A SYSTEM, SUPPORTING DISTANCE LEARNING AND IMPROVING EFFICIENCY OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS
The article deals with the importance of the information technology for quality training. At the level of testing students during a semester, the author studies the tests' necessary features in their design, structure and contents. The work also observes related problems with working our semester tests and shows possible solutions. The significant impact of the system of distance learning on the testing at all levels (current, intermediate and final ones) as well as on the effective organization of independent work of students (training testing, tasks and exercises for independent work, placing the necessary training and methodic basis) are shown. The necessity of the use of training tests in the sphere of students' independent work is proved. Using percentage scales the author points out at the dependence of correctly executed tasks in semester tests with the availability of training tests in electronic courses. The author of the work underlines the significance of electronic support of the distance learning, which serves an independent monitoring system of students' knowledge and a means of effective organization of students' independent work.