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HCItestretest: Homeostasis concept inventory test-retest dataset

Description

HCItestretest) dataset consists of the responses of 45 students to Homeostasis Concept Inventory (HCI). It contains answers to 20 multiple-choice items, scored items, identifier of test/retest, total score, gender membership and identifier whether students plan to major in life sciences. The data are organized so that each pair of subsequent rows belongs to one student. Students took no courses on homeostasis between the test and retest.

Usage

data(HCItestretest)

Arguments

Format

HCItestretest is a data.frame consisting of 90 observations on the 44 variables.

A1-A20

Multiple-choice items of the HCI test.

QR1-QR20

Scored items of the HCI test, "0" incorrect, "1" correct.

test

Identifier of test vs retest, "test" test, "retest" retest after.

total

Total test score.

gender

Gender membership, "M" male, "F" female.

major

Identifier whether student plans to major in the life sciences.

References

McFarland, J. L., Price, R. M., Wenderoth, M. P., Martinkova, P., Cliff, W., Michael, J., ... & Wright, A. (2017). Development and validation of the homeostasis concept inventory. CBE-Life Sciences Education, 16(2), ar35. 10.1187/cbe.16-10-0305

See Also

HCIdata for HCI full dataset HCI for HCI dichotomous dataset HCItest for HCI multiple-choice dataset HCIkey for key of correct answers for HCI HCIgrads for HCI dataset of graduate students HCIprepost for HCI pretest and posttest scores