FINAL CONTROL OF KNOWLEDGE OF LAW STUDENTS IN MODERN CONDITIONS OF DISTANCE LEARNING

Abstract

The article examines the features of the final control of knowledge of law students in modern conditions of distance learning. The structural elements of distance learning are singled out: 1) readiness of applicants for higher education (starting level of education and skills of independent work); 2) qualified teaching staff that has modern pedagogical and information technologies. It is stated that in modern conditions of distance learning prevail, it is important for the teacher to develop such methods of control of students’ knowledge, which would ensure proper reflection of the degree of mastering the program of the course, based on increasing the student’s independent work. Accordingly, the urgent issue of updating approaches to assessing the final level of students’ knowledge is to establish feedback student-teacher, teacher-student, when the student not only receives a grade that is an indicator of his level of knowledge, but also receives comments from the teacher on the work with instructions that is not done well enough and how to eliminate the existing shortcomings. This feature is extremely important in modern conditions of introduction of information technologies of distance learning and allows to find out during the final control of knowledge: 1) the volume and depth of knowledge obtained by the student; 2) the main difficulties in the process of mastering the necessary educational material; 3) the level of readiness of the student to the perception of new material; 4) the effectiveness of the methods, techniques and forms of training used during the training period. Separately during the exam (without tickets or with tickets) the most common mistakes are reflected, which should not be allowed by the examiner: 1) the student’s question should not be voiced one by one; 2) one should not express one’s indignation at the wrong answer; 3) it is not necessary to show the student the hesitations concerning an estimation of his answer and to change already accepted decision. The shortcomings of the test form of the final control are singled out, the main ones of which are: 1) impossibility to show creative abilities, non-standard approach to solving problems; 2) inability to independently and competently formulate their opinions, to defend their own position; 3) the inherent element of chance.