Keyword: «assessment of digital competences of future teachers; transformation of teacher education; model of key competences of the digital economy»

In the era of teacher education transformation, associated with the need to ensure that the training of future teachers meets the requirements of industry 4.0, the interest of the educational community in the formation, assessment and development of digital competences of students in the main professional educational programs of the enlarged group "Education and Pedagogical Sciences" is natural. The purpose of the study is to substantiate the methodology of competence-based and situational approaches to assessing the digital competences of future teachers in the context of the transformation of teacher education. The objectives of the study are: 1. To substantiate the essence and specific features of the assessment of digital competences of future teachers based on competence-based and situational approaches. 2. To assess the level of formation of students’ digital competences based on the model of key competences of the digital economy and develop recommendations for improving the assessment of digital competences of future teachers. The leading research methods were: pedagogical modeling of the assessment of digital competences; study of normative legal acts in the field of higher education; analysis of local acts of educational organizations in the field of digital competences assessment; survey methods. The study was conducted on the basis of the Vyatka State University. The experiment involved 104 students (II–IV courses) of bachelor's degree studies in the area of training "Pedagogical education". In general, the proposed approaches will make it possible to develop innovative solutions to improve the quality of teacher education in the context of its transformation. The research results obtained in the course of the study can be used by scientific and pedagogical workers of educational institutions of higher education, experts who provide an assessment of the digital competences of future teachers in the context of "blended" learning formats use, and also develop innovative solutions to improve the quality of teacher education in the context of its transformations.