Supplementary data for study: Study Behavior in Computing Education - a Systematic Literature Review

As the field of computing education grows and matures, bringing together computing education and higher education research becomes essential. Educational research has highlighted that how students study is crucial to their learning progress, and study behaviors have been found to play an important role in students' academic success.
This data summarizes the results of a systematic literature review intended to find out what we know about the study behaviors of computing students and the role of educational design in shaping them. A taxonomy of study behaviors was developed and used to clarify and classify the definitions of study behavior, process, strategies, habits, and tactics, as well as identifying their relations to the educational context. The search resulted in 107 included papers, which were analyzed according to defined criteria and variables. Results revealed a fragmented field of research with ambiguous terminology and a tendency to focus on very specific educational contexts. Although computing education as a field is well equipped to expand the knowledge about both study behaviors and the connection to the educational context, the lack of common terminology and theories limits the impact. Finally, this review stresses that future research and practice should consider adopting a common framework to define and systematize study behavior data and contextualize the research in such a way that researchers and educators across institutional borders can compare and utilize results. The main contribution of this work is to provide a comprehensive synthesis of study behaviors in computing education, the paper also discusses the theory behind these definitions and how the field can develop in the future.