DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.290155
title: What Students Answer When Discussing About Citation Practices

description: This document explain how data were generated and how to interpret them.   

 

LICENSE: CC0<br>
But if you want to combine data with other datasets, feel free to use them as if they were published under CC0 license.   <br>
Data were published in February 2017. At that time, Zenodo only provided CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-NC, CC BY-ND and CC BY-NC-ND. No CC0 option was available.

 

HOW DATA WERE COLLECTED<br>
The 21 recorded sessions took place between February 2013 and December 2016.   <br>
Data were collected using Turning Technologies' remote controls (called *clickers*) and TurningPoint software.

The 4 versions of the quiz used during these 4 years are provided in the 'quizzes' folder for information purpose (in PDF and Powerpoint formats).

Turning Technologies records data in a closed format (.tpzx) that can be exported and converted them into 3 formats provided here (these 3 files contain the same data):

* Excel (.xslx)<br>
* Comma-spearated values (.csv)<br>
* SQLite (.sqlite)

The first one was directly exported from TurningPoint and is provided for Excel users who can't read CSV correctly.   <br>
CSV was converted from Excel and is provided for non-Excel users.   <br>
Finally, SQLite is provided in order to apply different sorting and filters to the data. It can be read using SQLite manager for Firefox ([https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sqlite-manager/](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sqlite-manager/)).

 

CODEBOOK<br>
Here is the name, the meaning and the possible values of the columns (name - meaning [possible values]). If students didn't answer the question, the value is '-'.   

Session - session number (chronological) [1 to 21]<br>
AcademicYear - academic year [12-13, 13-14, 14-15, 15-16, 16-17]<br>
Year - calendar year [2013, 2014, 2015, 2016]<br>
Month - month (number) [1 to 12]<br>
Day - day (number) [1 to 31]<br>
Section - section abbreviation [CH, ESC, GM, IF, SIE, SV]<br>
Level - students' level [BA2, BA3, MA]<br>
Language - course's language [FR or EN]<br>
DeviceID - clicker's ID [(unique ID within a session)]<br>
Q1 - answers to question 1 [A, B, C, D, E]<br>
Q2 - answers to question 2 [A, B, C, D]<br>
Q3 - answers to question 3 [A or B]<br>
Q4 - answers to question 4 [A or B]<br>
Q5 - answers to question 5 [A or B]<br>
Q6 - answers to question 6 [A or B]<br>
Q7 - answers to question 7 [A or B]<br>
Q8 - answers to question 8 [A or B]<br>
Q9 - answers to question 9 [A or B]<br>
Q8-9 - answers to the question 8-9 (merge) [A or B]<br>
Q10 - answers to question 10 [1, 2]<br>
Q11 - answers to question 11 [A or B]<br>
Q12 - answers to question 12 [A, B]

Section abbreviation meaning<br>
* CH: chemistry<br>
* ESC: school of criminal justice (Unil)<br>
* GM: mechanical engineering<br>
* IF: financial engineering<br>
* SIE: environmental engineering<br>
* SV: life sciences

Level meaning  <br>
* BA2: 2nd year of Bachelor<br>
* BA3: 3rd year of Bachelor<br>
* MA: Master level

Question types<br>
For some questions, multiple answers were allowed: Q1, Q2, Q10 & Q12.   <br>
Half of the questions have only one correct answer, true or false: Q3, Q5, Q6, Q7, Q8, Q9 & Q8-9.   <br>
Finally, for 2 questions only one answer was accepted, but there is not only one correct answer: Q4 & Q11.

 

INFORMATION ABOUT THE SESSIONS<br>
Except otherwise stated below, all sessions were conducted like the original one: Q1 to Q12 (no Q8-9).<br>
The original French version of the quiz has been translated into English for a few sessions with Master students.<br>
For sessions 14 and 20, Q5 was removed and Q8 & Q9 were merged in Q8-9.   <br>
Session 18 was a short one with only 7 sevens questions: Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4, Q6, Q7 & Q9.   

 

CONTACT INFORMATION<br>
If you have any question about these data, contact formations.bib@epfl.ch.