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SWMDK: SWMDK Data Subset

Description

A subset of the COOL5-18 data (see below) with scores of 639 pupils nested in 30 classes on the 7-item Schaal Welbevinden Met Docenten [Scale Well-Being With Teachers] and 6-item Schaal Welbevinden met Klasgenoten [Scale Well-Being With Classmates] (Peetsma et al., 2001; Zijsling et al., 2017). See attributes(SWMDK) for the original item labels and content. R-code to get this subsample is available as online supplement to Koopman et al. (in press a).

Usage

data(SWMDK)

Arguments

Format

A 639 by 14 data frame containing integers. The first column reflects a classroom indicator, the remaining columns the 13 items, see colnames(SWMDK).

Details

Each item has five ordered answer categories from not true at all (score 0) to completely true (score 4).

ItemShortContent
Item1lv_wdo1The teachers usually know how I feel
Item2lv_wdo2I can talk about problems with the teachers
Item3lv_wdo3If I feel unhappy, I can talk to the teachers about it
Item4lv_wdo4I feel at ease with the teachers
Item5lv_wdo5The teachers understand me
Item6lv_wdo6I have good contact with the teachers
Item7lv_wdo7I would prefer to have other teachers (inversely coded)
Item8lv_wkl1I have a lot of contact with my classmates
Item9lv_wkl2I would prefer to be in a different class (inversely coded)
Item10lv_wkl3We have a nice class
Item11lv_wkl4I get along well with my classmates
Item12lv_wkl5I sometimes feel alone in the class (inversely coded)
Item13lv_wkl6I enjoy hanging out with my classmates

The items were translated from Dutch. For the original items, see pp. 79-83 in Zijsling et al. (2017). The first seven items are also available in dataset SWMD.

References

Koopman, L., Zijlstra, B. J. H., & Van der Ark, L. A. (in press a). A two-step, test-guided Mokken scale analysis for nonclustered and clustered data. Quality of Life Research. (advanced online publication) tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1007/s11136-021-02840-2")

Peetsma, T. T. D., Wagenaar, E., & De Kat, E. (2001). School motivation, future time perspective and well-being of high school students in segregated and integrated schools in the Netherlands and the role of ethnic self-description. In J. Koppen, I. Lunt, & C. Wulf (Eds.), Education in Europe. Cultures, Values, Institutions in Transition (pp. 54-74). Waxmann.

Zijsling, D., Keuning, J., Keizer-Mittelhaeuser, M.-A., Naaijer, H., & Timmermans, A. (2017). Cohortonderzoek COOL5-18: Technisch rapport meting VO-3 in 2014. Onderwijs/Onderzoek.

See Also

coefH, MLcoefH, ICC, SWMD

Examples

Run this code
# Data example (Koopman et al., in press)
data(SWMDK)

# Item content, see labels
attributes(SWMDK)$labels

# Compute ICC
ICC(SWMDK)

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