timss.mean.pv: Calculates mean achievement score

Description Usage Arguments Value See Also Examples

View source: R/timss.mean.pv.R

Description

timss.mean.pv uses five plausible values to calculate the mean achievement score and its standard error

Usage

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timss.mean.pv(pvlabel = "BSMMAT", by, data, 
export = FALSE, name = "output", folder = getwd())
timss2015.mean.pv(pvlabel = "BSMMAT", by, data, 
export = FALSE, name = "output", folder = getwd())

Arguments

pvlabel

The label corresponding to the achievement variable, for example, "BSMMAT", for overall math performance in Grade 8.

by

The label for the grouping variable, usually the countries (i.e., by="IDCNTRYL"), but could be any other categorical variable.

data

An R object, normally a data frame, containing the data from TIMSS.

export

A logical value. If TRUE, the output is exported to a file in comma-separated value format (.csv) that can be opened from LibreOffice or Excel.

name

The name of the exported file.

folder

The folder where the exported file is located.

Value

timss.mean.pv returns a data frame with the mean values and standard errors.

See Also

pirls.mean.pv, pisa.mean.pv

Examples

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## Not run: 
# TIMSS G4: Exhibit 1.1 International report TIMSS, p. 40
timss.mean.pv(pvlabel="ASMMAT", by= "IDCNTRYL", data=timss4g)

# TIMSS G8: Exhibit 2.8 User Guide TIMSS 2011, p. 18
timss.mean.pv(pvlabel="BSMMAT", by= c("IDCNTRYL", "ITSEX"), data=timss8g)

## End(Not run)

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