fcat: fcat Data (4851 x 3)

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fcat Data (4851 x 3)

Description

Data from Flemish Community Attainment-Targets (FCAT) Study

Usage

fcat

Format

A data frame with 4851 rows and 3 columns:

target

A factor with 9 levels: T1(4), T2(6), T3(8), T4(5), T5(9), ..., T9(5)

id

A factor with 539 levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ..., 539

scorec

An integer vector with values from 0 to 9

Details

An educational study, in which elementary school graduates were evaluated with respect to reading comprehension in Dutch. Pupils from randomly selected schools were assessed for a set of nine attainment targets. The dataset is an example of grouped data, for which the grouping factors are crossed.

Source

Janssen, R., Tuerlinckx, F., Meulders, M., & De Boeck, P. (2000). A hierarchical IRT model for criterion-referenced measurement. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 25(3), 285.

Examples

data(fcat, package = "nlmeU")
summary(fcat)

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