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Effects of Gamification in an Academic History Course, 2010-2020

SND-ID: 2021-103

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Mikael Svanberg - Karlstad University, Department of Political, Historical and Cultural Studies orcid

Description

The material consists of exam results among 458 students who for the first time answered a certain written exam on the last of four modules in an academic first-cycle (undergraduate) course in history at a Swedish university, distributed across ten course instances over eleven years, 2010-2020. The exam results consist of a score divided into points received on answers to the written exam and on points that each student was able to obtain from optional hand-in assignments before the written exam (quizzes). The material also contains information about the exam results from the two immediately preceding modules on the same course and at the same course instance. The data have been used to examine the extent to which the quizzes have affected the result on the final written exam and the extent to which the outcome has been affected by the examination result on the two immediately preceding modules.

Language

English

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Karlstad University

Principal's reference number

HS 2020/1158

Responsible department/unit

Department of Political, Historical and Cultural Studies

Funding

  • Funding agency: Department of Political, Historical and Cultural Studies, Karlstad University
Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Unit of analysis

Population

Students on ten course instances of an academic first-cycle (undergraduate) course in history at a Swedish university

Sampling procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Time period(s) investigated

2010-01 – 2012-01

2014-01 – 2020-01

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Topic and keywords

Research area

Higher and further education, HISTORY (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Didactics, History (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

behavior and behavior mechanisms, education, achievement, motivation, action with an object

Publications

Svanberg, M., & Bergh, D. (2023). Effects of Gamification in a Teacher Education Program, 2010 to 2020. SAGE Open, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440231160995
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440231160995

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Dataset
Exam results from an academic first-cycle course in History, 2010-2020

Description

Exam results from 458 students at a Swedish university, collected from ten course instances over eleven years, 2010-2020. Data have been collected from correction protocols 2010-2017 and from LADOK (Local Edp based documentation system) 2018-2020, after which the data have been anonymized. The variables are: study group, student category, examinee, sex and five outcome variables

Version 1

Citation

Mikael Svanberg. Karlstad University (2023). Exam results from an academic first-cycle course in History, 2010-2020. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1. https://doi.org/10.5878/t1tj-z404

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Mikael Svanberg - Karlstad University, Department of Political, Historical and Cultural Studies orcid

Keywords

behavior and behavior mechanisms, education, achievement, motivation, action with an object

Time period(s) investigated

2010-01 – 2012-01

2014-01 – 2020-01

Variables

10

Response rate/participation rate

100%

The data includes all students who for the first time answered the written exam on module 4, 2010-2012 and 2014-2020.

Published: 2023-01-26
Last updated: 2023-03-15