Chapter Five: Summary of Findings, Discussions, and Recommendations Introduction
Major Findings
The study set out to answer one major research question:
To what extent do student-(particularly race/ethnicity and
SES) and school-level factors influence student achievement?
A sub-confirmatory question is part of the study: Do
impoverished urban White students perform at comparable
levels to impoverished urban Minority students? Analyses
showed that Ethnicity and Poverty were significant predictors
of achievement not only for impoverished urban Minority
students as the extant literature suggests