TEST AS A MEANS OF CONTROLLING THE FORMATION OF METHODICAL COMPETENCE OF STUDENTS -PHILOLOGISTS

Abstract

The publication deals with the meaning of the concept "test" in the light of contemporary
educational paradigm. Basing on the analysis of scientific literature on the outlined problems, the
author believes that the most justified way to control the formation of methodical competence of
students-philologists is to use professionally oriented test, since this type of test allows checking the
level of formation of professionally relevant knowledge and skills for philologists-to-be. The
analysis of scientific sources and tests that are used in the learning process proved that compared
with traditional forms of control a professionally oriented test has the following advantages: the
objectivity of evaluation of students’ knowledge and skills, the possibility of implementing a
targeted systematic control of the level of students’ knowledge about the methods of teaching the
Ukrainian language , the intensification of the educational process, simplicity of carrying out ,
saving the time required to perform the test and validate it. The author believes that not all of the
knowledge and skills, necessary for the establishment of methodological competence of
philologists-to-be can be verified by tests. Among them are the ones that require actual knowledge
of linguodidactic terms and concepts, such as the names of methods, techniques, their classification,
the name and features of the application tasks and exercises in the classroom of the Ukrainian
language, the definition of the means of learning the Ukrainian language, the name of mistakes,
appearing in the study of the Ukrainian language, concepts and terms from the history of linguistics
and so on.