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I´m searching for a gripping data set from educational research which is

  • a simple random sample (and therefore without weights)
  • representative
  • and available as public-usefile

to use for teaching. Any suggestions?

EDIT: I`m teaching introductory statistics to undergrats, which are (student) teachers. Representative means, that the demographic covariates of the sample are equally distributed to the population.

sammerk
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    Sorry, your question is unclear, please [edit] it. What is representative? What should be the sample size? In what format? Why gripping (says nothing)? For teaching what? Why from educational research? Please read this to improve your question. –  Nov 07 '17 at 14:12
  • is this an oer question? – albert Nov 07 '17 at 15:13
  • Please bear in mind that this is an international website and specify the country/education system you would like the data set to be representative of. – eigenvector Dec 13 '17 at 10:09

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Since you go with statistical analysis, I recommend the R-Datasets. They are usually small and statistically interesting: https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/datasets/html/00Index.html

They are not necessarily representative in a bigger context, but they represent one given experiment/survey.

Famous datasets my lecturers used for statistics are: Iris, Titanic, MTCars, Anscombe

EDIT similar question: Data sets for teaching

Rick
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    Thank's for this answer. I'm already aware of these datasets and think it is great that they are implemented into R. Nevertheless I understand my students who say "I'm not interested in the distribution of petals length, I'm interested in the distribution of student's literacy and it's relation to ....". – sammerk Nov 09 '17 at 10:59