Item Response Warehouse / Tables / zou_2025_task_difficultyzou_2025_task_difficulty
3,015 responses from 201 respondents to 5 items.
About this table
Description Perceived task-difficulty ratings (5 items, 7-pt Likert) from 201 college students across 3 writing tasks of varying complexity (repeated measure, wave=task order). Reference Zou et al. (2025). How does task complexity and task difficulty affect college students' writing performance? Critical thinking disposition. PLOS ONE. DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0324486 Licence CC BY 4.0 Source data https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0324486
Size and shape
Responses 3,015 Respondents 201 Items 5 Response categories 7 Responses per respondent 15 Responses per item 603 Density 3 Longitudinal TRUE
Classification
sample Educational measurement tool Survey/questionnaire item format Likert Scale/selected response primary language(s) chi
Columns
cov_gender cov_major id item resp wave
Get the data
Or load it directly in R or Python:
# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("zou_2025_task_difficulty")
# Python
pip install irw
import irw
df = irw.fetch("zou_2025_task_difficulty")
Version and provenance
IRW version v393 Redivis dataset item_response_warehouse_4 v7.0 Redivis dataset DOI 10.57761/cpj5-vm97 Manifest pin for this IRW version v7.0 Metadata source irw_meta v23.0
Part of the Item Response Warehouse , IRW v393. This page describes the table as released in item_response_warehouse_4 v7.0.