Brief Overall Description of the Dataset:
List of school and classroom project names, their needs, how many donors there have been, total cost of the project, how much more money is needed, and how many days left to make a donation.
Link: http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/search.html?subject4=6
Date Inventory Completed: 6/4/15
Screening
- Is the data collected opinion-based?
- Is the data collection recurring (must be collected at least annually)?
- Is there data available for 2013?
- For Education: Is the data collected at least the school level?
- Can we access the data by August 15th?
- Can the data be linked to other education/workforce datasets (e.g., K-12, higher education, workforce)?
Purpose
What is the purpose of the organization collecting the data?
Online charity that students and classrooms in need by posting a classroom project with amount of money needed for it and people can make donations to a project they like.
Why is it collected and how does the organization use it?
Data is collected to better understand what kind of teachers, classrooms, and projects receive more donations and look at why that is.
Who else uses the data?
Unknown
- Who do they sell the data to?
N/A
Method
What is the data collection method?
Online
What is the type of data collected?
Observational
If designed, who created the questions?
N/A
What is the raw source of the collected data (prior to any aggregation)?
Teachers
Description
- What is the general topic of the data (1-2 words)?
Education charity
What are the earliest and latest dates for which data is available?
2000-2015
Is data collected and available periodically?
No
How soon after a reference period ends can a data source be prepared and provided?
Project can be posted directly to site and updates on funding will also be available immediately.
Selectivity (conversely, the representativeness)
What is the universe (e.g., population) that the data represents (consider inclusion/exclusion criteria)?
Teachers in K-12 public and public charter schools in the 50 states and the District of Columbia who voluntarily post their projects.
Accessibility
How is the data accessed?
Must email data@donorschoose.org with name, company, and reason for using data in order to receive their data (which has been done).
- Is it open data?
No
- Any legal, regulatory, or administrative restrictions on accessing the data source?
No
Cost? - One time or annual or project based payment?
None
Does this dataset appear to meet our needs for the Census study? NO
Explanation: No data available at the student level and data available does not appear to meet the needs of the overall project.