Assessment of Students' Universal Competences when Mastering Educational Programs
Transition to the competence-based approach transforms radically the education system including the grading system of students. Specific feature of the process of estimating training results at the competence-based approach is demonstration of competences of the behavioural actions observed and correlated to certain criteria of the educational purposes. This article is devoted to the problem of assessing and measuring universal competences. Universal competences are one of innovations of the upgraded Federal state educational standard of the higher education, uniform (at education levels) for all fields of education. Universal competences are the significant instrument in unification of educational results and ensuring continuity of the higher education levels and reflect expectations of modern society regarding social and personal positioning of the graduate of the higher education program of the appropriate level there and his potential readiness to self-realization and self-development. The concept «universal» assumes that they are everywhere - in all modules of the educational program and in different types of activity. It causes the idea of assessing the environmental component of the educational programs, namely existence of types of activity authentic for formation of universal competences. The authors claim that having designed a through, complex and variable system of formation of universal competences with use of all means of the university environment it is possible to increase considerably probability of training the staff, who can introduce new technology solutions, operate processes of professional activity changes in conditions of social dynamics, be developed within the profession received in the higher education organization, and beyond its limits.