term: Student-level term data
In MIDFIELDR/midfielddata: MIDFIELD Data Sample

term	R Documentation

Student-level term data

Description

Student-level term information for approximately 98,000 undergraduates, keyed by student ID. Data at the "student-level" refers to information collected by undergraduate institutions about individual students, for example, program code, academic standing, and grade point average by term.

Usage

data(term)

Format

A data.frame and data.table with 13 variables and approximately 640,000 observations of 97,555 unique students occupying 73 MB of memory:

mcid: Character, anonymized student identifier, e.g., MCID3111142225.
institution: Character, anonymized institution name, e.g., Institution B.
term: Character, academic year and term, format YYYYT.
cip6: Character, 6-digit CIP code of program in which a student is enrolled in a term, e.g., 090101, 141201, 260901, 420101, etc.
level: Character, academic level determined by cumulative number of credit ours earned, e.g., 01 First-year, 02 Second-year, etc.
standing: Character, academic standing, e.g., Good Standing, Academic Warning, etc.
coop: Character, cooperative education term, possible values are Yes, No.
hours_term: Numeric, credit hours earned in the term.
hours_term_attempt: Numeric, credit hours attempted in the term.
hours_cumul: Numeric, cumulative credit hours earned.
hours_cumul_attempt: Numeric, cumulative credit hours attempted.
gpa_term: Numeric, term grade point average.
gpa_cumul: Numeric, cumulative grade point average.

Details

Term data are structured in block-record form, that is, records associated with a particular ID can span multiple rows—one record per student per term.

Terms are encoded YYYYT, where YYYY is the year at the start of the academic year and T encodes the semester or quarter within an academic year as Fall (1), Winter (2), Spring (3), and Summer (4, 5, and 6). For example, for academic year 1995–96, Fall 95–96 is encoded 19951, Spring 95–96 is encoded 19953, and the first Summer 95-96 term is encoded 19954. The source database includes special month-long sessions encoded with letters A, B, C, etc., though none are included in this sample.

For program codes, midfielddata uses the 2010 version of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP). If the midfieldr package is installed and loaded, type ?cip for details.

The data in midfielddata are a proportionate stratified sample of the MIDFIELD database, but are not suitable for drawing inferences about program attributes or student experiences—midfielddata provides practice data, not research data.

Source

2022 MIDFIELD database

Examples

## Not run: 

# Load data
data(term)

# Select specific rows and columns
rows_we_want <- term$mcid == "MCID3112192438"
cols_we_want <- c("mcid", "term", "cip6", "level", "standing", "gpa_cumul")

# View observations for this ID 
term[rows_we_want, cols_we_want] 


## End(Not run)

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