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The Conventional versus a constructionist-Scratch programming instructions and students achievements in higher education CS1 classes.

Publisher Mendeley Data
Resource Type DOI
Data Type Computational thinking, Conceptual and programming open-ended short answers.
Creator Campbell, Oladele; Atagana, Harrison
Availability open
Programming Language Scratch, VB
Collection Start Date 0
Collection End Date 0
Publication Year 2022
Number of Semesters 1
Data Protection Anonymized
Measurement Type a student profile questionnaire, a pretest, and posttest
Population CS1
Sample Size 520
Country Nigeria
Educational Institution 4 colleges
Learning Environment scratch
Aggregation yes
Aggregation Level pre and post test
Related Publication @article{campbell2022search, title={In search of experimental evidence on Scratch programming and students’ achievements in the first-year college computing class? Consider these datasets}, author={Campbell, Oladele O and Atagana, Harrison I}, journal={Data in Brief}, volume={45}, pages={108635}, year={2022}, publisher={Elsevier} }
Research Question Is there any difference in the mean post-test achievement between CS1 students in the constructionist Scratch class and those in the conventional lecture-based class? other
Fairness Score Total score: 62% (moderate) Findability: 6 of 7 Accessibility: 1 of 3 Interoperability: 3 of 4 Reusability: 5 of 10
ResourceOpen Dataset