Yulia G. Novikova

The relevance of the research is determined by current trends in the digital transformation of education and the requirements of the labor market for the training of IT specialists in a new format. In the context of the implementation of national projects on the digital economy, there is an urgent need for personnel with not only professional competences (hard skills), but developed supra-professional skills (soft skills) as well. The existing vocational training system does not provide a sufficient level of these competences development within the framework of traditional approaches. The aim of the research is to develop and experimentally verify the methodology of using digital pedagogical technologies for the effective development of professional skills and supra-professional skills among students of IT specialties of vocational education. The research methodology is based on an integrated approach, including pedagogical experiment using domestic digital tools. The study was conducted on the basis of the college of Altai State University using statistical data processing methods (Student's t-test) and comparative analysis of the results of the control and experimental groups. The main results of the study demonstrate a statistically significant increase of competences in the experimental group when using the author's original methodology. The application of end-to-end project-based activities in the digital ecosystem has shown more stable and guaranteed learning outcomes compared to the traditional approach. The effectiveness of the integration of domestic digital tools for the development of both hard skills (programming, database design) and soft skills (teamwork, project thinking) has been experimentally confirmed. The theoretical significance of the work lies in the development of a model of digital pedagogical tools that transform the content of IT disciplines into an integrated project environment. A methodology for the synergetic development of professional and supra-professional competences in a digital educational environment is proposed. The practical significance is determined by the possibility of using the developed methodology and diagnostic tools for updating vocational education programs. The results of the study contribute to improving the quality of training of IT specialists who meet the requirements of the digital economy of Russia, and can be used in the practice of professional education.