Undergraduate Microeconomics Competency Assessment with 40 Items
by SALAS VELASCO, MANUEL / Harvard Dataverse·Updated 1mo ago
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Description
Student responses to a 40-item assessment measuring conceptual, graphical, and quantitative skills in microeconomics. The data supports replication of psychometric analyses, including Rasch modeling, as reported in the original study. It was authored by SALAS VELASCO, MANUEL and published via Harvard Dataverse.
Use Cases
Replicate psychometric analyses based on the 40-item assessment structure.
Conduct further methodological research on Rasch (1-parameter IRT) modeling using the provided student responses.
Analyze multidimensional microeconomic competencies (conceptual, graphical, quantitative) in undergraduate education.
Validate assessment instruments for economics education based on the documented test validation approach.
Strengths
Contains 40 assessment items, providing a detailed measure of student competencies.
Explicitly supports replication of the reported psychometric analyses, enhancing research reproducibility.
Focuses on three distinct skill dimensions: conceptual, graphical, and quantitative.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analyses.
Freshness should be verified; last update is 2026-05-11.
Provenance
Source
Harvard Dataverse
Collection Method
Likely collected via student assessment in an undergraduate microeconomics context.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-11 14:21:58.
License is unknown; terms of use must be verified before application.