Aplicación educativa como estrategia metodológica para el aprendizaje de programación orientada a objetos para estudiantes de segundo de bachillerato

Abstract

This research work was carried out at the "Jambelí" High School located in the province of El Oro in the Santa Rosa canton with students in the second year of high school parallel "A" and "B" in the subject of programming and database, in the 2021-2022 academic year. The purpose of this research is to analyse the impact of an educational mobile application as a methodological learning strategy for high school students; through the development and implementation of Progori, an application that has content that facilitates the learning of object-oriented programming, and also incorporates practical exercises where the student must measure the level of knowledge acquired. The main objective of the Progori application is to provide students with relevant content that will be of utmost importance to develop the following competences necessary for programming code. The application also has an easy-to-use interface where the contents can be found divided into sections, inside you can find animations, summaries, saves user information, allows you to switch accounts, you can view a history of games, and has exercises to select and complete lines of code. During the research the ADDIE methodology was used, which allowed the construction and implementation of the proposal, this methodology is used when it is necessary to incorporate technology in the educational field, and the model view - view model (MVVM) that allows to have a clean coding, with better understanding for the developer through message lines. For the investigative approach two methodologies were considered, quantitative; it allowed to be based on investigative techniques of measurement of variables through the collection of numerical and statistical data, qualitative; necessary for the collection of non-numerical data obtained through the observation allowing to detail the necessary information to know the results. At the end of the research it was found that the use of the mobile application Progori had an excellent acceptance by students and teachers, which was of great help to better address the issue of object-oriented programming that is considered the initial basis for further developing skills that will allow the student to perform satisfactorily in laboratory practices where it is required that the programmed code is properly functional, thus was achieved positively meet all the objectives set during this research. Meetings were scheduled with the students and the teacher for the presentation of the prototype, during the first meeting a beta version of Progori was presented where several opinions and suggestions were obtained that served to incorporate improvements such as the login to save the student's progress and make improvements in the contents such as the incorporation of use cases with respect to Visual Basic. Finally, the second meeting allowed us to know the degree of acceptance of Progori and to affirm that the use of a mobile application as a methodological learning strategy in second-year high school students strengthens their knowledge of object-oriented programming, generates interaction in the classroom among classmates and raises the degree of participation and interest in the subject.