ANALYSING THE METHODS OF USING COMPUTER-BASED LANGUAGE TESTING
KURENKOVA Tat'yana Nikolaevna, STREKALEVA Tat'yana Vladimirovna, KUKLINA Anna Ivanovna
Siberian State Aerospace University named after academician M. F. Reshetnev in Krasnoyarsk
Abstract. The article discusses the role of testing and computer in foreign language teaching, in securing the efficiency and reliability while assessing competence in this discipline of the non-linguistic students. The paper shows the advantages and disadvantages of using the distant form of testing, presents certain results of computer-based testing in the English language conducted at Siberian State Aerospace University. The authors justify the necessity for combining new and traditional methods of knowledge testing.
Key words and phrases: информационная энтропия, база тестовых заданий, абсолютный результат, граничное значение, отправные характеристики, динамика повышения знаний, information entropy, test data base, absolute result, marginal value, input characteristics, dynamics of knowledge growth
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