Questions tagged [education]
For questions about data related to schools, universities, students, teaching.
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Where can I find dislocated worker program participation data by US county?
Where can I find U.S. displaced worker data, particularly during the Great Recession? I found sets from 1995 to 2008 and 2015 to recent. However, I'm having trouble finding data for 2008-2014, ...
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Global data about compulsory swimming lessons in schools or rates of population that can swim
I saw this post on Hacker News and was curious about a dataset that has information about countries and their approach to compulsory teaching of swimming.
There are many datasets about drowning rates ...
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How to find the variable in javascript which gives the positions of the competitors on the site sapsailing?
As part of my studies, I’m looking for a way to find the variable in the javascript representing the positions of competitors on this site to retrieve the data.
Thank you in advance
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College Scorecard: determining how representative data is of the overall undergraduate body
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The College Scorecard Documentation Report repeatedly mentions that some data only represents undergraduates that are recipients of Title IV federal aid:
Most of the metrics of ...
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Are 6-digit CIP codes available with associated Schools for College Score Card
I'm looking for a specific dataset.
In the Data Catalog there is a large set of data through the College Scorecard, this data includes a listing of 2-digit CIP codes and the number of offerings by ...
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Data set with education (in years) and psychological or other variables
I am looking for a data set that has education (in years, not categorized) and psychological variables such as depression, anxiety, optimism etc.
The education variable should, ideally, include ...
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French/English word database for a hangman game
I'm currently developing a Hangman game in English for a French website that teaches English. I'm looking for a database containing a set of English words, preferably common nouns or verbs of more ...
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Downloadable list of all majors across U.S. schools/colleges?
I am looking for a downloadable list of all MAJORS across U.S. schools/colleges and across education levels (Highschool, Undergraduate, Graduate, Masters, Phd, Doctorate, Certificate/Short Term)
I ...
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Books and Supplies
"Books and Supplies" is a component of the Estimated Cost of Attendance. I would like to get only the "Books and Supplies" data for a given institution from the "College Scorecard" data.
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Data on Australian universities
In the United States there's a great deal of information made public on universities, to help potential students, student loan recipients, employers, and whomever else to make informed decisions. Most ...
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Where can I find a data set on the federal student loan debt since at least 1965?
As the title says, I'm not sure where I can find the data set I'm looking for. I'm trying to explore the relationships between inflation rate, total student enrollment, and total amount of student ...
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Dataset about attainment of college degree based on parent's education level?
I am looking for a data about the attainment of college degree (response variable) based on the parent's education and other demographics.
This kind of data is e.g. referenced in Categorical Data ...
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List of all universities and colleges in the whole world [duplicate]
Is there any database or list that has the major US universities and colleges with the city/town, state they are located in?
Besides this, I am looking for a list of all universities and colleges in ...
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Missing College Scorecard data for Navy, Army, Air Force
I'm using the College Scorecard api to pull data for various schools. It seems that data for Army, Navy, and the U.S Air Force is not available. I tried querying the API using REGIONS = 0 (U.S. ...
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Data for teaching: Representative simple random sample in educational research
I´m searching for a gripping data set from educational research which is
a simple random sample (and therefore without weights)
representative
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to use for teaching. ...
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Public School Teacher Dataset
I'm looking for a dataset with information about public (and private, if possible) school teachers in the United States, including names, schools, and possibly any other identifying information such ...
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Schools in Canada
Is there a database of schools in Canada? Can you drop a link that would direct me to that database?
If this does not exist, would you by chance know if the provinces have such data for the schools ...
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USA States Schools data base
Seeking an open database of schools across the states in the USA. Ideally, this database includes the schools name, address, email address and telephone number.
Seeking this dataset because we are ...
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Derived variable origin
I was wondering how the variable SCH_DEG from College Scorecard was derived. What does it mean to the be the degree prominently awarded in terms of the actual #'s? Is it > 50% or more than that?
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Seeking US public school serving area boundaries
I am trying to get the serving area for public schools in US. I can get a lot of KML from the census website at https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-kml.html
However, it only has school ...
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Undergrad-Total Institutional Aid Received by school
Is there a data set out there that has OPEID with types and total aid received, specifically, Total Institutional Aid (if there others or all included, that's definitely ok)?
I've tried following the ...
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Looking for dataset on teachers' unions membership by school district
Specifically, I'm looking for data on the number of teachers belonging to a union for each county in Florida.
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Higher Education Graduations by U.S. County
The U.S. Census provides educational attainment statistics at county-level. This is a break-down of local population by level of educational attainment (high school, bachelor, etc.).
I am looking for ...
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Level of education required for employment over time
I want to get a data set that can be used to look at a year and the levels of education required for employment.
