Diagnosis of Students Intellectual Potential on Pedagogical Specialties

Abstract

Reforms of higher education in Kazakhstan aim to develop the personality of a student, his creative abilities in professional activity. Therefore, it necessary to establish conditions for assessing students’ intelligence and projecting their personal enhancement. This research deals with issues of diagnostics of students’ intellectual potential and development of software for such diagnostics. The software has been available to students of pedagogical specialties at 10 higher education institutions of Kazakhstan by mobile learning.The purpose of the research is to diagnose levels of intellectual potential of students studying at ten tertiary institutions of Kazakhstan whose specialties are “Social pedagogics and self-knowledge” and “Pedagogics and psychology”.Met-hods of research: short-form selection test (by V. Buzin, E.F.Wonderlic), emotional intelligence test, test of creative potential and creativity, test to determine levels of development of imagination, A.M. Schubert risk propensity test, S. Budassi technique for studying self-esteem of a person and others.Technique to diagnose intellectual potential of a person enabled to analyze thoroughly and fully students’ levels of development of this capacity, to form their adequate perception of the level of their intellectual and cognitive development, the level of their self-esteem and perception of themselves as individuals and professionals, the level of development of their empathy and skills for relationships with surrounding persons.The developed complex diagnostic technology can be widely used to design individual development trajectory for students. The received results of the research on intellectual potential can be used in individual and group psychological work with university students. The developed software can be used to read elective courses, to create profiles of students and a group of students. The software is adapted for mobile learning.