Open AccessProblems of Assessing the Quality of Education Using Test Certification Procedures
Author(s) -
A.V. Fokina
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
psihologo-pedagogičeskie issledovaniâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2587-6139
DOI - 10.17759/psyedu.2019110208
Subject(s) - certification , test (biology) , distrust , quality (philosophy) , process (computing) , mathematics education , medical education , psychology , pedagogy , computer science , political science , medicine , law , epistemology , paleontology , philosophy , psychotherapist , biology , operating system
In the modern educational system testing has become one of the prevailing methods for assessing students' knowledge. The procedures for test certification of schoolchildren, especially the so-called “high-stakes tests,” which have a decisive influence on the trajectory of post-school education, are still debatable. In studies, the problem of misalignment of test indicators and the real educational level of the student is discussed, the presence of procedural and substantive shortcomings in the tests is stated. Article is devoted to the overview of the difficulties encountered by participants in the educational process in preparation for the exams. Such trends in final exams' critic as distrust to the exam procedure, procedural and content shortcomings, difficulties in preparing graduates for exams are discussed. It also describes the author's methodic of exam readiness diagnostic. It's based on the educational result’s esteem. The form of the methodic is given.