Such, for example, exams in graduate school or in certain areas of medicine. If we are talking about more or less large cohort of subjects, for they are always used in the tests. In the process of reforming our education system and its integration into the global educational practice tests achievements are experiencing a rebirth. Since 1998, the testing center of the Russian Ministry launched an experiment on a centralized abiturientskogo Testing in high schools, which spurred the creation and implementation of the outcome of tests of achievement of separate disciplines. Establish a central test tasks;, a list of generalized skills in geography, physics, history, Chemistry; created a standardized test specification, classification of tests performed. Experience centralized abiturientskogo and rehearsal testing served as the basis for the next step – a single state test exams of high school graduates, who in an experiment conducted in 2001, researchers published a variety of proposals to solve the problems raised selection content for a single exam. In particular, for attestation of educational institutions offered such test items that allow you to judge the minimum acceptable competence of graduates.
For abroad, such tests are called Minimum Competency Test. We recommend using criterial-oriented tests, which is determined by what the subject knows and what he knows from the specified standard. Uniform State exam for each discipline consists of two parts. The first part (A) – is a qualification examination on X-XI classes mandatory for all students. Offered two options for certification: A (- monitoring the level of compulsory training of graduates and A2 – advanced level.