HS.ability.data: Holzinger & Swineford (1939) Ability in 301 children from 2...

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Holzinger & Swineford (1939) Ability in 301 children from 2 schools

Description

This classic data set contains of intelligence-test scores from 301 children on 26 tests of cognitive ability.

The tests cover mental speed, memory, mathematical-ability, spatial, and verbal ability as listed below.

The data are also available in the MBESS package.

Usage

data("HS.ability.data")

Format

A data frame comprising 301 observations on 22 variables:

id

student ID number (int)

Gender

Sex (Factor w/ 2 levels “Female” and “Male”)

grade

Grade in school (integer 7 or 8)

agey

Age in years (integer)

agem

Age in months (integer)

school

School attended (Factor w/2 levels “Grant-White” and “Pasteur”)

addition

A speed test of addition (numeric)

code

A speed test (numeric)

counting

A speed test of counting groups of dots (numeric)

straight

A speed test discriminating straight and curved capitals (numeric)

wordr

A memory subtest of word recognition

numberr

A memory subtest of number recognition

figurer

A memory subtest of figure recognition

object

A memory subtest: object-number test

numberf

A memory subtest: number-figure test

figurew

A memory subtest: figure-word test

deduct

A mathematical subtest of deduction

numeric

A mathematical subtest of numerical puzzles

problemr

A mathematical subtest of problem reasoning

series

A mathematical subtest of series completion

arithmet

A mathematical subtest: Woody-McCall mixed fundamentals, form I

visual

A spatial subtest of visual perception

cubes

A spatial subtest

paper

A spatial subtest paper form board

flags

A spatial subtest (also known as lozenges)

paperrev

A spatial subtest additional paper form board test (can substitute for paper)

flagssub

A spatial subtest additional lozenges test (can substitute for flags)

general

A verbal subtest of general information

paragrap

A verbal subtest of paragraph comprehension

sentence

A verbal subtest of sentence completion

wordc

A verbal subtest of word classification

wordm

A verbal subtest of word meaning

Details

The data are from children who differ in grade (seventh- and eighth-grade) and are nested in one of two schools (Pasteur and Grant-White). You will see it in use elsewhere, both in R (lavaan, and MBESS), and in Joreskog (1969) reporting a CFA on the Grant-White school subject subset.

Some tests are alternate or substitute forms, e.g. paperrev (a paper form board test) can substitute for paper and flagssub for the lozenges test flags.

Source

Holzinger, K., and Swineford, F. (1939).

References

Holzinger, K., and Swineford, F. (1939). A study in factor analysis: The stability of a bifactor solution. Supplementary Educational Monograph, no. 48. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Joreskog, K. G. (1969). A general approach to confirmatory maximum likelihood factor analysis. Psychometrika, 34, 183-202.

Examples

data(HS.ability.data)
str(HS.ability.data)
levels(HS.ability.data$school)
plot(flags ~ flagssub, data = HS.ability.data)

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