Computer Testing as a Form of Students’ Knowledge Control

Abstract

The article describes the experience of using testing to control students' knowledge in technical disciplines, as well as integrating the obtained results into the calculation of the final student's rating in the discipline. To organize the control of students' knowledge, a testing system was developed and characterized by a high level of security, a flexible system for assessing test results that takes into account a partially correct answer, flexible opportunities for the teacher in the context of the question complexity coefficients choice, a flexible testing organization system that allows the formation of tests of the same complexity with any number of difficulty levels of questions. The developed testing system allows using the following types of questions: one-line answer, multi-line answer, univariate question, multivariate question, logical sequences, pairwise matching. The experience of using the presented types of questions within the discipline "computer networks" is described. It is suggested the principles of the tests formation, taking into account the complexity of the questions, the method of calculating the results for individual questions and the entire test, which allows taking into account the partially correct answer of the student, reduce the final result on the question when the student chooses incorrect answers, take into account any (selected by the teacher) question difficulty factors. A method is proposed for calculating the final assessment of a student's knowledge in a discipline, which implies an integrated accounting of his achievements in the study of both theoretical and practical components.