Public dataset about students' leadership competence. The evidence consists of the activities and responsibilities of shared leadership. 40 work teams and 237 students participated in this research work. The subject in which the experience was carried out was “Fundamentals of Programming” in the first year and first semester of the Biotechnology degree at the Technical University of Madrid. The data was collected during the 2019-2020 academic year (pre-Covid-19 Pandemic); 15 teams and 90 students participated face-to-face (37.11% male and 62.89% female). In the 2020-2021 academic year (Covid-19 Pandemic), 12 teams and 70 students participated online (34.78% male and 65.22% female). During the 2021-2022 academic year (post-Covid-19 Pandemic), 13 teams and 77 students participated in person (41.03% male and 58.97% female). All the research was carried out in compliance with the standards defined by the Ethical Committee of the Technical University of Madrid.

This work has been partially funded by the Spanish Government Ministry of Science and Innovation throughout the AVisSA project grant number [PID2020-118345RB-I00] and the IE22.0602 project of the Technical University of Madrid. The authors would like to thank the research groups EtnoEdu (University of Zaragoza), GRIAL (http://grial.usal.es), and LITI (http://www.liti.es) for their support.