My thoughts are that although we have many more opportunities in the modern world the ...
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IPEDS variable for automatic admissions
Some colleges and universities offer automatic admission to students who meet minimum criterion. For example, University of Texas offers automatic admissions to Texas students that are in some top ...
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Is public information obtained through FOIA an example of Open Data?
I have collected information about a public school district in the U.S. I have obtained some of it through FOIA. Some of it was obtained from the district's website previously, although it is no ...
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Where can I find dataset for University acceptance rate for college athletes?
I'm looking for some data sets so that I can import it into my database and do some data analytics with that data. The main dataset I'm looking for is University acceptance rate, GPA of the accepted ...
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School Closing Due to Snow or Bad Weather [duplicate]
I am looking for a dataset that contains the amount of snow that will cause a school to close in the US either by school district, zip code, county or any subdivision smaller than state. I am familiar ...
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GRE results by graduating institution
To be clear, what I have in mind is the average GRE scores of students who have graduated from, or are attending a college and have taken the GRE (for whatever reason); data like:
U.C. Berkeley 700
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Where can I find subtitled recordings of university courses?
I'm doing a research on the language used by university professors and I'm looking for closed captioned videos from real university classes.
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International Education Spending
I am interested in looking at the relationship between money spent on education (by country) versus educational ranking (by country). I am looking for a database that shows something like amount of ...
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Comprehensive database of world universities
There are quite a lot of university rankings available on the web. Unfortunately, in most of them the data display is limited and is hard to extract systematically.
What are good sources for ...
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Case studies on community capacity to use or create open data?
I'm looking for detailed and objective accounts of projects etc, that include coverage of the skills and capacities of individuals and community organisations to harness open data. I am interested ...
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Intelligence quotient (IQ) data based on birthdate and/or other factors
Where can I find raw intelligence quotient (IQ) data, ideally with age/birthday/etc? I followed the links in the answer to IQ scores from individuals and their siblings and/or twins but nothing there ...
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Where can I find university/college addresses for the entire world?
I need to make an address locator to associate my data set to universities. In order to do this I need reference data that has the university addresses everywhere in the world. Can someone direct me ...
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Recent statistics for average percentage of first-generation college students at 4-year institutions?
I am looking for recent statistics on the average percentage of students at 4-year institutions who are first-generation. This is for a grant I am writing for a summer program intended to focus on ...
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Secondary schools Ireland, UK & Finland
Does someone know where to find the contact information of all the secondary schools of Ireland, Finland and UK? I am researching for schoolnames, place, e-mail and post adress. I found already some ...
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Dataset on molecular temperature / speed
I am looking for a dataset on molecular temperature / speed for educational uses, so students might model the Boltzmann distribution. Does anyone know of such a (publicly available) dataset?
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Open datasets for educational use
I'm interested in compiling open datasets for educational use. For example, this page from the State University of New York Geneseo includes open datasets by topic.
I'm especially interesting in ...
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looking for a list of certifications and licences relevant for US jobs
A similar question has been asked here: What are the different types of Degrees, Diplomas and Certifications and Industry types?, but the answer refers to a EU site, and the certifications are ...
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26 letters probability: how many combinations do you have to make? [closed]
How to calculate soccer result with propability
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Is there an open database of elementary, middle, and high schools with special education departments in the United States?
Is there an open database of elementary, middle, and high schools with special education departments in the United States?
I'm hopping to get names and addresses and if possible number of children ...
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Games for education [closed]
I'am searching a Open Data (free code) for Education Games,like Puzzle.Actually I need a game which present the context information and which is educative game for the children.I would like to use for ...
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Literacy rates of Asian countries
What are the literacy rates of Asian countries (Myanmar, Bhutan, Pakistan, China, Nepal) for last five censuses?
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Sustainability Contacts for Educational Facilities
I am looking for a list of the sustainability contacts at universities, colleges and private schools in New York state.
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Looking for zip codes and elevation of high schools
I'm researching United State zip codes and elevation. Specifically high schools elevations in US.
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California Private School Data
Where can I find California's private school data? I'm specifically interested in exploring whether or not these schools are offering Computer Science education formally–and informally.
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Affirmative action data for college admissions
Is there data out there on college admissions by race, entry GPA, SAT score, major, and ideally earnings after graduation?
Does such a dataset (or datasets) exist? Any standard format would be useful ...
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How do I get Google Analytics data for teaching college course?
Does anyone know how I can obtain a Google Analytics database for teaching undergraduates how to work with Google Analytics?
I don't have a commercial website which I can attach to, and I want to ...
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Funding data for US Department of Education CSV format
I am looking for data about the funding from the Department of Education, Energy and Defense. The data I want is the fund/award number, the PI, Co-PI (if any) and the award amount along with the year ...
