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brandsma: Brandsma school data used Snijders and Bosker (2012)

Description

Dataset with raw data from Snijders and Bosker (2012) containing data from 4106 pupils attending 216 schools. This dataset includes all pupils and schools with missing data.

Arguments

Format

brandsma is a data frame with 4106 rows and 14 columns:

sch

School number

pup

Pupil ID

iqv

IQ verbal

iqp

IQ performal

sex

Sex of pupil

ses

SES score of pupil

min

Minority member 0/1

rpg

Number of repeated groups, 0, 1, 2

lpr

language score PRE

lpo

language score POST

apr

Arithmetic score PRE

apo

Arithmetic score POST

den

Denomination classification 1-4 - at school level

ssi

School SES indicator - at school level

References

Brandsma, HP and Knuver, JWM (1989), Effects of school and classroom characteristics on pupil progress in language and arithmetic. International Journal of Educational Research, 13(7), 777 - 788.

Snijders, TAB and Bosker RJ (2012). Multilevel Analysis, 2nd Ed. Sage, Los Angeles, 2012.