In-House Monitoring over Student Competence Formation

Abstract

The paper offers a special model of monitoring over dynamics of student competence formation that deals with the connection between the study performances of a student and/or a student group and the quantitative assessment of the student competence level being formed during the whole training period of the major educational program. The methodological approaches to the competence formation assessment in the Final Certifying Examination of graduates have been considered in many researches. However, the control over competence formation within a coursework, search for the tools effecting on a timely correction of teaching methods and techniques aiming at individualization of a competence-based portrait of a student also make an essential task of a higher education institution. Such a task can be solved on the base of the competence-oriented curriculum with the main component being a matrix of the competences to be formed and the subjects to be studied. The model of monitoring system over competence formation is founded on integration of the subject study performances (including their weighted contribution) into competence formation. The monitoring over a competence formation level is an integrated part of an education system and fulfills two main functions. The first one is a control function over provision of educational performances, i.e. dynamics of competence formation in the mastery of an educational program. The second one is a forecasting function for a qualification level after completion of the educational program. The model of the assessment of the competence formation level on the different stages of education allows to assess the performance both of a student and a student group, to build up an individual curriculum, to improve the efficiency of an employer-sponsored education.