KEY ASPECTS OF EFFECTIVE TESTING

Abstract

The article focuses on an issue of quality assessment of students’ knowledge and gives examples of test and nontest control methods. The author makes an emphasis on the fact that production of tests is a long creative process that requires time and knowledge of both the subject field and basic provisions of the theory of testing. Key competences of a test expert include knowledge of various forms of test tasks and understanding of test quality measures, such as reliability, validity, objectivity. The article also deals with the issue of creation of banks of test tasks. Attention is drawn to the fact that banks of test tasks should be composed by professionals in the respective subject domain together with testologists that are cross-disciplinary experts in high-quality and science-based measuring techniques. Specific professional and personality qualities that a testologist should have are mentioned. Particular attention is paid to the attentiveness and responsibility of test developers. It is pointed out that the effectiveness of testing directly depends on the test creators’ professional background.