Conference Session

Diversity, Inclusion, and Access

Collection

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

Authors

Casey Lynn Haney, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Brenden Christopher Drinkard-McFarland, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access

(SES) correlated to student’s numeracy?Method/ApproachThis paper performs a multilevel ordinal regression on the Uwezo dataset to determine ifa correlation is present between math score and household educational assets. TheUwezo dataset was previously gathered through multi-stage sampling, including levelsof district, enumeration area, household, and individual. All districts in Kenya wereincluded in the dataset, and thirty enumeration areas were selected from each districtbased on probability proportion equal to size (PPS) [17]. Twenty households wereselected in each enumeration area. The total number of students surveyed was190,470.Every N/20th household was selected, where N is the total number of households [18].Data from each household