Criteria and formation levels of professional competences of specialists of the nature protection branch in ecological monitoring

Natalia Bordiug

doi:10.15587/2519-4984.2019.174106

Abstract

During the study there were elaborated criteria and estimation levels of the multi-step system of training specialists of the nature protection branch for ecological monitoring: for future specialists and professionals by the formation level of professional competences in ecological monitoring; for specialists of the nature protection branch by the level of readiness to the professional activity. There was constructed a criteria-level scale for estimating future competences formation of future specialists that includes motivational, theoretical-methodological and analytical-practical criteria. The estimation is realized by reproductive, sufficient and high levels. For future professionals in ecological monitoring, the criteria-level scale for estimating professional competence formation includes motivation-value, activity-practical, scientific-research criteria and interpreting, constructive, research levels. For the professional development of specialists of the nature protection branch in the system of postgraduate education, a criteria-level scale was developed for estimating the level of readiness to the professional activity, including the following criteria: motivational-axiological for estimating formation motives of the professional nature protective activity; competence for estimating professionalism; professional attitude for estimating a personal attitude to the professional activity, especially independence in making decisions, in using different approaches to solving complicated ecological situations, in elaborating and planning projects for improving the environment quality. Corresponding to peculiarities of the professional development, there were determined readiness levels, namely basic, integrative-projective, creative. There were elaborated and substantiated criteria, parameters and levels that provide the estimation of the multi-level training system of specialists of the nature protection branch for ecological monitoring through the formation of professional competences and readiness to the professional activity

Highlights

In the modern world requirements to qualified workers, especially to specialists of the nature protection branch that realize monitoring of the condition and development of territories grow fast
There were separated three criteria of readiness to the professional activity in ecological monitoring: – Motivational-axiological – gives a possibility to estimate the formation of motives of the professional nature protective activity in ecological monitoring, ability to self-education, self-development and selforganization; – competence – discovers their professionalism, especially components, manifested in their activity: ability to processing, systematization, estimation and analysis of environment components, ability to elaborate models, prognoses, scenarios of the development of ecological situations; use of nature protection innovations; – professional attitude – estimation of a personal attitude to the professional activity, especially independence in making decisions, in using different approaches to solving complicated ecological situations, in elaborating and planning projects for improving the environment quality
The basic level of readiness to the professional activity is typical for specialists, who have no satisfaction from the professional activity in the nature protection branch, no desire to self-development, self-realization, realize professional duties by the standard checked scheme, absence of the organization competence as to elaborating the system of ecological monitoring and supporting it

Summary

Introduction

In the modern world requirements to qualified workers, especially to specialists of the nature protection branch that realize monitoring of the condition and development of territories grow fast. That is why their training in the system of higher and postgraduate education, formation of professional competences in them is urgent. For verifying the effectiveness of the multi-level training system of specialists of the nature protection branch for ecological monitoring, it is necessary to measure this process, its development and to study the dynamics of changes in formation levels of professional competences and readiness to the professional activity. For realizing the studied problems, it is worth to use criteria, parameters and levels of formation that are the base of the measuring process and give a possibility to elaborate diagnostic instruments

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