Small 'course' dataset for examples

A subset of rows from the midfielddata course table matching the IDs in toy_student. A small dataset for use in examples.

Usage

toy_course

Format

Data frame with 8950 rows and 12 columns (data.table class). Composite key: {mcid, term_course, abbrev, number}.

mcid

Character. Anonymized student identifier that connects the four data tables, e.g., "MCID3111142897."

term_course

Character. Academic year and term, encoded YYYYT.

abbrev

Character. Course alphabetical identifier, e.g. "ENGR", "MATH", "ENGL."

number

Character. Course numeric identifier, e.g. "101", "3429."

institution

Character. The anonymized name of the institution the student attended in a given term, e.g., "Institution A", "Institution B", etc.

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.

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. The 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