MCAS

a cross-section from 1997-1998 number of observations : 220 observation : schools country : United States

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Spencer Graves

Ecdat

Data Sets for Econometrics

MCAS function

A dataframe containing :
 <dl>
 <dt>code</dt><dd>district code (numerical)</dd> <dt>municipa</dt><dd>municipality (name)</dd> <dt>district</dt><dd>district name</dd> <dt>regday</dt><dd>spending per pupil, regular</dd> <dt>specneed</dt><dd>spending per pupil, special needs</dd> <dt>bilingua</dt><dd>spending per pupil, bilingual</dd> <dt>occupday</dt><dd>spending per pupil, occupational</dd> <dt>totday</dt><dd>spending per pupil, total</dd> <dt>spc</dt><dd>students per computer</dd> <dt>speced</dt><dd>special education students</dd> <dt>lnchpct</dt><dd>eligible for free or reduced price lunch</dd> <dt>tchratio</dt><dd>students per teacher</dd> <dt>percap</dt><dd>per capita income</dd> <dt>totsc4</dt><dd>4th grade score (math+english+science)</dd> <dt>totsc8</dt><dd>8th grade score (math+english+science)</dd> <dt>avgsalary</dt><dd>average teacher salary</dd> <dt>pctel</dt><dd>percent english learnersh</dd> </dl>

Format

Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), Massachusets Department of Education, 1990 U.S. Census. 

Source

a cross-section from 1997-1998

 number of observations : 220

 observation : schools

 country : United States

MCAS: The Massashusets Test Score Data Set

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