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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.

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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 Language​s 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
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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

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