title: Early identification of young children at risk for poor academic achievement: preliminary development of a parent-report prediction tool.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Primary Care Pediatrics, State University of New York at Stony Brook and Stony Brook Long Island Children's Hospital, Stony Brook, NY, USA. susmita.pati@stonybrook.edu
authors.forename: Susmita
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pati
authors.forename: Kyleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hashim
authors.forename: Brett
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Alexander G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Fiks
authors.forename: Christopher B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Forrest
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000328:Adult; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004521:Educational Measurement; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D012307:Risk Factors; D012574:Schools; D055815:Young Adult