| dataMedical {ShinyItemAnalysis} | R Documentation |
Dichotomous dataset of admission test to medical school
Description
The dataMedical dataset consists of the responses of 2,392 subjects (750
males, 1,633 females and 9 subjects without gender specification) to
admission test to a medical school. It contains 100 items. A correct answer
is coded as "1" and incorrect answer as "0". Missing answers were
evaluated as incorrect, i.e. "0".
Usage
dataMedical
Format
A dataMedical is a data.frame consisting of 2,392 observations on
the following 102 variables.
- X
The first 100 columns represent dichotomously scored items of the test.
- gender
Variable describing gender; values
"0"and"1"refer to males and females.- StudySuccess
Criterion variable; value
"1"means that student studies standardly,"0"otherwise (e.g., leaving or interrupting studies).
Source
Stuka, C., Vejrazka, M., Martinkova, P., Komenda, M., & Stepanek, L. (2016). The use of test and item analysis for improvement of tests. Workshop held at conference MEFANET, 2016, Brno, Czech Republic.
References
Martinkova, P., & Drabinova, A. (2018). ShinyItemAnalysis for teaching psychometrics and to enforce routine analysis of educational tests. The R Journal, 10(2), 503–515, doi:10.32614/RJ-2018-074
See Also
dataMedicaltest(), dataMedicalkey(), dataMedicalgraded()