INTELLECTUAL COMPETENCE: ESSENCE, COMPONENTS, LEVELS OF FORMATION

Abstract

The article reveals the essence of the concept of «intelligence» and «intellectual competence», grounded components of formation of intellectual competence and determine the levels of its formation. The authors on the basis of the analysis of scientific literature, determined that intellectual competence covers all elements of the content of education: general educational skills, meta-knowledge, over-subject activities. Intellectual competence is the basis of the individual style of cognitive activity of students, which underlies their future professional functioning. Attention is focused on the fact that intellectual competence is the basic and fundamental for the formation of the rest of the competence, under which the authors understand the ability to master the methods of active cognitive processes in the comprehension, application, analysis, generalization, evaluation and synthesis of information. As a result of the work, carried out, the structure of intellectual competence, which consists of motivational-value, cognitive, met cognitive, self-educational, research, communicative and personal components. The described components of intellectual competence helped us determine the levels of the formation of intellectual competence of future specialists: high, average and low. High level of students intellectual competence provides the ability of a creative approach to solving intellectual problems and analysis of the results. Average level is characterized by students understanding the meaning, of importance of their intellectual activity, have the ability to understand the purpose of activity. The low level of intellectual competence of students is characterized by a lack of understanding of the importance and value of intellectual competence, demonstrate fickle interest in solving intellectual problems, impossibility of realizing the goal of their intellectual activity, have difficulties in analyzing own intellectual activity. Key words: intellect, intellectual competence, components, levels, student, university, educational process.