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MCAS-Analysis

09/2023 - 01/2024

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Description: Relationship between income and standardized test performance


What is this about:

This research explores the relationship between explore the relationship between household income and standardized test performance. Our interest is in investigating how demographic predictors correspond to test results. The achievement gap is a prominent and ongoing socio-economic issue within education, so we expect our analysis to support the hypothesis that lower mean family income is correlated with lower MCAS scores and SAT scores.

Where is the dataset from?

  1. Massachusetts Public Schools Date from Kaggle.
  2. The HTML table from this Wikipedia page, List of Massachusetts locations by per capita income.

Instructions:

  1. Read more about the abstract from here.
  2. Read the presentation slides from here.
  3. See the R source code from here.