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Peer reviewedGrenier, Charles E.; Roundtree, George A. – Journal of Offender Counseling, Services & Rehabilitation, 1987
Studied 100 clients of the East Baton Rouge Parish Family Court to develop predictive model for identifying offenders at high risk for recidivism. Found important predictor variables to be presence of delinquent siblings or friends, school problems, type of offense committed, and gender of delinquent. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Crime, Delinquency, Friendship
Peer reviewedPlas, Jeanne M.; Cook, Valerie J. – Psychology in the Schools, 1982
Surveyed school professionals with a variety of psychology and education roles. Identified variables that could capture 75 percent of the variance associated with their desire to work with special education adolescents. Variables included perceptions of quality of special education training, age, sex, and attitudes toward special need adolescents.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitude Measures, Attitudes, Motivation
Peer reviewedSuinn, Richard M.; Edwards, Ruth – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1982
Describes the Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale for Adolescents (MARS-A). Discusses psychometric data that relate to reliability and construct validity of the MARS-A scale. Results showed the association between high mathematics anxiety scale scores and low grade average in mathematics courses reported on two samples of students. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Rating Scales, Diagnostic Tests, Grades (Scholastic)
Download full textEnger, John M.; And Others – 1993
In response to concerns about the academic and discipline problems of young black male students in a small southern town, the Positive Impact Program (PIP) was developed for at-risk black males. Two possible at-risk factors, locus of control and the quality of parental verbal interaction, were studied for participants in the PIP. Locus of control…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth
