Learning Data Visualization In Assessing Linguistic Competence In The International Baccalaureate

Abstract

Technical progress and the formation of a new information culture determine the design of effective educational activities and the assessment of students’ achievement levels using the techniques of learning data visualization, the educational value of which in assessing the level of linguistic competence is emphasized in International baccalaureate programs. The understanding of visualization is traditionally based on the data representation in the form of an image, which helps to quickly and easily remember and understand the information, and visual tools are used to illustrate objects and phenomena. However, a different interpretation of visualization is based on associations, thought images, which are transferred from the internal plan to the external one in the process of cognitive activity. The methodology of visualization in assessment is one of the universal tools for forming productive ways of thinking, successful perception and reinterpretation of conceptual information which allows to solve a number of pedagogical problems. The pace of the learning process is enhanced as well as students’ educational and cognitive abilities are encouraged. Students form and actively develop critical thinking skills, skills of imaginative representation of knowledge, and the overall level of visual literacy and culture increases. A methodically based approach to the use of visualization supports a higher level of students’ cognitive activity, and modern technologies for processing and analyzing information contribute to the formation of students’ skills to test knowledge using virtual simulators.