THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF USING TEST CONTROL FOR CONDUCTING SUMMATIVE CERTIFICATION OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract

For the development of a good evaluation instrument, persons who are involved in the process should follow all the recommended stages (planning, test specification, piloting, removing redundant items). The using of formative assessment in education allows us to conduct such tire as piloting (approbation) that is intended to obtain the statistical parameters of test items, which can be used in a summative assessment. Correct design of test forms for a formative assessment can provide sufficient capabilities for their equating and linking. In this work we are focused only on evaluating just one construct, which is commonly related to only one subject in university curriculum. According to this reason we described a common items equating technique for test items preequating.

Keywords

• test task
• testing
• bank of test tasks
• calibrated task
• anchor task
• equalization procedure
• formative assessment
• summative assessment