Ramey C T, Stedman D J, Borders-Patterson A, Mengel W
Am J Ment Defic. 1978 May;82(6):525-34.
Information available from birth certificates was used to predict the psychological and educational status of approximately 1,000 randomly sampled first-grade children. The purpose of the research was to explore the feasibility of using birth certificate information as a cost-effective mechanism to identify children who were likely to need special educational services at public school entry. Multiple-regression and discriminant-function analyses revealed the following factors to be important in predicting psychoeducational status: birth order, race, educational status of the mother, month prenatal care began, survivorship of older siblings, and the child's legitimacy.
从出生证明中获取的信息被用于预测大约1000名随机抽取的一年级儿童的心理和教育状况。该研究的目的是探索将出生证明信息作为一种经济高效的机制，以识别那些在进入公立学校时可能需要特殊教育服务的儿童的可行性。多元回归和判别函数分析表明，以下因素在预测心理教育状况方面很重要：出生顺序、种族、母亲的教育状况、产前护理开始的月份、年长兄弟姐妹的存活情况以及孩子的合法性。
