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MSATB: Dichotomous Data Set of Medical School Admission Test in Biology

Description

The MSATB data set consists of the responses of 1,407 subjects (484 males, 923 females) to admission test to medical school in Czech republic. It contains 20 selected items from original test while first item was previously detected as differently functioning (Vlckova, 2014). A correct answer is coded as 1 and incorrect answer as 0. The column gender represents gender of students, where 0 represents males (reference group) and 1 represents females (focal group).

Usage

data(MSATB)

Arguments

Format

A MSATB data frame consists of 1,407 observations on the following 21 variables. The first 20 columns represent dichotomously scored items of the test. The 21st column is vector of group membership; values 0 and 1 refer to males (reference group) and females (focal group).

References

Drabinova, A. & Martinkova P. (2017). Detection of Differential Item Functioning with NonLinear Regression: Non-IRT Approach Accounting for Guessing. Journal of Educational Measurement, 54(4), 498-517, https://doi.org/10.1111/jedm.12158.

Vlckova, K. (2014). Test and Item Fairness (Unpublished master's thesis).

See Also

MSATBtest, MSATBkey