Abstract
In the system of professional education, the highly relevant problem isto ensure reliable and valid assessment of graduates’ competences, as well asto develop appropriate toolsto do this as explicitly as possible. One of the indicators used in the accreditation of an educational organization isthe proportion ofstudentsshowing certain results when working with diagnostic toolsfrom the assessment kit. The purpose of the study isto identify and justify the diagnostic capabilities of the assessment kit tools to improve the quality of professional education. In the course of the study, the authors analyzed the practice of developing and using assessment toolsfor training area 35.03.06 “Agroengineering” in a number of agricultural universitiesin Russia: Volgograd StateAgrarian University, Kuzbass StateAgriculturalAcademy, Belgorod State Agrarian University named after V.Ya. Gorin, Irkutsk State Agrarian University named after A.A. Ezhevsky and Ulyanovsk State Agrarian University named after P.A. Stolypin. A total of 365 students took part in the study. Sets of assessment toolsincluded 40 questions each from descriptors, reflecting the development ofseveral general professional competences.The greatest difficulties arose forstudents when passing tests, which included questionsreflecting the content ofseveral competences. To ensure that the training of graduates meetsthe requirements ofstate accreditation of educational activities, the authors emphasized the waysto modernize the content and methods of teaching students, taking into account the development trends of the competence-based approach in the theory and practice of professional education.
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