"Pedagogical Sciences"/ 2. Problems of training specialists

 

Kurtas S.A.

 

Glukhov National Pedagogical University of Alexander Dovzhenko, Ukraine

 

EXPERIENCE OF STUDYING OF THE CONDITION OF FORMATION OF EVALUATED COMPETENCE OF FUTURE TEACHERS OF THE HIGH SCHOOL

 

The modern educational system needs the highly qualified teachers capable not only to transfer to pupils and students subject knowledge, but also to carry out high-quality diagnostic, correctional, developing, advisory and estimated activity. It demands appropriate level of master preparation and high responsibility for results of the professional activity.

One of priority requirements to the modern teacher is high level of formation of the evaluated competence, which essence, such russian researchers of this problem as. Akhmadieva and Sytnikova, see in "evaluated activity and readiness for use of rational ways of evaluation" [1] and "to a measure of competence of future teacher in the solving of professional evaluated tasks on the basis of methodological, analytical, activity, axiological, predictive, evaluated and resultant knowledge, abilities, professional and pedagogical experience" [3].

The concept "evaluated competence" is considered, by us, as "the condition, being characterized existence by the acquired personality of set of knowledge, abilities, skills and personal experience which allows it to be effective in realization of process of evaluation of students’ educational achievements; ability to use rational ways of an assessment and correctly and objectively to evaluate knowledge; ability to implement the control and an assessment taking into account specific features and opportunities of students" [2]. Existence at the teacher of these qualities allows evaluating effectively educational achievements of pupils and students.

For the formation at future teacher of evaluated competence preliminary explanation of level of its readiness for implementation of evaluated activity is important.

The stating stage of pedagogical experiment, in which 280 undergraduates took part of Glukhov national pedagogical university of A. Dovzhenko, the Municipal institution of the Sumy regional institute of postgraduate pedagogical education and the Sumy state pedagogical university of A.S. Makarenko, was carried out for this purpose.

In the definition of a condition of formation of evaluated competence of future teacher of the high school the testing method was used.

The stating stage of pedagogical experiment allowed finding out, how operating system of professional training of future teachers of the high school influences formation of their evaluated competence. For this purpose, blocks of test tasks on motivational valuable, cognitive and activity components of evaluated competence of future teachers of high education institutions, masters, were developed.

Test tasks of the motivational and valuable block were directed on: identification of understanding by future teachers and current graduate students of a role and value of evaluated activity for work in high education institution; identification of level of interest to evaluated activity; studying of experience of evaluated activity of future teacher. The cognitive block of test tasks was directed on detection of completeness, depth, systematicity and awareness of knowledge of future teachers about types, functions, the principles, methods and forms of evaluation of students’ educational achievements. The activity block of test tasks promoted the identification of durability, sensibleness by future teachers of the higher school of evaluated abilities, ability to transfer them to new non-standard conditions.

The evaluation of answers of undergraduates on test questions of motivational and valuable, cognitive and activity components of evaluated competence of future teacher was carried out according to high, average and low levels.

To a high level of a motivational and valuable component of evaluated competence of the undergraduate at a stating stage are inherent deep understanding by the student of a role of evaluated activity in professional activity of the teacher of higher education institution; steady interest to evaluated activity generally and its methods in particular; rich practical experience of evaluated activity; to average – weak understanding of a role of an evaluated component of professional activity; situational interest to evaluated activity and methods of its realization; incidental initiative in evaluated activity; limited experience of evaluated activity; to the low – misunderstanding of a role of an evaluated component of professional activity; amorphous interest to evaluated activity, lack of initiative in evaluated activity; advantage of reproductive forms of activity, lack of students' experience of evaluated activity.

To a high level of cognitive component of evaluated competence of the undergraduate at a stating stage are inherent the system of student's knowledge in the field of evaluation, establishing deep interrelations between types of evaluated activity, understanding of their essence; knowledge of functions, the principles, methods and forms of evaluation of students' educational achievements, teachers' readiness to carry out evaluated activity; to average - separate knowledge of the student about evaluated activity, students' knowledge of types of evaluated activity; weak understanding of their essence and interrelations between them; not accuracy in definition of functions, principles, methods and forms of evaluation of educational achievements of students; incidental readiness to carry out evaluated activity; to the low – scattered information of the student about evaluated activity; misunderstanding of depth of interrelations between its types; ignorance by the student of functions, principles, methods and forms of evaluation of students' educational achievements and lack of readiness to carry it out.

To a high level of an activity component of evaluated competence of the undergraduate at a stating stage are inherent formation in full evaluated abilities of the student; their free transfer in new, non-standard situations; perfect possession of a technique of evaluation of educational achievements; to average – formation in the sufficient volume of evaluated student's abilities; confidence when using in familiar situations; complications when transferring into new situations; certain difficulties in using of various evaluated technologies, need for the incidental advisory help of the teacher; to the low – formation of separate evaluated abilities of the student, their application at the level of reproduction with certain difficulties; considerable difficulties when using in new situations, lack of abilities to apply methods and technologies of an evaluation, need for the constant advisory help of the teacher.

Results of test poll of undergraduates, future teachers of the high school, showed that their vast majority understands a role of evaluated activity; shows considerable interest to it, however uses incidentally. Sufficient completeness, depth, sensibleness of knowledge of logic, structure, functions of evaluated activity are inherent in future teachers, but some shortcomings of systematicity of its understanding are observed. The analysis of tasks of test poll on an activity component of evaluated competence of teachers showed that the majority of undergraduates doesn’t possess tools and methodology of evaluation of knowledge, but, at the same time, insists on importance of evaluated activity. The majority of undergraduates has no additional source of knowledge and incidentally owns the principles of the organization of evaluated work.

The results of answers to the test tasks are the following: high level of a motivational and valuable component at 163 (58,2 %) interrogated respondents, average – at 111 (39,6 %), low – 6 (2,1 %); high level of a cognitive component at 29 (10,3 %) undergraduates, average – at 163 (58,2 %), low – 88 (31,4 %) respondents; high level of an activity component at 34 (12,1 %) respondents, average – at 150 (53,5 %), low – 96 (34,2 %).

On the basis of the analysis of undergraduates' answers, we drew a conclusion, that low and average levels of evaluated competence have the majority of respondents: at considerable number of respondents lack of steady interest to evaluated activity is observed, though they point to its obligation; not all of them are able to carry out the evaluation of educational achievements of pupils; a significant amount of future teachers only incidentally possesses evaluated skills and abilities, accurately don't realize their value for further professional activity.

Thus, the analysis of test poll of undergraduates showed that today there is a problem as in adequacy of understanding of an essence of "evaluated competence", and of disclosure of features of its formation at future teachers of the high school.

 

Literature

 

1.     Akhmadieva ZH.K. Development of estimated competences of future teachers in the conditions of informatization of education [Text] / Zh.K. Akhmadieva// Humanities. – 2005 . – No. 4. – Page 249 - 254.

2.     Kurtas S.A. Evaluated competence of the teacher of the high school: tutorial / S.A. Kurtas – Sumy: EPD: SRIPPE, 2012. – 100 pages.

3.     Sytnikova A.V. Essence of evaluated competence in the context of competence-based approach / [Electronic resource]. – Access mode to journal. : http://genproedu.com/paper/2009-01/full_067-070.pdf