1. performed Shvaleva Maria group -1-080114

3.  Good- afternoon, dear teachers and students. I am glad to see you. Let me introduce myself. My name is Maria Shvaleva. I came from Kazakhstan. I have always dreamt of studying in Moscow and at last I am here. I am a first year student of Moscow Shoes Modeling and Marketing college. One of my favourite subjects is English. I am fond of learning foreign languages. It`s not only a hobby. My future profession of an accountant will be connected with English as well.

5.  As I am a teenager I read a lot about the rights of teenagers. While studying teenagers` rights on education I got interested in the system of schoolchildren knowledge assessment. Do pupils have rights to have their knowledge proper measured and assessed? So, my theme sounds like this: Is the present school system of knowledge assessment correspondent to modern education?

8. It was Germany which was the first to start assessing pupils` knowledge. In Russia it happened in 1737, during the reign of Anna Ioanovna. It`s interesting to note there were different scales of knowledge assessment in Russia 3-, 5- and 8-, 10-,12-point ones. And only 5-point system was officially adopted in 1837 by the Ministry of Е ducation. «1» — poor knowledge; «2» — satisfactory; « З » — enough; «4» — good; «5» — excellent. And it is still being used in the majority of Russian schools and colleges.

9.  Teachers and psychologists are sure that a school mark must:  correspondent to teaching programs, t.i. be valid;  provide feedback: give a pupil information of his success and failure in studying; give a teacher information of the achieved purposes;  be a form of pupil encouraging but not a form of punishment;  promote formation and development of students` self-esteem.

10.  In 1990- es, teachers started realizing shortcomings of the existed knoledge evaluation system and in different educational institutions of Russia new approaches to evaluation of students cognitive activity were tested.  The main idea was in the transmission from 5-point to many point system as in other foreign countries.

11.  Modern world evaluation system  In the majority of world countries there is a  wider mark scale from 6 in Poland to 100 point in Japan. Lithuania, Moldavia, Byelorussia use a 10 point evaluation system.  In Great Britain they have a verbal evaluation of pupil`s activity. It gives an opportunity to present a detailed characteristic of a pupil.  The majority of colleges and secondary schools in the USA use a literal system to assess pupil`s progress in study. In the system A means “excellent”, B- “good”, C – “satisfactory”, D – “poor”, F – “failure”.

13.  As far as I could understand, the relevance of the problem of learning results evaluation is associated in recent years with the introduction of the Federal State Educational Standard at primary and secondary school.  Psychologists, teachers and, of course, we, students, consider that in new conditions the outdated evaluation system should be reformed because it has drawbacks:

14. Drawbacks of 5-point system From my point of view, the main drawback of the current 5-point system is that the mark becomes pupil`s aim, t.i. “five” doesn`t always represent excellent knowledge. When our teacher gives us “4+”we ask “5 -“, realizing that in this case the teacher will put only 5 in the register. Besides, the price of “five” is different at different teachers.

15. There were different ideas of how to reform the system. But from psychologists and teachers` point of view 10 point system is the most proper one because it will allow teachers to evaluate the virtual knowledge level of pupi ls.

16. 10-POINT SYSTEMTRADITIONAL  10  9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2  1  5  4  3  poor

17. Conclusion I think modern education, teachers` tries to start a new system of knowledge evaluation will encourage scientists to develop new criteria for evaluation of students `s knowledge.

18.  Thank you for your attention