| fcat {nlmeU} | R Documentation |
fcat Data (4851 x 3)
Description
Data from Flemish Community Attainment-Targets (FCAT) Study
Format
The fcat data frame has 4851 rows and 3 columns
- target
a factor with 9 levels
T1(4),T2(6),T3(8),T4(5),T5(9), ...,T9(5)- id
a factor with 539 levels
1,2,3,4,5, ...,539- scorec
an integer vector with values from 0 to 9
Details
An educational study, in which elementary school graduates were evaluated with respect to reading comprehension in Dutch. Pupils from randomly selected schools were assessed for a set of nine attainment targets. The dataset is an example of grouped data, for which the grouping factors are crossed.
Source
Janssen, R., Tuerlinckx, F., Meulders, M., & De Boeck, P. (2000). A hierarchical IRT model for criterion-referenced measurement. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics. 25(3), 285.
Examples
summary(fcat)