COMPUTER TESTING AS A MEANS OF MONITORING OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL MUSIC TEACHERS

Among the numerous tools for monitoring of future music teachers educational achievements the author of the article emphasizes the computer testing, which is now widely used at all levels of the educational system, including art education. The specificity of professional competence of future music primary school teachers was included in the parameters that should be assessed by means of the test control: musicological thesaurus, knowledge of psychological and pedagogical theories and methods of music lessons in primary school, historical and theoretical professional knowledge, individual skills before just listening to music. The procedure for monitoring the professional competence of future music teachers is described as an example of the course "History of musical art." The article analyzes the results of a computer testing of musical knowledge and skills of future music teachers who receive training in the Donbas State Pedagogical University (Sloviansk).