Development of banks of test items as a type of modern certification pedagogical measuring materials

Abstract

In connection with the transition of higher education to the Federal State Educational Standards of Higher Education of the third generation in terms of evaluating learning outcomes, a new task has arisen to create such an assessment system that would allow determining the formation of competencies and parts of competencies of students and graduates. To do this, universities should create a qualitatively new system for evaluating educational outcomes. At the same time, it is certainly desirable that the new system make maximum use of already well-tested, repeatedly tested and familiar tools and techniques. Testing is one of these tools that meet modern requirements and at the same time are already familiar to users. Of particular note is the value of testing for current and widely used distance learning methods. The article is devoted to some aspects of modern testing, namely, the creation of databases of test tasks and the design of the test tasks themselves as a type of certification and pedagogical measuring materials based on the provisions of the theory of testing and international standards. The article may be useful to all teachers who use or intend to use modern testing tools in their professional activities, teachers who form funds of assessment tools for disciplines at departments of educational institutions of higher education, as well as to the organizers and performers of diagnostic work of Rosobrnadzor – heads of departments and heads of the main professional educational programs.