The third step involved examining the relationship between Spanish performance at the end of second grade and English performance at the end of third grade and end of fourth grade through a series of regression analyses. This technique allowed us to test the relationships between initial factors (initial reading performance in Spanish) and outcome factors (performance in English reading at the end of third and fourth grades), controlling for initial performance on other factors that could influence this relationship. Using regression analysis, we were able to assess the relationship between second-grade Spanish reading and third- and fourth-grade English.
