Keyword: «pedagogical measurements»

In the context of the transition to the new edition of the federal state educational standard of basic general education, great attention is paid to the introduction of alternative forms of assessing the planned results of carrying out the basic educational program. One of the innovative methods of pedagogical measurements is the technology of formative assessment, which, having appeared abroad in the last decade of the twentieth century, recently has been used in the practice of Russian school education. The purpose of this article is to describe the origin, conceptual principles and key strategies of formative assessment used by Russian and foreign teachers, as well as to identify the specifics and pedagogical features of the use of formative assessment methods in the lessons of science education cycle - chemistry, physics, biology. The article discusses the advantages of formative assessment in comparison with the traditional system of final (summative) assessment. The current problems and barriers that impede the widespread adoption of formative assessment in the school system are analyzed. The authors worked out a classification of formative assessment methods and techniques used in basic school on the basis of modern Russian- and English-language scientific and pedagogical sources analysis, and described diverse didactic potential of formative assessment. By analyzing the results of a survey of teachers working in schools of Rostov-on-Don, they found the attitude of subject teachers to the technology of formative assessment. The study makes a definite contribution to the modern theory of pedagogical measurements and reveals the prospects of formative assessment as a progressive method of pedagogical diagnostics that meets the needs and requirements of the information society, provides one of the key skills of the 21st century - the ability to learn. The prospects for further research on the subject under consideration are outlined. The article may be interesting to teachers of basic schools, students of pedagogical areas of training, methodologists, specialists in the field of pedagogical measurements and scientists in the field of education modernization.