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On this page, you will find resources that support my recent book, Introduction to Quantitative Analysis for International Educators (Springer, 2022).
Errata
Errata
As many authors know, the best way to find errors in one's work is to publish it. This section offers a list of errata corresponding to this book. Note that page numbers correspond to the printed version of the book.
Page 80:
In Table 6.1, the standard deviation calculations corresponding to the X variable and the Y variable are switched. Standard deviation for Variable X is 8.38 and standard deviation for Variable Y is 482.31.
Page 134:
Printed text: "When I calculated the average marginal effect for total enrollment corresponding to the logistic regression model in Table 8.7, I ended up with a very small number: 0.00000854. This number indicates that with an increase of 1000 students, the probability that a community college would offer study abroad increases by about 0.000854 percentage points (notice that the decimal point moves to the right two places in this interpretation) or by 0.00000854 on a proportion scale."
Corrected text: "When I calculated the average marginal effect for total enrollment corresponding to the logistic regression model in Table 8.7, I ended up with a very small number: 0.009051. This number indicates that with an increase of 1000 students, the probability that a community college would offer study abroad increases by about 0.9051 percentage points (notice that the decimal point moves to the right two places in this interpretation) or by 0.009051 on a proportion scale."
Additional Quantitative Data Sources
Additional Quantitative Data Sources
The data sources listed here are publicly-available (at least to a certain extent) and may be of use to researchers exploring international education topics using quantitative approaches. This list is by no means exhaustive and I have more experience with some datasets compared to others. Please email me (melissa.whatley@sit.edu) to suggest a data source that should be added to this list. I particularly welcome sources that do not focus on the US context - as this is my own, personal research context, it is by default overrepresented in this list.
The US National Center for Education Statistics' Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System collates survey data representing almost all of the postsecondary institutions in the United States. Variables of interest to international education researchers include international student enrollment, international faculty employment, and study abroad program offering.
The Institute of International Education's annual Open Doors report provides data on international student and scholar mobility to and from the United States. While the publicly available data provided on the Open Doors website is of limited usefulness because only a subset of institutions is represented, full institution-level datasets are available to individuals who work at institutions that are part of the IIENetwork.
The World Bank's STEP Skills Measurement Program data provide information related to job skills, the labor market, education, and other background and personal characteristics in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Colombia, Georgia, Ghana, Kenya, Kosovo, Lao PDR, Macedonia, Serbia, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Vietnam, and the Yunnan Province in China. These data are particularly useful for comparative work.
The World Bank additionally provides a number of datasets related to a wide variety of international development topics, including education.
UNESCO also provides a number of datasets related to education around the world.
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) provides data on international student and scholar mobility to/from Germany.
The OECD provides data on educational attainment, educational resources, international student assessment, teachers, students, and the labor market in a number of countries.
The Institute of International Education's Project Atlas provides data on international student mobility across 25 countries.
The European Tertiary Education Register (ETER) provides data about higher education institutions in Europe (e.g., institutional finances, personnel, students, graduation outcomes, etc)
This website is a list complied by the US National Center for Education Statistics of international education statistics websites.
The Canadian Bureau for International Education provides international student mobility to and from Canada.
Patlani provides information about international student mobility to and from Mexico.
The Sistema de Información y Gestión Educativa provides institution-level data about higher education institutions in Mexico.
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