INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR SUPPORTING THE UNDERGRADUATE OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING TEACHING PROCESS: A SCOPING REVIEW

Computer Science degree students commonly have a high failure rate in object-oriented programming (OOP). To reduce the failure rate is needed that teachers use techniques to motivate and help students in keep their focus attention; to help students to organize their information for understanding and remembering, and to enable teachers to monitor and assess their learning. These techniques are called instructional strategies. In this paper, we present a scoping review of to answer the research question: What are the instructional strategies that have been most successful use for teaching object-oriented programming at the undergraduate level? The review was performed using three electronic databases: SCOPUS, ERIC and JSTOR. Searching period was from 01/01/2006 to 12/31/2016. Our results show some instructional strategies used in object-oriented programming in the last ten years. These are: blended learning, project based learning, object-first, iterative learning, instructional games, formative assessment, educational programming environments, bottom-up and top-down approaches, and interactive visualizations.