qscores: Student course evaluations from Harvard
In davidkane9/PPBDS.data: Data for Preceptor's Primer for Bayesian Data Science

Description Usage Format Details Author(s) Source

Data for student feedback on Harvard courses. After each semester, the office of the Registrar at Harvard sends all students the so-called Q Guide, where students submit both quantitative and qualitative data about their courses. The primary observations of our data set are the overall rating of the course, as well as the workload.

qscores

A tibble with 748 observations and 8 variables:

name: character variable with name of course
department: character variable with course department
number: character variable with course number
term: character variable with values "2018-Fall" and "2019-Spring"
enrollment: integer variable with course enrollment
hours: numeric variable representing hours per week of workload, outside of class time
rating: numeric variable representing average of students' rating of course (1 to 5 scale), with higher numbers indicating a higher rating
instructor: character variable with name of instructor

The data source — skimmed from the Q Guide web app — does not support data for courses that are primarily taught in individual sections. As such, large courses like freshman Expository Writing (taught in 15-person sections) do not have data available. The data set has also been filtered to only include courses with more than 15 registered students.

Table: Data summary


Name	qscores
Number of rows	748
Number of columns	8
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Column type frequency:
character	5
numeric	3
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Group variables	None

Variable type: character

skim_variable	n_missing	complete_rate	min	max	empty	n_unique	whitespace
name	0	1	4	97	0	687	0
department	0	1	2	8	0	86	0
number	0	1	1	6	0	504	0
term	0	1	9	11	0	2	0
instructor	0	1	5	32	0	509	0

Variable type: numeric

skim_variable	n_missing	complete_rate	mean	sd	p0	p25	p50	p75	p100	hist
enrollment	0	1	50.82	70.38	16	21.00	29.0	49.0	744.0	▇▁▁▁▁
hours	0	1	6.17	3.48	1	3.77	5.2	7.6	22.5	▇▅▂▁▁
rating	0	1	4.18	0.52	1	3.90	4.2	4.5	5.0	▁▁▁▇▇