Constructive Tasks as a Tool of Invasive and Non-invasive Assessment of Knowledge

Constructive tasks are very important and appear in every branch of mathematics. This work is devoted to some experiments with constructive tasks held within the education and assessment process. Firstly, some remote constructive tasks were given to students within a course of Mathematical Logic and Theory of Algorithms. The tasks served only as a support tool and students were not obliged to solve them. Secondly, tasks of the same types were given to elder students which had already passed the course with an additional request to log their intellectual activity while solving the tasks. The third experiment was held during the written exam. Constructive tasks which were given to the students appeared as “the reverse” to the tasks they had solved during the semester.