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Nearly 50 individuals from research organizations, government agencies, universities, and private foundations participated in the workshop. During the course of the workshop, participants reviewed recent research findings, identified gaps in knowledge and promising areas of future research, and discussed the need for program evaluation and the integration of empirical research findings into program design.
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· There are major gaps in knowledge about the causal pathways linking school performance to delinquency. Participants discussed the need for further research, especially research that utilizes longitudinal designs and tests multiple competing and alternative theoretical perspectives.
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The report next turns to the relationship between school performance and delinquency. Workshop participants explored a number of key mediating factors, among them delinquent peer associations, peer rejection, social isolation, cognitive and behavioral deficits, learning and emotional disabilities, and family management.
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