The organization of current control of the educational results among pedagogical university students

The paper is devoted to the problem of evaluating the educational results of pedagogical university students. It describes the notions «assessment», «control» and «measurement» of educational results. The purpose of the paper is to analyze the system of educational results evaluation, the type of control among students of Faculty of Natural Sciences and Geography at Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education, as well as to describe the means of evaluating the quality of professional training, in particular, pedagogical testing. The authors analyzed the main professional educational programs of higher education implemented at Faculty of Natural Sciences and Geography, syllabuses, point-rating maps and evaluation funds in order to determine the system for evaluating the educational results of pedagogical university students. The paper presents the results of a survey of teachers in order to identify methodological approaches to monitoring and evaluating the results of students’ professional training. The authors showed the role of testing in the evaluation of educational results in distance learning, and described the experience of using the educational platform «Online Test Pad» in the organization of control. They also described the results of a survey of students, during which they established the attitude of students to modern means of evaluating learning outcomes. The use of modern assessment tools in professional education makes it possible to determine the correspondence of the content, level and quality of students’ training, and systematic monitoring and evaluation allows to determine the level and quality of students’ educational results, as well as the quality of their professional training.