Project 1: Standardized Testing, Statistical Summaries and Inference
The new format for the SAT was released in March 2016. As an employee of the College Board - the organization that administers the SAT - you are a part of a team that tracks statewide participation and recommends where money is best spent to improve SAT participation rates. Your presentation and report should be geared toward non-technical executives with the College Board and you will use the provided data and outside research to make recommendations about how the College Board might work to increase the participation rate in a state of your choice.
This project has two provided 2017 test score datasets, the 2018 test score datasets were obtain through SAT and ACT official website. Through the project, three new combined datasets were generated.
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| Feature | Type | Dataset | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| state | object | sat_2017.csv | Name of the state |
| 17_sat_participation | float64 | sat_2017.csv | 2017 SAT Participation Rate |
| 17_sat_ebrw | int64 | sat_2017.csv | 2017 SAT Verbal Score |
| 17_sat_math | int64 | sat_2017.csv | 2017 SAT Math Score |
| 17_sat_total | int64 | act_2017.csv | 2017 SAT Total Score |
| 17_act_participation | float64 | act_2017.csv | 2017 ACT Participation Rate |
| 17_act_english | float64 | act_2017.csv | 2017 ACT English Score |
| 17_act_math | float64 | act_2017.csv | 2017 ACT Math Score |
| 17_act_reading | float64 | act_2017.csv | 2017 ACT Reading Score |
| 17_act_science | float64 | act_2017.csv | 2017 ACT Science Score |
| 17_act_composite | float64 | act_2017.csv | 2017 ACT Composite Score |
| 18_sat_participation | float64 | sat_2018.csv | 2018 SAT Participation |
| 18_sat_ebrw | int64 | sat_2018.csv | 2018 SAT Verbal Score |
| 18_sat_math | int64 | sat_2018.csv | 2018 SAT Math Score |
| 18_sat_total | int64 | sat_2018.csv | 2018 SAT Total Score |
| 18_act_participation | float64 | ACT_2018.csv | 2018 ACT Participation Rate |