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Author: Brown, Brett
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1. Pati, Susmita
Hashim, Kyleen
Brown, Brett
Fiks, Alexander G.
Forrest, Christopher B.
Early Identification of Young Children at Risk for Poor Academic Achievement: Preliminary Development of a Parent-Report Prediction Tool
BMC Health Services Research 11 (2011): 197.
Also: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/11/197
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: BMC - BioMed Central
Keyword(s): Birthweight; Body Mass Index (BMI); CESD (Depression Scale); Child Care; Childhood Education, Early; Family Income; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Motor and Social Development (MSD); Neighborhood Effects; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Poverty; Television Viewing; Temperament

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Background: Early school success is clearly related to later health. A prediction index that uses parent report to assess children's risk for poor academic achievement could potentially direct targeted service delivery to improve child outcomes.

Methods: We obtained risk factors through literature review and used the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Child Files to examine the predictive associations of these factors with academic achievement scores.

Results: Twenty predictors were identified including four strong predictors (maternal education, child gender, family income, and low birth weight). Significantly, 12 predictors explained 17-24% of score variance.

Conclusions: Parent-reported factors provide predictive accuracy for academic achievement.

Bibliography Citation
Pati, Susmita, Kyleen Hashim, Brett Brown, Alexander G. Fiks and Christopher B. Forrest. "Early Identification of Young Children at Risk for Poor Academic Achievement: Preliminary Development of a Parent-Report Prediction Tool." BMC Health Services Research 11 (2011): 197.