POINT RATING EVALUATION SYSTEM OF STUDENTS’ ACTIVITY AS A BASIS FOR IMPROVING OF EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

Students’ knowledge evaluation and progress record methods are being changed gradually according to new reform in higher education system. Implementation of point rating system (PRS) enables to evaluate cumulative student’s progress, to analyze deeply the results of proficiency examination, to estimate student’s activities that can not be embraced by an academic mark. PRS encourages a student to carry out the sorts of activity determined by Federal state educational standard. Moreover, rating of progress leads to promotion of various forms of competitions between students and student groups. The carried out analysis of Russian universities’ rating systems has clearly proved that there is no any uniform evaluation of students’ activity. There is no system which meets all the requirements of education. Since 2003 academic staff rating assessment system has been functioning at Kemerovo state university. The system appears to be quite relevant and flexible to estimate academic staff activities. To create that kind of evaluation system (evaluation of student’s, master’s degree student’s and PhD student’s activities with taking into consideration previous experience) seems to be crucial. Consequently, the goal is to create a new complex system that can estimate students’ achievements regarding curricular and extra-curricular activities with the help of point rating evaluation method. The system considers estimation of student’s current end-of-term rating and overall progressive rating of academic term. An overall end-of-term student’s rating is estimated according to the following equation: R = w ₁ R _уч + w ₂ R _ни + w ₃ (R _сп+ R _тв+ R _{o б}), where R - is the current cumulative student’s rating, R _уч - is the current academic rating of course units, R _ни - is the research rating, R _сп - is the sports achievement rating, R _тв - is the creative activities rating, R _{o б} - is the social activities rating, w ₁ - are the weighting factors of activity categories ( i = 1, 2, 3). Overall progress rating of academic term is estimated according to the following equation: R = w ₁ R + w ₂ R , where R - is accumulation rating; R - is current cumulative student’s rating; w ₁, w ₂ - are weighting factors. According to the model described above the following document was executed: «Regulations of point rating evaluation system of students at Kemerovo state university». In terms of the normative model it was established a complex of models of data system «Student’s rating» (including information model, context model, architectural system model, diagrams in UML notation, entity-relationship diagram used in Barker notation). The data system «Student’s rating» has been implemented at Kemerovo state university. The first results have shown students’ motivation enhancement to mastering of academic programs, improvement of knowledge, increasing the level of educational process organization. PRS results are determined to be indexes of academic staff incentive system. The research was made as a part of government research task № 2014/64 of the project «Research activities management».

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