Software Engineering Student Learning Gains from Escape Room vs Lecture, 326 Participants

Supplementary material for the article 'Are Educational Escape Rooms More Effective Than Traditional Lectures for Teaching Software Engineering? A Randomized Controlled Trial' contains data from 326 software engineering students. Aldo Gordillo Méndez published the dataset via e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse, with a last update recorded on 2025-10-14. The data compares learning outcomes between a control group taught via traditional lecture and an experimental group taught via an educational escape room.

Use Cases

• Compare learning gains between educational interventions based on pre-test and post-test scores.
• Analyze student perceptions of a novel teaching method based on the 16-item questionnaire results.
• Conduct statistical analysis on the effectiveness of gamified learning in a controlled setting.
• Replicate or validate the findings of the associated randomized controlled trial.

Strengths

• Data from a randomized controlled trial with 162 control and 164 experimental participants provides a balanced comparison.
• Includes multiple assessment types: pre/post-test scores, calculated learning gains, and a detailed perceptions questionnaire.
• All data is anonymized to protect participant identity.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal and institutional bias inherent to the single study context.

Provenance

Source

Gordillo Méndez, Aldo via e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Collected from a randomized controlled trial with software engineering students.

Time Range

Likely corresponds to the study period for the associated article published in 2024.

Freshness

Last updated 2025-10-14 21:28:51; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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