Dr. Oladele O. Campbell – Academic Portfolio

Personal Profile

Dr. Oladele Campbell is a Chief Lecturer at Niger State Polytechnic, Zungeru, Nigeria, with three decades of experience in computer science education, administration, and research.

Education

• PhD in Computer Science Education, University of South Africa (2022)
• MSc in Computer Science, University of Ibadan (2003)
• BSc in Computer Science, University of Ibadan (1994)

Memberships

• Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Member, Nigeria Computer Society

Recognition

• Senior Member, ACM (2021)
• Member, Regional Advisory Committee for CompEd 2025

Highlighted Publications

• Krause Levy, S., Petersen, A., Campbell, O. O., et al. (2025). Multi institutional study on impostor phenomenon. ACM Transactions on Computing Education.
• Fitsum Deriba et al. (2024). Computer Programming Education in the Age of Generative AI: Insights from Empirical Research. PDF
• Campbell, O.O., Sanusi, I. T. & Atagana, H. I. (2024). From Visual Arts to Programming… ITiCSE Proceedings.
•  Campbell, O. O., et al. (2023). The Impacts of a Constructionist Scratch Programming Pedagogy… CompEd Proceedings
• Campbell, O. O. & Atagana, H. I. (2022). Impact of a Scratch programming intervention… Heliyon

Research Interests

Engaging CS education; Novice programming education; Generative AI; Intelligent Tutoring Systems; the impostor phenomenon; and professional dispositions.

Capstone Project Portal

This system facilitates final year project topic submission… Built using Flask with a Google Apps Script back‑end.

• Features: Topic uniqueness, supervisor approval workflow, audit trail
• Technology: Flask; Google Apps Script; Google Sheets API
• Modules: AvailableTopics; TakenTopics; Approval Queue; Activity Log

Visit the Deployed Portal

Upcoming Teaching Innovations

Planning a series of interactive tutorials and workshops for first‑year programming courses…

Presented at CompEd 2025 (Gaborone, Botswana)

Dr Oladele O. Campbell presented two peer-reviewed conference papers at the 3rd ACM Global Computing Education Conference (CompEd 2025), hosted by the University of Botswana and held at the Phakalane Golf Estate Hotel and Convention Centre, Gaborone, Botswana, 23–25 October 2025 (with pre-conference working groups on 21–22 October).

The papers addressed two key areas: the impostor phenomenon among Nigerian computing students—examining its prevalence, gender differences, and academic progression—and computer science teacher preparation in Nigerian universities. Notably, the former received the Best Paper Runner-Up award at CompEd 2025.

Read the papers: The Impostor Phenomenon Among Nigerian Computing Students: A Study of Prevalence, Gender, and Academic Progression and Preliminary Insights into Computer Science Teacher Preparation Programs in Nigerian Universities .

Ongoing Research: Professional Dispositions in Nigerian Polytechnic Computing Education

Principal Investigator: Dr Oladele O. Campbell. Project: Integrating Professional Dispositions in Nigerian Polytechnic Computing Education.

Funding has been secured, research instruments prepared, and a work-in-progress seminar paper delivered internally. Data collection has not yet begun owing to security-related closure of the institution.

Status: Preparatory phase complete; fieldwork pending.

New Book Published

A Guided Introduction to C++ Programming is now available. Download here.

Recent Blog Post

Transforming CS1 Education with Constructionist Pedagogy

Mastery Learning in Action

Explore UC Berkeley’s ‘A’s for All’ pilot programme in mastery‑based grading… Read more.