The potential of tests as a means of education quality diagnostics: myths and reality

Abstract

The article is devoted to an analysis of potential of pedagogical and psychological tests used as one of the means of complex diagnostics of competence level of the students seeking for a bachelor’s degree. The article also reveals the essence of a principally new type of test aimed at checking teaching material comprehension. It also describes the results of using psychological tests to assess students’ general culture competence at Sholokhov Moscow State University for Humanities.

Keywords

• диагностика учебных достижений
• педагогические тесты
• диагностика общекультурных компетенций бакалавра
• психологические тесты оценки общекультурных компетенций
• тест понимания
• валидность теста
• надежность теста
• diagnostics of the education quality
• pedagogical tests
• diagnostics of competence level
• psychological tests for general culture competence estimation
• comprehension test
• validity and reliability of a test