Automating GPA and Hours for administrative purposes, University of Houston: the 'coogs' package

In the realm of institutional effectiveness, it is often necessary to batch process the hours earned and gpas of both the content area and cumulative area for undergraduates that are applying for particular majors in certain programs of study. Such calculations involve many students applying at one time for majors. Therefore, one can either calculate tens to hundreds of students at a time or automate the process.

To ease the process through automation, I have created a function in R called 'bulkgpa' in the 'coogs' package, available to the institutional effectiveness community at the College of Education at the University of Houston.

The function is a hard worker. It takes three raw files directly from peoplesoft queries and cleanses them by eliminating unneeded columns, duplicated rows, and eliminates classes that have drop dates associated with them.

Argument slots are created for raw data excel spreadsheets including transfer classes, transfer hours, UH courses, and the content areas for which content gpa must be calculated. Since different classes qualify for content gpa based on content areas, the fourth argument slot makes available user input to specify the content area for the content gpa calculation. Below is a list of possible options. When typing in the content area, case and spelling should be observed from the list below.

core-ec-6

art-ec-12

dance-6-12

math-4-8

math-7-12

elar-4-8

elar-7-12

chemistry-8-12

LOTE-spanish-ec-12

physics-math-7-12

life-science-7-12

physical-science-7-12

bilingual-generalist-ec-6

science

social-science

sped-ed-12

journalism

Digital Humanities Methods in Educational Research

Digital Humanities based education Research This is a backpost from 2017. During that year, I presented my latest work at the 2017 SERA conference in Division II (Instruction, Cognition, and Learning). The title of my paper was "A Return to the Pahl (1978) School Leavers Study: A Distanced Reading Analysis." There are several motivations behind this study, including Cheon et al. (2013) from my alma mater . This paper accomplished two objectives. First, I engaged previous claims made about the United States' equivalent of high school graduates on the Isle of Sheppey, UK, in the late 1970s. Second, I used emerging digital methods to arrive at conclusions about relationships between unemployment, participants' feelings about their (then) current selves, their possible selves, and their educational accomplishm ents. I n the image to the left I show a Ward Hierarchical Cluster reflecting the stylometrics of 153 essay

Creating Examination Question Banks for ESL Civics Students based on U.S. Form M-638

R and Latex Code in the Service of Exam Questions The following webpage is under development and will grow with more information. The author abides by the GPL (>= 2) license provided by the "ProfessR" package by showing basic code, but not altering it. The code that is provided here is governed by the MIT license, copyright 2018, while respecting the GPL (>=2) license. Rationale Apart from the limited choices of open sourced, online curriculum building for adult ESL students (viz. elcivics.com), there is a current need to create open-sourced assessments for various levels of student understandings of the English language. While the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship) has valuable lessons for beginning and intermediate ESL civics learners, there exists a need to provide more robust assessments, especially for individuals repeating ESL-based civics courses. This is because the risks and efforts involved in applying for U

Getting past the two column PDF to extract text into RQDA: Literature reviews await

One of the great promises of working with RQDA is conceiving of it as computer assisted literature review software. This requires balancing the right amount of coding with text that can be used as warrants and backing in arguments. In theory it is a great idea--using computer assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) for literature reviews, but how do you get the article PDFs into R and RQDA in a human readable format? By this I mean that many empirical articles are written in two column formats, and text extraction with standard tools produces text on the diagonal. Extracting PDF texts under this circumstance can be daunting when using some R packages such as 'pdftools', either with or without the assistance of the 'tesseract' package. If you are working on a windows based computer, you can install three packages and Java to do the trick. First gather the literature articles that you would like to mark up in RQDA. Put them into a folder, and away you go.

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