The role and place of tests in the assessment of the level of competence acquired by senior students of medical university

The introduction of a competence-based approach in the context of the implementation of the latest generation of the GEF leads to the formation of a new control and assessment system of educational results, which allows to take into account all the indicators obtained by students during the course of the discipline, i. e. to evaluate not only the final one-time result, but also the learning process. The formation of a fund of appraisal tools for test control of knowledge at the departments of the medical university is being discussed with the aim of objectifying the assessment of the level of competence in the disciplines of the main educational programs. It reveals the approaches to understanding the role and place of testing in assessing the level of competence acquired by senior students of higher education, as well as analyzes its experience. The advantages and disadvantages of using tests in the process of defining educational achievements are described.