Competition
Analyzing the Effectiveness of Test Preparation Courses
This competition is designed to help you get started with DataCamp Competitions and familiarize yourself with how competitions work. Your best friend is an administrator at a large school. The school makes every student take year-end math, reading, and writing exams. Since you have recently learned data manipulation and plotting, you suggest helping your friend analyze the score results. The school's principal wants to know if test preparation courses are helpful. She also wants to explore the effect of parental education level on test scores.
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- What are the average reading scores for students with/without the test preparation course?
- What are the average scores for the different parental education levels?
- Create plots to visualize findings for questions 1 and 2.
- [Optional] Look at the effects within subgroups. Compare the average scores for students with/without the test preparation course for different parental education levels (e.g., faceted plots).
- [Optional 2] The principal wants to know if kids who perform well on one subject also score well on the others. Look at the correlations between scores.
- Summarize your findings.
How to get started
Create your most insightful analysis using DataLab, our in-browser tool to write, run, and publish data analyses. Once you’ve finished your work, you’ll need to publish it for review.
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This competition is for helping to understand how competitions work. This competition will not be judged.
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- Your publication should be focused on data provided within the competition.
- The competition is open and free to registered DataCamp users.
- Only one entry per user. You may update your entry up to the deadline.
- Make sure your competition workbook is published by the competition deadline in order for it to be valid.
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