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Assessment of Lower Secondary School Pupils’ Work at Educational Robotics Classes

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This paper presents our proposal for assessment of lower secondary pupils working with educational robotics LEGO WeDo, using the curriculum we have designed. The curriculum consisted of eleven activities with complex methodical materials that the teachers can incorporate into their ordinary classes. Teachers can use this curriculum within compulsory subject Informatics and therefore it was necessary to create a way to assess pupils’ work. We have created evaluation through rubrics, because working with robotic kits encompasses several aspects. The assessment focuses on three main aspects: (a) the construction of the robotic model, (b) program to control it and (c) the presentation of mentioned program. In this paper we also describe the concrete example of assessment of pupils’ work using our rubrics.

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Implementation of this article has been financially supported by grant UK/403/2016.

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  1. Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Michaela Veselovská & Karolína Mayerová

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Correspondence to Michaela Veselovská .

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  1. European Lab for Educational Technology , Sparta, Greece

    Dimitris Alimisis

  2. Department of Information Engineering, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padua, Italy

    Michele Moro

  3. Department of Information Engineering, Università degli Studi di Padova , Padova, Italy

    Emanuele Menegatti

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Veselovská, M., Mayerová, K. (2017). Assessment of Lower Secondary School Pupils’ Work at Educational Robotics Classes. In: Alimisis, D., Moro, M., Menegatti, E. (eds) Educational Robotics in the Makers Era. Edurobotics 2016 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 560. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55553-9_13

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