dataMedicalgraded {ShinyItemAnalysis}

Graded dataset of admission test to medical school

Description

The dataMedicalgraded dataset consists of the responses of 2,392 subjects (750 males, 1,633 females and 9 subjects without gender specification) to multiple-choice admission test to a medical school. It contains 100 items. Each item is graded with 0 to 4 points. Maximum of 4 points were set if all correct answers and none of incorrect answers were selected.

Usage

dataMedicalgraded

Format

A dataMedicalgraded is a data.frame consisting of 2,392 observations on the following 102 variables.

X

The first 100 columns represent ordinal item scores 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

dataMedical(), dataMedicaltest(), dataMedicalkey()