Student-level term data

Student-level term information for approximately 98,000 undergraduates, keyed by student ID. Data at the "student-level" refers to information collected by undergraduate institutions about individual students, for example, program code, academic standing, and grade point average by term.

Usage

data(term)

Format

A data.frame and data.table with 13 variables and approximately 640,000 observations of 97,555 unique students occupying 73 MB of memory:

mcid

Character, anonymized student identifier, e.g., MCID3111142225.

institution

Character, de-identified institution name, e.g., Institution A, Institution B, etc.

term

Character, academic year and term, format YYYYT.

cip6

Character, 6-digit CIP code of program in which a student is enrolled in a term, e.g., 090101, 141201, 260901, 420101, etc.

level

Character, academic level determined by cumulative number of credit ours earned, e.g., 01 First-year, 02 Second-year, etc.

standing

Character, academic standing, e.g., Good Standing, Academic Warning, etc.

coop

Character, cooperative education term, possible values are Yes, No.

hours_term

Numeric, credit hours earned in the term.

hours_term_attempt

Numeric, credit hours attempted in the term.

hours_cumul

Numeric, cumulative credit hours earned.

hours_cumul_attempt

Numeric, cumulative credit hours attempted.

gpa_term

Numeric, term grade point average.

gpa_cumul

Numeric, cumulative grade point average.

Source

2022 MIDFIELD database

Details

Term data are structured in block-record form, that is, records associated with a particular ID can span multiple rows—one record per student per term.

Terms are encoded YYYYT, where YYYY is the year at the start of the academic year and T encodes the semester or quarter within an academic year as Fall (1), Winter (2), Spring (3), and Summer (4, 5, and 6). For example, for academic year 1995–96, Fall 95–96 is encoded 19951, Spring 95–96 is encoded 19953, and the first Summer 95-96 term is encoded 19954. The source database includes special month-long sessions encoded with letters A, B, C, etc., though none are included in this sample.

For program codes, midfielddata uses the 2010 version of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP). If the midfieldr package is installed and loaded, type ?cip for details.

The data in midfielddata are a proportionate stratified sample of the MIDFIELD database, but are not suitable for drawing inferences about program attributes or student experiences—midfielddata provides practice data, not research data.

See also

Package midfieldr for tools and methods for working with MIDFIELD data in R.

Other datasets: course, degree, student

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{

# Load data
data(term)

# Select specific rows and columns
rows_we_want <- term$mcid == "MCID3112192438"
cols_we_want <- c("mcid", "term", "cip6", "level", "standing", "gpa_cumul")

# View observations for this ID 
term[rows_we_want, cols_we_want] 

} # }