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  • Title: Community health indicators predicting adolescent academic achievement.
    Author: Baker SR, Davis BL.
    Journal: ABNF J; 2001; 12(4):83-8. PubMed ID: 11760620.
    Abstract:
    Throughout the literature investigating adolescent academic achievement, little or no attention has been focused on indicators of community health as factors that share variance with academic achievement. The purpose of this study was to conduct exploratory analyses using indicators of community health to investigate adolescent academic achievement. This study employed hierarchical linear multiple regression to explain variations in adolescent academic achievement as measured by standardized tests for two different school years. The unit of analyses was the school district with the standardized test results of 8th grade students as academic achievement. The first model of the school district for school year 1997-98 accounted for almost 58% of the variance in adolescent academic achievement. This model was replicated on a different school year and it accounted for almost 63% of the variance in adolescent academic achievement. These strong models hold great promise for future investigations of adolescent academic achievement using indicators of community health and other community contextual variables.
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