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ShinyItemAnalysis (version 1.3.4)

dataMedical: 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

data(dataMedical)

Arguments

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).

References

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.

See Also

dataMedicaltest, dataMedicalkey, dataMedicalgraded