CREATIVE EXAM IN THE DISCIPLINE OF CHEMISTRY FOR DISTANCE LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION
The modern education system, finding itself in the difficult conditions of the pandemic, is forced to move away from the traditional contact form and almost completely switch to distance learning, using both traditional Moodle systems and various programs for organizing video conferences, as well as messengers. Under these conditions, final attestation in a subject such as chemistry inevitably faces the problem of objective assessment of students' knowledge, who are increasingly using the Internet and mobile methods of obtaining information not only during the actual learning process, but also during exams. In this article, the author considers the possibility of organizing the exam procedure for the section «Inorganic chemistry» and suggests using a creative approach in organizing exam questions. The main goal of the exam is not so much to test students' knowledge of the properties of known elements and their compounds, but rather to identify common connections between elements of the same group and the ability to describe the properties of an undiscovered elements. During this exam, mobile technologies are used only as a way to exchange information with the teacher. With this approach, the data available to students via the Internet will not be ready-made answers, but will serve only as reference data and will help to identify the ability of students to generate new knowledge by analogy with existing ones.