A flexible approach to assessing students' learning outcomes taking into account working efforts of the teacher

Introduction. The article studies the effectiveness of student learning outcomes assessment. The purpose of the research is to identify the parameters of the evaluation procedure, which provide the possibility to manage its flexibility, taking into account working efforts of the teacher. Materials and Methods. The research was conducted using the methodology of participant observation and study of products of students’ learning performance. When processing experimental data, methods of mathematical statistics was employed. Results. The author has analyzed the approaches to formative assessment and found that flexible assessment characterized by providing the opportunity to choose the individual tempo, the intensity of the work, and the complexity of tasks and ensure the timeliness of feedback contributes to enhancing students’ motivation and development. It is noted that managing the flexibility of the evaluation procedure, taking into account working efforts of the teacher, is provided by the normalization of deadline for handing over works and the amount of editing. It is revealed that it is possible to reduce working efforts of the teacher without losing the flexibility of the assessment; in this case controlled parameters will be the deadline for handing over works and the amount of editing. Conclusions. The author concludes that in order to ensure the effectiveness of evaluation it is necessary to manage the evaluation procedure at the level of the teacher and obtain the optimal ratio of the flexibility of evaluation and the teacher's working efforts.