tScores: Test scores of 3054 test scores of 1174 students in 60 schools
Description
A dataset containing student achievement scores on a statewide mathematics test between 1994 and 2000 in Dallas, Texas.
Due to privacy protection the data is a simulated dataset based on the variance-covariance matrix of the real dataset.
The variables are as follows:
- Intecept - intercept.
- SID - school ID. Runs from 1 to 60.
- CID - student ID. Runs from 1 to 1174.
- TLI - the mathematics test score.
- GRADE_3 - grade level minus 3.
- RETAINED - whether a student was retained in the same grade.
- SWITCHSC - whetehr a student switched schools during the previous year.
- S_FREELU - the proportion of students at each school who were eligible for a free or reduced-price lunch program.
- FEMALE - dummy variable, 1 if felmale student, 0 if male student.
- BLACK - dummy variable indicating whether the student is African-American.
- HISPANIC - dummy variable indicating whether the student is Hispanic.
- OTHER - dummy variable equal to 1 if the student is neither Caucasian, nor African-American, nor Hispanic.
- C_COHORT - the cohort the student belongs to.
- T_EXPERI - represents the average years of experience of teachers in a given school.
- CLASS_SI - represents the average class size in a given school.
- P_MINORI - represents the percentage of minority students in a given school.
Format
A data frame with 3054 rows and 16 variables.