The unified national testing of graduates introduced in the Republic of Kazakhstan reveals the level of training of students. At the same time, a test form of knowledge control in the studied disciplines is used. The test form of control of students is widely used in the educational process in the training of specialists in technical specialties in ZKATU named after. Zhangir Khan. In conditions of high computerization of the educational process and with the transition to student-centered learning, there is a need for test control of knowledge at all stages of their acquisition. The organic combination in the control tests, developing and controlling functions, involves the use of the so-called “learning control”. The test form of knowledge assessment widely motivates the student for success, relieves him of the fear of the exam, reduces the psychological burden, creates a comfortable environment and objectively assesses the knowledge of the test person.
Tests are of great importance, since the results of the answers can be used to judge not only the level of knowledge, but also the degree of development of the personal qualities of students, which assume that the person being tested has a certain amount of knowledge, therefore they are used as a control method when consolidating new or repeating the studied educational material. Test control also performs a diagnostic function. This function consists in the fact that the teacher not only controls the level of knowledge, skills and abilities of students, but also finds out the causes of gaps in knowledge, which helps to eliminate them.
The article discusses some of the results and analysis of the results of a pedagogical experiment on the implementation of this methodology, carried out at the Higher School of Mechanical Engineering (the former Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology) at Zhangir Khan WKATU.
Keywords: control method, diagnostic function, pedagogical experiment.
