The paper is the fifth of a series of working papers developed by a project which conducted a cooperative study of existing student study team (SST) processes in nine California special education local plan areas. The working papers augment the final report by providing detailed descriptions of the methods used and the preliminary findings. This paper describes the procedures used by project staff in the treatment of student information collected on the California individual student record form (Form 13). The procedures are described in four sections. The first covers the examination of student records and classification into categories. The second describes procedures used to identify those student records suitable for analysis. The third section describes the coding of the narrative content of the student records and the final section describes the procedures of data entry and data analysis. An appendix contains the complete individual record survey form. (DB)