ASSESSMENT OF THE QUALITY OF STUDENTS' KNOWLEDGE WITHIN THE MODULAR AND CYCLIC SYSTEM OF TRAINING IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Introduction. Improving the quality of student’s training in higher education largely depends on the effectiveness of the system of assessment of knowledge, skills and competences formed in the process of development of the basic educational program. The most important task is to choose the methods and means of diagnosis that would allow to identify gaps in the learning of the program material in a timely manner and promptly make changes to the educational process in order to improve it. This problem becomes even more urgent in the transition to a new form of organization of the educational process. The transition to the module-cyclic learning system has been done in the experiment in the Volzhsky Branch of the National Research University “Moscow Power Engineering Institute”. In this regard, the main purpose of the study is to develop a system of assessment of the quality of knowledge (on the example of the discipline of “Higher mathematics”) within the module and cyclic system of training. Materials and Methods. Implementation of research tasks has been achieved on the basis of analysis of psychological and pedagogical, methodical and educational literature, monitoring of the pedagogical process and conducting classes in the higher mathematics. The authors present the test tasks, tested in the framework of the implementation of the module-cycle system in the educational process of this university. Results. The essence of the educational process organization and the system of knowledge quality assessment in the framework of module-cycle system of education in the energy University has been described. Diagnostic goals of bachelors’ training in the discipline of “Higher mathematics” have been set. The application of test technologies to control the level of assimilation of the program material is justified. The tests on a number of topics and methods of analysis of test results have been developed and tested. Conclusions. The use of this method of students’ control knowledge and skills of allows to quickly identify the level of assimilation of activities, to assess the quality of teaching and effectively manage of the learning process.