The paper presents the technology for developing a test of learning outcomes applied to engineering students. Considering the evidence, which reflected the practice of learning outcomes testing and tests development, the need to study the problem was revealed. There was a lack of scientifically based recommendations that allow designing valid and reliable assessment tools for the learning outcomes diagnostics under competency-based education. The finding of the current research was formed as a technology of the test development. The substantiated technology included four phases: organization and preparation, design and expertize reflection and diagnostics, and final technological phase. Each phase involved certain stages. The proposed diagnostic procedures made it possible to design valid tests that met the quality criteria in examining the level of learning outcomes for engineering students. When the test developer adheres strictly to the reasonable testing phases, they obtain an algorithm for creating a valid test item, which could be accumulated in a test database and then used to design tests. Following the technology stages, an educator/examiner/test developer could design, justify and evaluate the test item according to a scientific basis rather than their intuition. That enables objective and reliable results of student’s achievements testing. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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