teachers {SDaA}

Elementary School Teacher Workload Data

Description

Selected variables from a study on elementary school teacher workload in Maricopa County, Arizona.

Usage

teachers

Format

data frame with the following 6 variables:

dist

school district size; factor with levels large and me/sm (medium/small)

school

school identifier

hrwork

number of hours required to work at school per week

size

class size

preprmin

minutes spent per week in school on preparation

assist

minutes per week that a teacher's aide works with the teacher in the classroom

Note

The study is described in Exercise 16 of Chapter 15. The psu sizes are given in teachmi. The large stratum had 245 schools; the small/medium stratum had 66 schools.

Source

Data courtesy of Rita Gnap (1995).

References

Gnap, R. (1995). Teacher load in Arizona elementary school districts in Maricopa County. Ph.D. diss., Arizona State University

Lohr (1999). Sampling: Design and Analysis, Duxbury, p. TODO and 446.