IMPROVEMENT OF TESTING PROCESS OF STUDENTS IN MEDICAL UNIVERSITIES
Kozub S.М., Tishakova Т.S.
The Kharkiv National Medical University, Kharkiv,Ukraine
s.kozub@inbox.ru
Critical need to review content and form of educational process and current knowledge assessment system has appeared during the reforming of educational system, i.e. creation of European system under the conditions of political, social and economic transformations. The results of educational researches prove that control and assessment of knowledge are essential component of educational process. It is implicated with studying of material, its understanding, consolidating and application.
Continuous improvement of educational, methodological and organizational work by generalization and distribution of advanced experience, prevention, finding out and removal of disadvantages in the organization and management of academic activities is a main objective of control in higher educational establishment. 
Educational process requires system monitoring of students’ work during the academic year. Thus, control purpose is also stimulation and increasing of students’ motivation towards regular self-work, increasing the objectivity of students’ academic performance rating. 
Different special tools are used to ensure technical support of students’ academic performance rating. This comprises of tools for group control – computer control-teaching complexes, which realize ideas of programmed education. Combination of efficient management by cognitive process and systematic computer control of success contributes to increase quality of educational process.
Computer-based testing gives an opportunity to realize main didactic foundations of leaning control: individual character of test and evaluation of knowledge; systematicity of control; principle of thematicity; differentiated estimation of students’ performance; identity of teacher’s requirements to students.
Discipline «Medical chemistry» for specialist training in the speciality «General medicine» is pre-requisite subject. Studying of medical chemistry on the medical and bioorganic chemistry department is carried out during І and ІІ semesters for first-year students of KNMU. 
We use different forms of current control of students’ knowledge during the training course on the subject «Medical chemistry». Every practical lesson students’ knowledge is estimated according to the several criteria: done home-work, answers on obligatory questions, results of written control and also oral interview with teacher. To improve studying of students at home and assimilating what they read, we have developed computer program «CONTROL». This program includes tests of forming type for students’ self-work on the subject «Medical chemistry».
To stimulate students’ self-work we proposed electronic forms of test for 18 terms of practical lessons. Using this electronic variants students can work bringing the computer technology in the room for self-work on medical and bioorganic chemistry department, in the library, at home etc.
Testing program for self-work on «Medical chemistry» is composed in such manner that student should think logically, and not just try to guess the correct answer. Thanks to tests student can not only prepare for practical lesson but answer the questions of current control and pass informative modules on «Medical chemistry» successfully.
Program «CONTROL» has diagnostic character, focused on detection of failure cause made by students, and on identification the reasons of skill gaps. 
Thus, stressing the need of students’ self-work for every practical lesson we have propossed computer program «CONTROL» on the subject «Medical chemistry». This program helps to get higher effectivity at educational-cognitive activity of prospective physicians and increase level of qualitative and absolute success in studuing on «Medical chemistry».