pisa.be.2003: Belgian school childrens' math efficacy and measured ability...

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Description

Data from the OECD's 2003 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in Belgium.

Also included are 80 so-called "replicate weights" calculated by Westat which must be accounted for using complex survey procedures.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 8796 observations of 102 variables.

PV1MATH1

"Plausible values" for child's overall math ability (imputation 1).

PV1MATH2

"Plausible values" for child's overall math ability (imputation 2).

PV1MATH3

"Plausible values" for child's overall math ability (imputation 3).

PV1MATH4

"Plausible values" for child's overall math ability (imputation 4).

ST31Q01

Feel confident doing task: "timetable" 1 (very) - 4 (not at all).

ST31Q02

Feel confident doing task: "discount" (1-4).

ST31Q03

Feel confident doing task: "area" (1-4).

ST31Q04

Feel confident doing task: "graphs" (1-4).

ST31Q05

Feel confident doing task: "linear" (1-4).

ST31Q06

Feel confident doing task: "distance" (1-4).

ST31Q07

Feel confident doing task: "quadratics" (1-4).

ST31Q08

Feel confident doing task: "rate" (1-4).

ST32Q02

"I am just not good at Mathematics" 1 (strongly agree) - 4 (strongly disagree).

ST32Q04

"I get good marks in Mathematics" (1-4).

ST32Q06

"I learn Mathematics quickly" (1-4).

ST32Q07

"I have always believed that Mathematics is one of my best subjects" (1-4).

ST32Q09

"In my Mathematics class, I understand even the most difficult work" (1-4).

ESCS

Index of Socio-Economic and Cultural Status.

male

Gender (1=Female, 2=male).

school.type

Difficulty level of secondary studies (1-3).

W_FSTUWT

Overall survey weight for students.

W_FSTR1

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR2

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR3

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR4

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR5

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR6

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR7

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR8

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR9

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR10

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR11

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR12

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR13

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR14

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR15

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR16

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR17

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR18

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR19

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR20

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR21

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR22

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR23

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR24

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR25

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR26

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR27

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR28

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR29

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR30

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR31

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR32

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR33

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR34

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR35

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR36

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR37

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR38

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR39

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR40

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR41

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR42

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR43

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR44

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR45

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR46

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR47

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR48

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR49

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR50

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR51

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR52

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR53

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR54

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR55

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR56

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR57

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR58

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR59

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR60

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR61

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR62

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR63

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR64

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR65

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR66

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR67

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR68

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR69

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR70

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR71

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR72

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR73

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR74

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR75

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR76

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR77

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR78

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR79

BRR replicate.

W_FSTR80

BRR replicate.

WVARSTRR

Randomized final variance stratum (1-80).

Author(s)

Daniel Oberski - http://daob.nl/ - daniel.oberski@gmail.com

Source

This dataset was retrieved from http://www.oecd.org/pisa/ and converted to an R dataset.

For more information regarding the variables and the model estimated below, please see Ferla et al. (2009) and/or the PISA manual (OECD, 2009).

References

Ferla J, Valcke M, Cai Y (2009). "Academic Self-Efficacy and Academic Self- Concept: Reconsidering Structural Relationships." Learning and Individual Differences, 19(4), 499-505.

Oberski, D.L. (2014). lavaan.survey: An R Package for Complex Survey Analysis of Structural Equation Models. Journal of Statistical Software, 57(1), 1-27. http://www.jstatsoft.org/v57/i01/.

OECD (2009). PISA Data Analysis Manual: SPSS and SAS. 2nd edition. OECD.

See Also

lavaan.survey

Examples

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  data(pisa.be.2003)


  # Simplified version of Ferla et al. (2009) model.
  model.pisa <- "
      math =~ PV1MATH1 + PV1MATH2 + PV1MATH3 + PV1MATH4
      neg.efficacy =~ ST31Q01 + ST31Q02 + ST31Q03 + ST31Q04 + 
                      ST31Q05 + ST31Q06 + ST31Q07 + ST31Q08
      neg.selfconcept =~ ST32Q02 + ST32Q04 + ST32Q06 + ST32Q07 + ST32Q09
  
      neg.selfconcept ~ neg.efficacy + ESCS + male
      neg.efficacy ~ neg.selfconcept + school.type + ESCS + male
      math ~ neg.selfconcept + neg.efficacy + school.type + ESCS + male
  "
  
  # Fit the model using lavaan
  fit <- lavaan(model.pisa, data = pisa.be.2003, auto.var = TRUE, std.lv = TRUE,
    meanstructure = TRUE, int.ov.free = TRUE, estimator = "MLM")
  
  ## Not run due to CRAN policies, 
  ##    uncomment below to account for replicate weights:
  
  ## Define the survey design using the BRR replicate weights provided by PISA
  ##   Note that these settings will work for _any_ analysis of PISA data...
  #des.rep <- svrepdesign(ids = ~1, weights = ~W_FSTUWT, data = pisa.be.2003, 
  #  repweights = "W_FSTR[0-9]+", type = "Fay", rho = 0.5)
  
  ## Fit the SEM model accounting for replicate weights
  #fit.surv <- lavaan.survey(lavaan.fit = fit, survey.design =  des.rep)
  
  #fit # Show fitmeasures results
  #fit.surv # Show fitmeasures results

Example output

Loading required package: lavaan
This is lavaan 0.6-7
lavaan is BETA software! Please report any bugs.
Loading required package: survey
Loading required package: grid
Loading required package: Matrix
Loading required package: survival

Attaching package:surveyThe following object is masked frompackage:graphics:

    dotchart

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