MODEL OF ELECTRONIC ASSESSMENT SYSTEM OUTSIDE OF CLASSTIME IN VOCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION - ESSENCE, ADVANTAGES AND CHALLENGES

This article examines the normative framework related to the assessment of students in VET in Bulgaria, as well as various modern electronic technologies for assessing the knowledge and skills of learners. An extracurricular grading model is presented to automatically grade and log the students grade in the school e-Journal. A SWOT analysis is made, and the results of a survey among teachers from secondary schools and vocational high schools are presented, which aims to explore their opinion on the effectiveness of such electronic assessment which is not during class time. The results are not strongly connected only with Bulgaria but arepresumably relevant for more broad discourse of the assessment in VET with its characeristics and specifics mentioned in the main part analysis.