didactic test, test task, electronic testing, difficulty, adaptivity

A didactic test is a tool that informs the teacher of the level of students? knowledge. It is used at all levels of education, in the final assessment and/or university and high school entrance examination. It has become even more important with the emergence of eLearning. Electronic testing allows for automatic assessment and immediate feedback for students, storing results in a database and monitoring and comparison of results. Moreover, distance tests also play an important role in distance learning where oral examination is more difficult to carry out than in full-time education. The didactic test should provide the teacher with detailed feedback on each student, their successes and their future development. In the majority of cases, however, the didactic test and formulation of test tasks only take into account the students with average results. For the students at the opposite poles of the spectrum (excellent and weak students, respectively), such a test may be easy and boring or, on the other hand, extremely difficult. However, modification of the difficulty of test tasks, their division into individual levels of difficulty and the creation of additional study materials may benefit those students.