PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL COMPONENTS OF THE QUALITY OF PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY OF SCIENTIFIC AND PEDAGOGICAL WORKERS

Abstract

The monograph takes the point further of the quality of professional activity of a scientific and pedagogical worker at the present stage of human development and its criteria. It grounds the psychological and pedagogical model, which ensures the quality of professional activity of academic staff. This model epitomizes a system of psychological and pedagogical elements (units) with specified characteristics and properties, which correctly correspond in their value, purpose, and time. They reproduce the process of providing and maintaining a high level of professional knowledge, skills, general and professional competencies, personal qualities and self-organization, professional abilities, professional orientation and activity, motivation for an effective professional activity and psychological and pedagogical professional reputation in interaction with applicants for higher education. It is proved that in structural and functional terms the psychological and pedagogical model of ensuring the quality of professional activity of a scientific and pedagogical worker includes the following interrelated functional units: 1) a knowledge-competency-personal module, which maintains the academic staff’s knowledge, skills, competencies, personal qualities and reputation at a proper level; 2) a professional-motivational module, which motivates to achieve success in professional activities; 3) a professional-managerial module, which effectively manages the higher education process; 4) a professional-orientational module, which ensures its positive professional orientation; 5) a professional-constructive module, which shapes its psychological and pedagogical reputation, as well as prevents occupational hazards. In general this model contains 16 components, which are functionally interacting and ensure the quality of a scientific and pedagogical worker's professional activity. The author has developed a methodology for determining and evaluating the level of development of the quality of research and teaching staff's professional activity and all its components. The level of professional activity of each scientific and pedagogical employee of the sample is empirically determined based on the assessment of its components. The features and differences are also empirically revealed concerning the quality of professional activity of seven subgroups of scientific and pedagogical workers, grouped by their age and length of teaching experience. The monograph broadens knowledge about the content of psychological and pedagogical professional reliability of a scientific and pedagogical worker and its dependence on the worker's professional burnout. The author has further developed the following: ideas about the psychological and pedagogical components of the quality of professional activity of scientific and pedagogical workers; methods of psychodiagnostics of psychological and pedagogical professional reliability of a scientific and pedagogical worker.