HCI: Homeostasis Concept Inventory dichotomous dataset

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Homeostasis Concept Inventory dichotomous dataset

Description

HCI dataset consists of the dichotomously scored responses of 651 students (405 males, 246 females) to Homeostasis Concept Inventory (HCI) multiple-choice test. It contains 20 items, vector of gender membership and identificator whether students plan to major in life sciences.

Usage

HCI

Format

HCI is a data.frame consisting of 651 observations on the 22 variables.

Item1-Item20

Dichotomously scored items of the HCI test.

gender

Gender membership, "0" males, "1" females.

major

Identificator whether student plans to major in the life sciences.

total

Total score

Author(s)

Jenny L. McFarland
Biology Department, Edmonds Community College

References

McFarland, J. L., Price, R. M., Wenderoth, M. P., Martinkova, P., Cliff, W., Michael, J., ... & Wright, A. (2017). Development and validation of the homeostasis concept inventory. CBE-Life Sciences Education, 16(2), ar35. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1187/cbe.16-10-0305")}

See Also

HCItest for HCI multiple-choice dataset
HCIkey for key of correct answers for HCI
HCIdata for HCI full dataset
HCIlong for HCI in a long format
HCIgrads for HCI dataset of graduate students
HCIprepost for HCI pretest and posttest scores
HCItestretest for HCI test-retest dataset


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