The Skeptical Researcher

Create Your Own Mental Disorder!

Accept defeat: The neuroscience of screwing up

Avoidable waste in the production and reporting of research evidence

The Skeptical Educator

Learning theories implicit in medical school lectures (oldie but goodie)

Arguing to learn in science: The role of collaborative, critical discourse

Innovation in public education: Problems and opportunities

Changing behaviors to improve health

More employers eye changes to health benefits to improve worker health behavior (survey)

Health Literacy, eHealth, and Communication: Putting the Consumer First

Measures of Health Literacy, Institute of Medicine

Making Health Communication Programs Work (an update of the classic guide), National Cancer Institute

Program planning and evaluation

Program Evaluation: A Variety of Rigorous Methods Can Help Identify Effective Interventions; Government Accountability Office

W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook

The Importance of External Validity, American Journal of Public Health

Evaluation Primer on Health Risk Communication Programs, from the DHHS Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry

Evaluating Occupational Health and Safety Research Programs, NIOSH

Youth and media

Living and Learning with New Media, MacArthur Foundation Digital Youth Project

Generation M²: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year Olds, Kaiser Family Foundation

Youth aggression and violence

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Juvenile Justice Bulletin (latest data on juvenile arrests and trends)

Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2010

FBI report: The School Shooter: A Threat Assessment Perspective

The Final Report and Findings of the Safe School Initiative: Implications for the Prevention of School Attacks in the United States, from the U.S. Secret Service

Deadly Lessons: Understanding Lethal School Violence, National Academies Press