176,009 responses from 3,780 respondents to 37 items.
| Description | Literacy data from an RCT |
|---|---|
| Reference | Romero, M., Sandefur, J., & Sandholtz, W. A. (2020). Outsourcing education: Experimental evidence from Liberia. American Economic Review, 110(2), 364-400. Romero, Mauricio; Sandefur, Justin; Sandholtz, Wayne, 2018, "Partnership Schools for Liberia", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5OPIYU, Harvard Dataverse, V4 |
| Licence | CC0 1.0 |
| Source data | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/5OPIYU |
| Responses | 176,009 |
|---|---|
| Respondents | 3,780 |
| Items | 37 |
| Response categories | 2 |
| Responses per respondent | 46.563 |
| Responses per item | 4,757 |
| Density | 1.258 |
| Longitudinal | TRUE |
| age range | Mixed |
|---|---|
| child age (for child-focused studies) | Child (6-12y), Adolescent (12-18y) |
| sample | Targeted/specific |
| construct type | Cognitive/educational |
| measurement tool | Test |
| item format | Likert Scale/selected response |
| primary language(s) | eng |
| construct name | Literacy Data from the Partnership Schools for Liberia RCT |
This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.
| Instrument | Partnership Schools for Liberia student assessment, reading and English test (Romero, Sandefur & Sandholtz 2020) |
|---|---|
| Mean words per item | 4.946 |
| Mean characters per item | 23.838 |
| Mean characters per response | 2 |
| Flesch-Kincaid grade level | 1.041 |
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Or load it directly in R or Python:
# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("gilbert_meta_13")
# Python
pip install irw
import irw
df = irw.fetch("gilbert_meta_13")
| IRW version | v393 |
|---|---|
| Redivis dataset | item_response_warehouse v53.0 |
| Redivis dataset DOI | 10.57761/4g08-xt41 |
| Manifest pin for this IRW version | v53.0 |
| Metadata source | irw_meta v23.0 |