November 14, 1997

The following changes to program filenames were made to reflect the contents of the User Guide.

In the CD for The file... Was renamed to...
Population 1 pop1\programs\awscore.sas pop1\programs\asascore.sas
Population 1 pop1\programs\awscore.sps pop1\programs\asascore.sps
Population 1 pop1\programs\apscore.sas pop1\programs\aspscore.sas
Population 1 pop1\programs\apscore.sps pop1\programs\aspscore.sps
Population 2 pop2\programs\bwscore.sas pop2\programs\bsascore.sas
Population 2 pop2\programs\bwscore.sps pop2\programs\bsascore.sps
Population 2 pop2\programs\bpscore.sas pop2\programs\bspscore.sas
Population 2 pop2\programs\bpscore.sps pop2\programs\bspscore.sps

These files were also saved in the CD in a format readable only with Notepad for Windows NT 4.0 (UNICODE). After renaming them they were saved as ASCII files.


November 18, 1997

The Student background almanac for Population 2 (7th and 8th graders) has been updated (BSGALM.LIS). The number of cases for the United States is not correct in the almanac file included in the CD. The correct number of cases in the Population 2 for the United States is 3886 at the lower grade and 7087 at the upper grade. This is reflected in the files available from this Web site.


January 23, 1998

The student background and student achievement data for the Phillipines (BSGPHL1.DAT and BSAPHL1.DAT) was updated. Six cases with INTIMSS=0 and scores of 999 (the missing value) were deleted.

 


 

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