Educ8thData


   Math Proficiency Survey Results for 8th Graders in 2011 by State


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This package provides the user with the ability to quickly create Linked
Micromap plots of the 50 U.S. states and District of Columbia (51 areas).
Linked Micromap plots are visualizations of geo-referenced data that link statistical
graphics to an organized series of small maps.
The Help description contains examples of how to use the micromapST function.
This package contains the US and State boundary files and U. S. FIPS code to State conversion tables
used by the micromapST function and several data sets used in the micromapST examples.
Copyrighted 2013, 2014 and 2015 by Carr, Pearson and Pickle.

Jim Pearson

micromapST

Linked Micromap Plots for U. S. States

Educ8thData function

A data frame with 51 observations (one per state) on the following 7 variables.
  <dl>
    <dt><code>StAbbrev</code></dt><dd>a character string representing the 2 character state Id for this row.</dd> <dt><code>State</code></dt><dd>a character string factor of the state full name.</dd> <dt><code>avgscore</code></dt><dd>a numeric vector of average proficiency score for each state</dd> <dt><code>PctBelowBasic</code></dt><dd>a numeric vector of percentage of students with below basic scores</dd> <dt><code>PctAtBasic</code></dt><dd>a numeric vector of percentage of students at basic proficiency.</dd> <dt><code>PctProficient</code></dt><dd>a numeric vector of percentage of students at the proficient level</dd> <dt><code>PctAdvanced</code></dt><dd>a numeric vector of percentage of students scoring at the advanced level.</dd> </dl> 

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The National Center for Education Statistics, Department of Education
    http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/states/

Educ8thData: Education Survey of 8th Grade Proficiency in Math

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