Automatic code assessment in Robotics higher education courses

Abstract

[EN] This paper describes two automatic assessment tools developed for Unibotics, a robot programming web platform for engineering education. The first one, for style assessment, measures some quality indicators in the source code itself such as complexity, number of loops, and PEP8 compliance. A second tool runs the robot application developed by each student and measures its performance when solving the task of each exercise. For students, both tools provide instant feedback which encourages them to improve their score and so their source code. For teachers, they are automatic assessment tools which provide additional information for student evaluation. Both tools aim at improving the technology enhanced learning when using that robotics education platform. They have been used in two courses at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos with 40 real students and some preliminary analytics have been collected.