EDH 7916: Contemporary Research in Higher Education

Summer 2020 (Session C)

A course in quantitative research workflow for students in the higher education administration program at the University of Florida

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Assignment 2

  

  1. Create a new top-level subdirectory in your course directory (i.e., the same level as scripts, data, and figures) called tables.
  2. Take a screenshot of your RStudio application that shows this new folder in the Files facet and name it <lastname>_assignment_2_screenshot.* (where * is whatever file type your screenshot is in: png, jpg, etc).

Using template.R (and organizing.R for help), create a script that does the following tasks — be sure your script is well organized:

  1. Rename it to <lastname>_assignment_2.R and put it in your scripts folder if its not already there.
  2. Fill in all relevant header information about the script.
  3. Load the tidyverse library
  4. Create objects/macros with the paths to the following directories:
    • data
    • figures
    • tables
  5. Include the old_to_new_score_ratio macro, but change it to a new value.
  6. Include the old_to_new_score() function from class as is (just cut and paste).
  7. Read in the data set, test_scores.RDS.
  8. Create a new column called test_scores_new_2 that converts the original test scores to updated values using your new ratio and the old_to_new_score() function.
  9. Save the updated data file in your data directory with a new name. You should now have three files: the original, the updated one from the organizing lesson, and the one you just made.

NOTE When all is said and done, your new script should look much like the organizing.R script, but with your changes.

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