Methods of Students' Competencies Assessment in Distance Learning Systems
The paper analyzes the current state of market information systems enabling to realize the functions of e-learning. We describe the patterns of the functions of distance learning systems. The possibility of implementation of decision support module in distance learning systems is investigated. The way of students and trainees' competency assessment is presented; the basic tools of assessment of students' competencies development are described. The transfer to the third generation educational standards of HPE dramatically increases the attention to the assessment of students' competencies, as they contain the description of the basic competencies that graduates are supposed to have. Measuring the level of students' competencies development enables to improve their training.