electric_teachers: Teachers of Electric Circuits Professional Development

In li-xinran/RIQITE: Randomization Inference for Quantiles of Individual Treatment Effects

Teachers of Electric Circuits Professional Development

Description

This dataset describes the baseline and final test scores on a test measuring the knowledge of electric circuits given to teachers who were part of a randomized controlled trial of a professional development program.

The trial had three treatment arms (different approaches to the professional development) and a control arm.

The gain (post score - pre score) for all teachers is the change in the percentage point correct on the test of electric circuit knowledge (we call this "content knowledge").

See Heller, J. I., Daehler, K. R., Wong, N., Shinohara, M., & Miratrix, L. W. (2012). Differential effects of three professional development models on teacher knowledge and student achievement in elementary science. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 49(3), 333–362. doi: 10.1002/tea.21004

See report on ERIC at https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED514193.pdf

Usage

electric_teachers

Format

A data frame with 233 rows and 7 variables:

Site

character - Site ID (city where teachers were recruited). Randomization occured within site.

T.ID

double - Teacher ID

Tx

character - Treatment group. "D" is control.

TxAny

double - Flag for any treatment (main analysis did not find major differences of PD approach.)

Per.1

double - Baseline knowledge (percent correct)

Per.2

double - Endline knowledge (percent correct)

gain

double - Total gain from pre to post.

Details

Not all treatments were given in a site; PD program was delivered to classes of teachers. Teachers individually randomized to class, but there could be class (or PD teacher) effects.

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