r2lh (version 0.7)

examCheating: ~ Data: Exam Cheating at French University ~

Description

This data set results from an enquiry led by some second year Students from the Paris X - Nanterre University. They built up a questionnaire to measure fraud during exams at the University. This is not a valid questionnaire, just an exercise done by some students on a topic they chose -to make learning statistics more interactive (more fun ?)-.

Usage

data(examCheating)

Format

A data frame with 314 observations on the following 20 variables.

Id

Line identification

Age

What is your age ?

Gender

What is your gender ?

YearOfStudy

What is your studying year ? Note: In European University, the studies are split in two cycles. The first one called "Licence" lasts three years (L1, L2 then L3). The second one called "Master" (M1 then M2) comes after the licence and takes two years.

Field

What do you study ? Note:LEA is "Foreigh langage", SEGMI is "Math and Economics", SJAP is "Law", SSA is "Social and Administrative Sciences", STAPS is "Sports"

RepeatingYear

Did you ever take a class twice ? In France, a student who failed at the final exam will be proposed to take the same year of study once again.

Bac

What grade did you get at Bac ? Bac is a french national exam that takes place between high school and university. The possible results are Fail Remedial exam Pass Fairly good Good Very good Summa cum laude

Peep

Did you ever peep during exams ?

Whispering

Did you ever whisper to neighbors during exams ?

PaperSwapping

Did you ever swap rough paper during exams ?

CribSheet

Did you ever use crib sheet ?

SMS

Did you ever send SMS during exams ?

LapCopying

Did you ever lap copy during exams ?

PaperKeeping

Did you ever keep your paper ?

PreparingRoom

Did you ever prepare the exam room or the toilets before exams ?

ExamStealing

Did you ever steal the exam subject before the exam ?

Other

Did you use some other way of cheating ?

BacCheat

Did you cheat during the Bac ?

HighSchoolCheat

Did you cheat during you high school studies ?

CheatScore

Sum of all the cheating variables

with convention Never=0 Rarely=1 Sometimes=2 Often=3 Always=4

Author

Christophe Genolini PSIGIAM: Paris Sud Innovation Group in Adolescent Mental Health INSERM U669 / Maison de Solenn / Paris

Author (students)

L2 (2007-2008) groups TD1 and TD2

English correction

Jean-Marc Chamot Laboratoire "Sport & Culture" / "Sports & Culture" Laboratory University of Paris 10 / Nanterre

References

LaTeX web site http://www.latex-project.org/ Data are available on line: http://christophe.genolini.free.fr/EPO/EPO2007-Fraude.php

See Also

r2latexUniv-package, r2lh-package, r2latexUniv, r2latexBiv, r2htmlUniv, r2htmlBiv, Sweave, latex

Examples

data(examCheating)
str(examCheating)