dataMedicaltest {ShinyItemAnalysis}R Documentation

Dataset of admission test to medical school

Description

The dataMedicaltest 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, possible answers were A, B, C, D, while any combination of these can be correct.

Usage

dataMedicaltest

Format

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

X

The first 100 columns represent items answers.

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(), dataMedicalkey(), dataMedicalgraded()


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