HCIlong {ShinyItemAnalysis}R Documentation

Homeostasis Concept Inventory in a long format

Description

HCIlong 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 (in a long format), vector of gender membership and identificator whether students plan to major in life sciences.

Usage

HCIlong

Format

HCIlong is a data.frame consisting of 13,020 rows and 5 variables.

id

Row number of the original observation in a wide format.

item

Name of the item the rating is for.

rating

Response to the item.

gender

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

major

Identificator whether student plans to major in the life sciences.

total

Total score

zscore

Standardized total score (Z-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. doi:10.1187/cbe.16-10-0305

See Also

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


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