# Star98 Educational Dataset¶

## Description¶

This data is on the California education policy and outcomes (STAR program results for 1998. The data measured standardized testing by the California Department of Education that required evaluation of 2nd - 11th grade students by the the Stanford 9 test on a variety of subjects. This dataset is at the level of the unified school district and consists of 303 cases. The binary response variable represents the number of 9th graders scoring over the national median value on the mathematics exam.

The data used in this example is only a subset of the original source.

## Notes¶

Number of Observations - 303 (counties in California).

Number of Variables - 13 and 8 interaction terms.

Definition of variables names::

NABOVE   - Total number of students above the national median for the
math section.
NBELOW   - Total number of students below the national median for the
math section.
LOWINC   - Percentage of low income students
PERASIAN - Percentage of Asian student
PERBLACK - Percentage of black students
PERHISP  - Percentage of Hispanic students
PERMINTE - Percentage of minority teachers
AVYRSEXP - Sum of teachers' years in educational service divided by the
number of teachers.
AVSALK   - Total salary budget including benefits divided by the number
of full-time teachers (in thousands)
PERSPENK - Per-pupil spending (in thousands)
PTRATIO  - Pupil-teacher ratio.
PCTAF    - Percentage of students taking UC/CSU prep courses
PCTCHRT  - Percentage of charter schools
PCTYRRND - Percentage of year-round schools

The below variables are interaction terms of the variables defined
above.

PERMINTE_AVYRSEXP
PEMINTE_AVSAL
AVYRSEXP_AVSAL
PERSPEN_PTRATIO
PERSPEN_PCTAF
PTRATIO_PCTAF
PERMINTE_AVTRSEXP_AVSAL
PERSPEN_PTRATIO_PCTAF


## Source¶

Jeff Gill’s Generalized Linear Models: A Unified Approach

http://jgill.wustl.edu/research/books.html