Keyword: «competence approach»

The article deals with theoretical and methodological approaches to the formation of the information culture of cadets of military engineering specialties. The rationale for information, activity, competence, technology, personality-oriented and synergetic approaches to the research of the problem is presented.

This theme shows practical possibilities of forming interdisciplinary results of learning through the using methods of synectics on the lessons of natural-science cycle. Besides of the development of skills of making non-standard decisions in situations of uncertainty, the use of this method contributes to better assimilation of information, its consolidation in long-term memory, as well as associative thinking.

The article deals with the problems of formation of professional competences of students in specialized secondary education. The results of a survey conducted in Ryazan Construction College named after the Hero of the Soviet Union V. A. Beglov are described. After the analysis, the author comes to the conclusion about the necessity of a wider and more active use of a certain set of pedagogical techniques in English classes.

The quality of education and its evaluation is one of the urgent problems of higher education, as the problem of reducing the quality of education today affects the education system as a whole. The introduced federal state educational standards of higher education, in the section "Evaluation of the quality of basic educational programs learning", contain requirements that employers should be given the opportunity to evaluate the content, organization and quality of the educational process as a whole. Because of this, the research of the labor market in terms of the demand for key competences of graduates and young specialists who come to work immediately after graduation from higher education institution is rather relevant. The purpose of this article is to analyze the most popular expectations of the labor market in rural areas of the South of Russia regarding University graduates – young specialists in various fields of agriculture. The main method of research is a sociological study (questionnaire), an additional method is an interview. Quantitative processing of the received data was made with the help of Excel program in relative (percent) and arithmetic mean values (average score). The sampling method (quota sampling method, taking into account the profile of training/specialty) provides the necessary level of representativeness of the study results. The article considers the leading theoretical approaches to the study of competence-based approach issues in education, evaluation of the quality of educational work, as well as various criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of higher education institutions proposed by the world's leading rating systems available in the foreign and domestic pedagogical literature of recent years. On the basis of the results of the theoretical review of the literature, it is possible to make conclusions about the problems in the sphere of graduates’ training, manifested in the lack of a number of universal core competences formation and non-cognitive "soft" skills. It is shown that monitoring the quality of teaching at the University on the basis of feedback from employers is important for the effective management of the educational process, as it allows us to identify more clearly the strong points of this process and the areas for its improvement. The results of the study showed that there are no uniform universal requirements for graduates training among employers. The ideal graduate – a young specialist from the point of view of the employer may be described as a ready professional with project thinking and capable of using the full range of information technologies. However, employers in general, taking as a fact the lack of some competences and professional experience, and in particular – a significant lack of practical training of graduates, expressed a desire to see among young specialists a wish for career making and professional development, the ability to work in a team, make management decisions, bear responsibility for them, as well as to have physical and mental health, psychological stability, high cultural level. The theoretical and practical significance of the study is in the development of diagnostic methods and questionnaires for monitoring the quality of education, as well as practical recommendations for the correction of educational work in the engineering University.

The article is devoted to the issues of competence-based approach and the impact of competencies on the development of personality, skills and abilities, students on the example of practical work in the study of the discipline "Intellectual systems and technologies."