Publications by Steve Hoffman

Final 2024 Part 3 Master

22.12.2024

Final Project Part 3 Fall 2024 Purpose of the Data-Analytic Memo Here we will show off the skills that you’ve acquired on DAMs 3 & 5 – using public data to better understand educational achievement in the USA. Again, we will use the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Data Explorer at nationsreportcard.gov/ndecore/landing. And o...

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Final Project 2024 Part 3

09.12.2024

Final Project Part 3 Fall 2024 Purpose of the Data-Analytic Memo Here we will show off the skills that you’ve acquired on DAMs 3 & 5 – using public data to better understand educational achievement in the USA. Again, we will use the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Data Explorer at nationsreportcard.gov/ndecore/landing. And o...

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Final Project 2024 Part 2

07.12.2024

Final Project Part 2 Author Hoffman Look through “Class Slides On Error” https://rpubs.com/HoffmanMiddlebury/1236516 These class slides on error can be helpful as you work through this part of your Final Project. Purpose of this Data-Analytic Memo Once again we continue analyses on behalf of the 3rd-grade teachers at Lindquist Elementary S...

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DAM5b_Assignment_Fall2024

15.11.2024

DAM5b Assignment Fall 2024 Purpose of the Data-Analytic Memo Here we will continue where we left off on DAM 5a using public data to better understand educational achievement in the USA. Again, you are asked to produce a report for your home state – Connecticut, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, or Verm...

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DAM5a_Assignment_Fall2024

10.11.2024

DAM5a Assignment Fall 2024 Purpose of the Data-Analytic Memo Here we will continue where we left off on DAM 3 using public data to better understand educational achievement in the USA. Again, we will use the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Data Explorer at nationsreportcard.gov/ndecore/landing. And once again we will focus on 8t...

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DAM4_Assignment_Fall2024

01.11.2024

DAM4_Assignment_Fall2024 Author Hoffman Purpose of the Data-Analytic Memo We again continue analyses on behalf of the 3rd-grade teachers at Lindquist Elementary School in Hometown, USA. Ms. Affolter, Mr. Miller-Lane, and Ms. Weston plan their instruction together often. The first quarter of instruction has ended now, and they have asked us t...

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EDST0213 Slides on Error

24.10.2024

Class Slides on Error Hoffman Error Credit to Professor Dan Koretz of Harvard University for many of these explanations. One of the most important concepts in measurement and statistics is the notion of error. And it appears in many contexts: the “margin of error” reported in polls reports of “statistically significant” research finding...

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DAM3_Assignment_Fall2024

17.10.2024

DAM4 Assignment Fall2023 Author Hoffman Purpose of the Data-Analytic Memo One of my goals for this course is to give you an opportunity to use public data to better understand educational achievement in the USA. To that end, we’ve looked at many of the websites describing the National Assessment of Educational Progress, including “A Technic...

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DAM2_Assignment_Fall2024

03.10.2024

DAM2_Assignment_Fall2024 Author Steve Hoffman Purpose of the Data-Analytic Memo Here we continue analyses on behalf of the 3rd-grade teachers at Lindquist Elementary School in Hometown, USA. Ms. Affolter, Mr. Miller-Lane, and Ms. Weston plan their instruction together often. After the first month of school they compiled scores for a comprehe...

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DAM4_Fall2024_exemplar

30.09.2024

DAM1_Exemplar_Fall2024 Author EDST0213a Exemplar The following is an exemplar of a Data-Analytic Memo (DAM1) for the Fall 2024 semester. This exemplar is a combination of everyone’s code. Please don’t use this as the “right” answer. But you can find good ideas from everyone. We will continue to hone our skills – and our expectations...

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