Course data for examples

Selected variables modeled on those in the course practice data for use in package examples and articles. Sampled from an early version of the practice data, the toy data are not a current practice data sample.

Usage

toy_course

Format

data.table with 5863 rows and 12 columns keyed by student ID:

mcid

Character, de-identified student ID. Key column.

institution

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

term

Character, academic year and term, format YYYYT. Key column.

course

Character, course name, e.g., Astrophysics III, Calculus For Social Science And Business, Corp Financial Rprtng 1, Environmental Sanitation II, Fitness and Wellness, Introductory Astronomy 2, Our Changing Environment, etc.

abbrev

Character, course alphabetical identifier, e.g. ENGR, MATH, ENGL. Key column.

number

Character, course numeric identifier, e.g. 101, 3429. Key column.

section

Character, course section identifier, from one to four characters, e.g., 1, 2, 01, 14, 001, 040, 785, H02, R01, 300E, 888R, etc.

type

Character, predominant delivery method for this section, e.g., Blended, Distance Education, Face-to-Face, Online, etc.

faculty_rank

Character, academic rank of the person teaching the course, e.g., Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Graduate Assistant, Visiting Faculty, etc.

hours_course

Numeric, number of credit-hours for successful course completion.

grade

Character, course grade, e.g., A+, A, A-, B+, I, NG, etc.

discipline_midfield

Character, a variable for grouping courses by academic discipline assigned by the pre-2023 MIDFIELD data curator, e.g., Anthropology, Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Language and Literature, Mathematics,Visual and Performing Arts, etc.

See also

Other toy-data: toy_degree, toy_student, toy_term