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TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE
			
		Introduction										1

		The General Approach									1

		The Comparative Situation:  Grade levels 5/2000 vs. 5/2001					1

		The research strategy									2

		Instrumentation										2

		Sampling and Comparability									3

		The Analytic Approach									3

		Conceptual Considerations									3

		Technical considerations									4

			Data quality and other constraints							4
			Achievement scores								4
			Estimating one-year gain								5

		Descriptive results										5
			Quantitative characteristics of the study						5
			Scope of the grade 5 samples							5

		Student Achievements in a context								5
			Levels of achievement at different grade levels, by gender				5
			Family SES									6
			General achievement and family socio-economic status					7
			General achievement and other background conditions					8

		Further descriptive information								8
			Differences between the grade 5 samples, and grade levels				8
			Teaching practices as described by students (discriminant analyses)			8	
		Conclusions concerning the descriptive results							9

		A Discriminant Analysis approach								10
			School-related variables								11
			Teacher and instruction-related variables						12
			Student-related variables								14

		Conclusion										15	


								

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