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STAR Project Data
Description
Data from the STAR (Student–Teacher Achievement Ratio) Project, a four-year longitudinal study examining the effect of class size in early grade levels on educational performance and personal development
Usage
data("STAR")
Format
A data frame with 6325 rows and 6 variables:
race: black or white
classtype: kindergarten class type: small, regular, regular with aid
yearssmall: number of years (0 to 4) in small classes
hsgrad: high-school graduation (graduated or not). NOTE: There are many NAs
g4math: total scaled score for the math portion of the fourth-grade standardized test
g4reading: total scaled score for the reading portion of the fourth-grade standardized test
References
Imai, Kosuke. 2017. Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction. Princeton University Press. URL from whence these data were added to this package.
Mosteller, Frederick. 1997. “The Tennessee Study of Class Size in the Early School Grades.” Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 50(7): 14-25. doi = 10.2307/3824562