Dataset for the evaluation of student-level outcomes of a primary school Computer Science curricular reform

Dataset for the evaluation of student-level outcomes of a primary school Computer Science curricular reform
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• If you publish material based on this dataset, please cite the following :

            • The Zenodo repository : Laila El-Hamamsy, Barbara Bruno, Jessica Dehler Zufferey, and Francesco Mondada (2023). Dataset for the evaluation of student-level outcomes of a primary school Computer Science curricular reform [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7489244

            • The associated peer reviewed article that will appear in the International Journal of STEM education : El-Hamamsy, L., Bruno, B., Audrin, C., Chevalier, M., Avry S., Dehler Zufferey, J., and Mondada, F. (2023). How are Primary School Computer Science Curricular Reforms Contributing to Equity? Impact on Student Learning, Perception of the Discipline, and Gender Gaps. arXiv, to appear in the International Journal of STEM Education. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.00820

• License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY-4.0)

• Creator: El-Hamamsy, L., Bruno, B., Dehler Zufferey, J., and Mondada, F.

• Date: May 2nd 2023

• Subject: Computer Science; Curricular Reform; Elementary Education; Learning Achievement; Computational Thinking; Perception Survey; Equity; Gender Gaps

• Dataset format: CSV

• Dataset collection: January 2021 to May 2022

• Dataset size : < 100 kB

• Dataset content : three excel files. We provide the detailed description of each of the files below. The original questions are available in the associated publication [1]. Please note that these datasets contain missing values due to students either not being present for all data collections or not having the associated teacher-related data.

• Abbreviations :
  - CS : Computer Science
  - CT : Computational Thinking
  - PD : Professional Development

• Funding : This work was funded by the the NCCR Robotics, a National Centre of Competence in Research, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant number 51NF40_185543)

# References

[1] El-Hamamsy, L., Bruno, B., Audrin, C., Chevalier, M., Avry S., Dehler Zufferey, J., and Mondada, F. (2023). How are Primary School Computer Science Curricular Reforms Contributing to Equity? Impact on Student Learning, Perception of the Discipline, and Gender Gaps. arXiv, to appear in the International Journal of STEM Education. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.00820