Optometry Student Debate Endorsement Data from 2013 to 2022

Brian Foutch collected raw pre- and post-debate endorsement data from seven cohorts of third-year optometry students between 2013 and 2022. The students participated in debates on public health and eye care issues. The dataset is a 15.2 KB XLSX file shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze shifts in student opinion on public health topics based on debate participation mentioned in the description
• Study the effectiveness of structured debates in optometry education based on endorsement data
• Model factors influencing opinion change in a professional student cohort based on the described data collection

Strengths

• Data spans a 9-year period from 2013 to 2022, providing longitudinal insight.
• Includes seven distinct cohorts of students, allowing for cohort-level analysis.
• Explicitly contains pre- and post-debate measurements for tracking change.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small at 15.2 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

Brian Foutch via figshare

Collection Method

Collected from third-year optometry students participating in structured debates.

Time Range

2013–2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 20:12:09; freshness should be verified.