patricia Greenfield, Ashley Maynard and Carla Childs Biology and Cognition - Jean Piaget and Martin Faigel Neural Bases of Intelligence and Training - Mark Rosenzweig Human Intelligence: An introduction to advances in theory and research - David Lohman Cognitive Demands of New Technologies and the Implications for Learning Theory - Richard Torraco Cognitive Conceptions of Learning - Thomas Shuell Meaning in Complex Learning - Ronald Johnson Phases of Meaningful Learning - Thomas Shuell Growth, Development, Learning, and Maturation as Factors in Curriculum and Teaching - William Trow SECTION 3: MOTIVATION