Case Testing as a Tool of Control in the Process of Future Teachers’ General Pedagogical Training

Abstract

The expediency of using practice oriented technologies in training teachers, the potential of case technologies as a type of interactive educational technologies for solving problems of forming professional knowledge and skills of students of teaching specialties, and sources of cases (primary, secondary) have been characterized in the article. The essence and the main types of pedagogical cases appropriate to be used in the process of professional training of future teachers have been elucidated. The authors have presented the peculiarities of implementing testing as one of the types of students’ academic performance. Modern approaches to the use of case technologies in the process of assessment of the professional competence of specialists in different fields have been characterized. The practicability of using case testing as a tool to monitor the knowledge of future teachers in the process of general training has been substantiated. The primary sources for the preparation of teachers’ training case tests (a teaching situation, a piece of a scientific or fiction text, statistical materials, etc.) have been determined. The examples of case tests used in the process of studying pedagogical disciplines for 2nd and 3rd year students in the context of the modules «Pedagogy», «History of Pedagogy» and «Fundamentals of Pedagogical Excellence» have been given. The advantages and disadvantages of using case testing have been analysed in comparison with traditional testing used to determine the level and quality of general training of future teachers.