Dataset: Beyond Achievement: A Vignette Experiment on How Intersecting Student Characteris

N. Drent's dataset contains anonymized survey data from a vignette experiment with 140 secondary school teachers in the Netherlands. Data were collected between April and July 2025 via an online Qualtrics survey, resulting in 721 vignette evaluations. Teachers evaluated hypothetical students with systematically varied characteristics and reported their academic expectations and transfer recommendations.

Use Cases

• Analyze the influence of socioeconomic status (SES) on teacher expectations based on the varied vignette characteristics.
• Study the effect of student work effort on teacher transfer recommendations as described in the experiment.
• Investigate how intersecting characteristics like ethnic background and gender shape teacher judgments.
• Model teacher decision-making in secondary school track placement based on the systematic vignette variations.

Strengths

• 721 vignette evaluations provide a substantial sample for analysis.
• Data collection was systematic, varying student characteristics like SES, ethnic background, gender, work effort, and track-type.
• All participants gave active informed consent for data sharing, and responses were anonymized before archiving.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is known (721), but the number of unique columns and specific variable definitions are unknown.
• The dataset's focus on hypothetical vignettes may not fully reflect real-world teacher-student interactions.

Provenance

Source

N. Drent, DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities Collection

Collection Method

Online Qualtrics survey for a vignette experiment.

Time Range

April to July 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-09 08:11:04

Geography

Netherlands