ORGANIZATIONAL AND PEDAGOGICAL CONDITIONS FOR OPERATION OF RATING SYSTEM OF TRAINING QUALITY EVALUATION FOR TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

The article analyses a number of organizational and pedagogical conditions that ensure operation of the rating system for evaluation of training quality among technical university students. It shows that successful operation of the rating system is possible only if some particular conditions are met. The authors believe that one of these conditions is the readiness of students and lecturers to in rating evaluation of educational activity. As a result of theoretical studies it was found that the concept of “readiness” to some activity can be interpreted in different ways: as the entire personality object, as “purposeful complex of qualities, knowledge, practical skills and abilities, attitudes, and states”, as the “entire inherent property of a personality, as integrated formation of a personality”. Within the framework of this research, the student’s readiness involves awareness of regulatory documents that regulate the student’s activity in rating evaluation conditions; ability to use the necessary software, work with electronic documents, spreadsheets, make presentations and create databases; a great number of testing materials which implies the ability to use testing technique. Another organizational and pedagogical condition is development of benchmark tests aimed at determination of level of student’s training in each subject including controlling complex of tests in each classroom discipline. At present test checking is very popular both in educational and professional diagnostics. The third condition of successful functioning of a rating system is development and application of software packages which make it possible to calculate rating automatically; storage of control testing materials and test results; informational and methodological support. The authors have come to the conclusion that implementation of the organizational and pedagogical conditions described above might contribute to successful functioning of rating evaluation in real-life educational process.