High school graduation outcomes of student threat assessment

• NCJ Number: 304954
• Journal: Preventing School Failure Dated: 2021
• Author(s): S. Stohlman; Et Al
• Date Published: 2021
• Grant Number(s): 2014-CK-BX-0004
• Agencies: NIJ-Sponsored
• Award: Student Threat Assessment as a Safe and Supportive Prevention Strategy

Annotation

This article describes the rationale, procedures, and empirical support for the Comprehensive School Threat Assessment Guidelines and also presents new findings from a study of graduation rates for 146 students who received a threat assessment in two large school districts.

 

Abstract

School threat assessment is a violence prevention strategy that has become widely used over the past 20 years; however, the procedures for a threat assessment are not well-known in education and it has received relatively little research attention. The graduation rate for the students in the current study was 83%, which was lower than the graduation rate for the general school population but comparable to the rate for control students with similar risk factors. (Publisher Abstract Provided)