A subset of the mathematics scores from the U.S. Sustaining Effects Study.
The subset consists of information on 1721 students from 60 schools. This
dataset is available in the mlmRev
package.
data(egsingle)
A data frame with 7230 observations on the following 12 variables.
schoolid
a factor of school identifiers
childid
a factor of student identifiers
year
a numeric vector indicating the year of the test
grade
a numeric vector indicating the student's grade
math
a numeric vector of test scores on the IRT scale score metric
retained
a factor with levels 0
1
indicating if
the student has been retained in a grade.
female
a factor with levels Female
Male
black
a factor with levels 0
1
indicating if the student is Black
hispanic
a factor with levels 0
1
indicating if the student is Hispanic
size
a numeric vector indicating the number of students enrolled in the school
lowinc
a numeric vector giving the percentage of low-income students in the school
mobility
a numeric vector
Doran, H.C. and J.R. Lockwood (2006). ``Fitting value-added models in R,'' Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 31(1)