How Instructional Feedback Has Been Employed in Instructional Units for Teaching Software Project Management Tools: A Systematic Literature Review

The software industry has a growing demand for project managers which has leveraged the efforts to improve the teaching of project management competencies in higher education computer courses. Part of these efforts has been concentrated on improving instructional feedback when teaching these competencies. Instructional feedback is essential in order to help the students to learn based on an evaluation of their actions and decisions. However, so far there is few information available on how to provide this instructional feedback when teaching software project management. Therefore, we performed a systematic literature review that aims at providing an overview on existing feedback strategies, specifically when teaching the use of project management tools, such as MS Project or dotProject. As result we identified 8 relevant studies. Their results are systematically presented and a discussion is carried out, identifying the most adopted feedback strategies, how they were implemented, as well as their effects on student learning. These results may be useful for software engineering instructors to decide on the adoption some of the strategies as well as for instructional designers that may employ some of these feedback strategies when developing new instructional units. Keywords-Project Management; PMBOK; PM tool; Instructional feedback;Instructional Unit; SLR.