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Peters, S. Colby; Woolley, Michael E. – Children & Schools, 2015
Data from the School Success Profile generated by 19,228 middle and high school students were organized into three broad categories of risk and protective factors--control, support, and challenge--to examine the relative and combined power of aggregate scale scores in each category so as to predict academic success. It was hypothesized that higher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Success, Risk, Risk Assessment
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Seto, Michael C. – Psychological Assessment, 2005
The present study was conducted to determine whether combining the results of multiple actuarial risk scales increases accuracy in predicting sex offender recidivism. Multiple methods of combining 4 validated actuarial risk scales--the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide, the Sex Offender Risk Appraisal Guide, the Rapid Risk Assessment for Sexual…
Descriptors: Recidivism, Sexual Abuse, Risk, Predictive Measurement