21.12137/F6DTYC Erentaitė, Rasa Rasa Erentaitė https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7006-637X Research Group – Civil Society and Sustainability, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [Project Leader] Sevalneva, Daiva Daiva Sevalneva Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [Project Member; Data curation] Vosylis, Rimantas Rimantas Vosylis https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1582-5991 Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [Project Member; Data curation] Melnikė, Eglė Eglė Melnikė Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [Project Member] Morkevičius, Vaidas Vaidas Morkevičius https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2174-0396 Research Group – Civil Society and Sustainability, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [Project Member] Simonaitienė, Berita Berita Simonaitienė https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3314-0862 Research Group – Educational Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [Project Member] Žvaliauskas, Giedrius Giedrius Žvaliauskas https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8970-0756 Research Group – Civil Society and Sustainability, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [Project Member Member; Data curation] Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA) 2023 Social Sciences educational assessment quality of education educational measurements schoolchildren teachers schools Compulsory and pre-school education Lithuanian Data Archive for Social Sciences and Humanities Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Žvaliauskas, Giedrius Giedrius Žvaliauskas Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania 2023-08-09 2023-01 2023-08-07 2023-08-09 2023-12-02 Administrative data: educational data LiDA_AdministrativeData_0541 21.12137/QC9AAD 21.12137/QYIYKY 21.12137/HLRDIN 21.12137/HXRFWG 814 581621 1855107 44853 application/x-gzip application/pdf text/tab-separated-values application/x-gzip 1.1 Custom terms specific to this dataset This dataset covers anonymised school-level population data on students enrolled in grade 8 during the school year 2020-2021, including historical data for this student cohort. <br><br> The NO-GAP research team was provided with school-level primary population data by the National Agency for Education (NAE) from the Education Information Management System (EMIS) database. This database contains the data that is needed by education stakeholders to analyse and assess the state of education in various aspects, forecast educational change, make data-driven decisions, and manage education for quality. <br><br> The primary data provided by the NAE was cleaned, additionally coded to prevent reidentification, and merged into a single data file by the NO-GAP research team. In addition, the team prepared the codebook <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/QYIYKY" target="_blank">"NO-GAP Codebook. School and Student Level Variables: 2020-2021 Cohort of 8th-Grade Students"</a>. <br><br> <p>Dataset "NO-GAP: School-Level Data: Cohort of 8th Graders of the School Year 2020-2021" metadata and data were prepared implementing project <a href="https://nogap.ktu.edu/english/" target="_blank"> "Disparities in School Achievement from a Person and Variable-Oriented Perspective: A Prototype of a Learning Analytics Tool NO-GAP"</a> from 2020 to 2023. Project leader is chief research fellow Rasa Erentaitė. Project is funded by the European Regional Development Fund according to the 2014–2020 Operational Programme for the European Union Funds’ Investments, under measure’s No. 01.2.2-LMT-K-718 activity “Research Projects Implemented by World-class Researcher Groups to develop R&D activities relevant to economic sectors, which could later be commercialized” under a grant agreement with the Lithuanian Research Council (LMTLT). <br><br> <b>These data are not open for external use based on the agreement with NAE.</b> The main language of the data is Lithuanian (lit). SPSS, 27 Lithuania Vilnius, Lithuania European Regional Development Fund according to the 2014–2020 Operational Programme for the European Union Funds’ Investments, under measure’s No. 01.2.2-LMT-K-718 activity “Research Projects Implemented by World-class Researcher Groups to develop R&D activities relevant to economic sectors, which could later be commercialized” 01.2.2-LMT-K-718-03-0059