Development of students’ information skills during project-based learning

Abstract

The aim of the study was to experimentally test the effectiveness of pedagogical conditions for the development of information skills in students in project-based learning. The research methodology was presented by the competence-based approach, from the position of which information skills were considered as an important component of students’ information competence, the project activity of students was a way of forming information skills. The leading research methods were pedagogical experiment and expert assessment. It has been experimentally proven that the process of developing students’ information skills in project-based learning can be effective if: the subject of projects will be formed based on the content of academic disciplines, taking into account the direction of professional training; the type of project will characterize the dominant goal of the students’ activity; the structure of the project will be determined by its type; students’ project activities will be carried out in the form of group independent work. The following methodologies were used: the methodology for assessing the projects completed by students, as well as the methodology for assessing the development of information skills among students. For the first time, the comparative analysis results of the various groups of information skills development among students-future teachers of different areas of professional training are presented. The results of the research can be used in the design of training sessions both in the social and humanitarian, and in the natural sciences and engineering disciplines at the university.