TESTING ON COMMON TECHNICAL DISCIPLINES IN MILITARY UNIVERSITY AS A TOOL FOR MONITORING AND ASSESSING THE LEVEL OF COMPETENCE FORMATION

Abstract

The article considers one of the current problems of higher education in Russia at the present stage – the problem of quality management of education in the conditions of standarization and introduction of a competent approach. On the basis of theoretical analysis and attracting the opinion of other researchers, the authors of the article conclude that it is advisable to use testing to monitor and assess the formation of competences defined by the standard as the final learning outcomes. In this regard, the content of the concept of “pedagogical test” is disclosed. A reasonable conclusion is made about the need to identify indicators of achievement of competences and externally observed characteristics of competences, which allow to obtain information on the level of their formation, – descriptors. The article presents an example of the identification of indicators of achievement of competences and descriptors in disciplines of the common technical cycle. The authors give a generalized description of the forms of test tasks known in didactics, a sequence of stages of development of test tasks aimed at assessment of the level of competence formation, examples of test tasks developed by them, which allow to track the degree of competence formation at cadets of military university in general technical disciplines at different levels of mastery.