SPECIFITY AND EFFICIENCY OF COMPUTER MONITORING OF KNOWLEDGE AS A HIGHPRIORITY METHOD OF DIAGNOSIS OF THE LEVEL OF STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

Abstract

Research issues of specificity and efficiency of the computer monitoring of knowledge as a high-priority method of diagnostics of the level of students’ educational attainments are made actual. The essence of the interrelated notions such as “ computer monitoring of knowledge”, “ computer testing”, “ test assignment” is revealed.On the basis of analysis of available references the objective of computer testing is defined, the reasons of figuring out the objective results which are achieved by the means of two constituents that are proper prepared test and actionable hardware system are set. At the same time the general properties of test such as validity, complexity, reliability, stability, representativeness, significancy, truthfulness, test hypothesis and discriminant are assigned. As a rule, test consists of two parts: informational and operational. The technology of constructing test tasks is characterized, it presupposes observance of number of rules: each test task should evaluate the achievements of an important and significant educational goal; it should check the appropriate level of knowledge acquisition, as well as higher cognitive levels and the time allocated for the test task which should be spent on finding the answer, but not on understanding the condition of the question. Along with that, the efficiency of computer testing is analyzed, which depends on the variability and multiplicity of created test tasks. Based on the results of the research we have the reason to confirm that computer testing being promising direction of modern educational process becomes constituent of the modern knowledge diagnostics. It broadens the means of control and evaluation of the level of educational achievements, it is an alternative to traditional methods of monitoring, it can be carried out taking into account different types and forms of control as a tool of operational management.Computer testing enables to audit knowledge of a large number of people simultaneously in a short span of time; random selection of questions from the course unit; processing of test results on a personal computer using a rating scale.