highschool_dropout: Chicago high school dropout rates.

Description Usage Format Details

Description

Chicago high school dropout rates from 1995 and associated variables like average students per teacher and percent low income students. All cues are real-valued but some have N/A values. It includes rows accidentally omitted in prior research.

Usage

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Format

A data frame.

Name

Name of School

Running_Number

Running Number

Included_in_Web_and_Web_Corrected

If 1, then this row was accidentally omitted in the ABC studies from 1993

Dropout_Rate

Dropout rate in percent, from 0 to 100, counting all students in grades 9 through 12 who left school permanently during the 1993-4 school year

Completeness_of_Data

Completeness of data

Enrollment

Enrollment as of September 30, 1993

Attendance_Rate

Attendance rate in percent, from 0 to 100, averaged over the school year

Graduation_Rate

Graduation rate in percent, from 0 to 100, based on freshmen who finished together 4 years later, in 1994

Parental_Involvement_Rate

Parental involvement rate in percent, from 0 to 100, counted as parents who had contact with teachers as a percent of students (with no firm state rules on how to measure this)

Limited_English_Students

Limited English Students in percent, from 0 to 100, based on the number of students found eligible for bilingual education

Low_Income_Students

Low Income Students in percent, from 0 to 100, based on families eligible for free or reduced price lunches or are publicly supported

Average_Class_Size_Student_per_Teacher

Calculated as number of students divided by number of teachers on the first day of May

Percent_White_Students

Percent white students, from 0 to 100

Percent_Black_Students

Percent black students, from 0 to 100

Percent_Hispanic_Students

Percent hispanic students, from 0 to 100

Percent_Asian_Students

Percent asian students, from 0 to 100

Percent_Minority_Teacher

Percent minority teacher, from 0 to 100

Average_Composite_ACT_Score

Average composite ACT Score

Reading

Reading score on Illinois Goal Assessment Program (IGAP)

Math

Math score on IGAP

Science

Science score on IGAP

Social_Science

Social science score on IGAP

Writing

Writing score on IGAP

Details

The data is based on:

Morton, Felicia B. (1995). Charting a School's Course. Chicago. February, pp. 86-95.

Rodkin, Dennis. (1995). 10 Keys for Creating Top High Schools. Chicago. February, pp. 78-85.

This is the data set used in simulations by the ABC (Adaptive Behavior and Cognition) research group.


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