ПРОБЛЕМЫ ОЦЕНКИ ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОЙ ПОДГОТОВКИ: МЕТОДОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ ПОДХОДЫ

Introduction. Over the last two years, in the official documents of the Government of the Russian Federation there has been the requirement to organize the professional training of students in accordance with the professional standards. The verification of the compliance with the standards should be provided through the procedures of objective assessment of qualification of college and university graduates. Thus, in the current conditions arose the need to searching for new assessment tools or ways to improve the previous ones. The authors believe that the new and original ideas can be derived from the fields of real sectors of productive-economic and social activity where the aspects of determination of quality of the final product are worked out far better, and interpretations of the results of activity are unambiguous and consistent Aim. Taking into account the aspects of education management and established practices of assessment procedures, the aim of the present publication is to discuss general methodological approaches to organization of scientific-methodical maintenance of the expertise on the results of professionals’ training in educational institutions. Methodology and research methods. The research is based on the qualimetric and system-based approaches, methods of comparative analysis of the content of the local and foreign normative documents as well as a wide range of scientific publications that describe the theory and practice of application of assessment in educational technical, economic and management systems. Results and scientific novelty. According to the introduced professional standards, methodological problems of measurement of students’ knowledge and adequacy of their assessment are designated. Various approaches to assessment of education quality and its results are described; assessment procedure and its main tools are presented: criteria, parameters, indicators and norms as a reference point in the choice of standards for assessment. It is stated that the traditional methods and means of assessment accepted today in education are severely outdated and continue to lag far behind progressive tendencies of quality measurement. In particular, widespread test measurements of educational achievements of graduates of the higher (and secondary) school are not holistic therefore cannot be considered as valid, especially concerning the level of professional qualification. On the basis of synthesis of the approaches to assessment in various spheres, the possibility of their application in the organizations of professional education is approved. The considered technique and technology of development of evaluative judgments are based on the results of the formalized expert procedures; thus enabling to draw various conclusions about activity of the separate organizations and education systems in general, to reveal the level of bringing them into line with norms and standards of the received results and deviations from the rated values, as well as to perform the required training correction procedures. The authors stress the need for formation of a team of the qualified experts capable to provide development and implementation of effective technologies for the organization of assessment activities. Practical significance. The problem research area on the search for new approaches to internal procedures for assessment of the graduates’ competencies is determined. The objectivity of evaluation and reliability of the results of such procedures have to be comparable to similar performance characteristics of the Centers for Independent Assessment of Professional Qualifications. It will enable to significantly reduce transactional costs of all agents of educational services, and will create conditions for transition from the existing standard-qualification reference books to the system of professional standards.