knowledge control: a complete set of methods used to determine a student's progress in mastering a discipline (course) or module. Usually, these methods include a written, oral, laboratory, and practical test/exam, a project, a presentation (report) with accompanying documents. The control of knowledge can be intermediate (current certification-self-control) - so that the student can assess the progress in the development of knowledge, or conducted by an educational institution to determine whether the student has achieved the results of training at the end of a section of the course or module (certification - based on the results of a section of the course, discipline or module).