Assessing students’ work in robotics
In this 7-minute video, Dr Danahy from Tufts University Engineering and Outreach Centre talks through his assessment framework for his students’ team robotics projects. The students are in a first-year undergraduate engineering course, and use LEGO NXT.
Additional details
| Year band(s) | 7-8, 9-10 |
|---|---|
| Content type | Assessment task |
| Format | Web page |
| Core and overarching concepts | Digital systems |
| Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s) |
AC9TDI8P09
Implement, modify and debug programs involving control structures and functions in a general-purpose programming language
AC9TDI10P05
Design algorithms involving logical operators and represent them as flowcharts and pseudocode
AC9TDI10P06
Validate algorithms and programs by comparing their output against a range of test cases |
| Technologies & Programming Languages | Robotics and drones |
| Keywords | Assessment criteria, Robotics projects, Robots, Programming, Design, Interface, Self- and peer-grading, Lego NXT |
| Organisation | Tufts University Engineering and Outreach Centre |
| Copyright | 2017 Education Services Australia Ltd, unless otherwise indicated. Creative Commons BY 4.0 licence, unless otherwise indicated. Assessing students' work in robotics is Dr Ethan Danahy |
