Rating System for the Knowledge and Skills Control and Its Realization in the Learning Environment “Moodle”

Abstract

Rating control of students knowledge and skills is the part of Bologna declaration of European Universitites. Optimal realization of rating system brings together the objectivity and the individual approach to student’s evaluation. Analysis of rating control possibilities in medical University and peculiarities of individual rating adaptation in the LMS Moodle are the objectives of this paper.LMS Moodle contains enough elements quantity for evaluation and allows sum up of learning course results. First level of rating system adaptation is various intervals for different course elements. Weight coefficients for learning tasks mean second one. Third rating adaptation level is the method of calculation of final rating score for a student. There is example of rating system in medical informatics course for medical and pediatric students in the paper. Organizational, technological and financial aspects of rating introducing in the medical education are discussed.