Developing Content and Tools for Assessing the Effectiveness of Undergraduate Programme in Psychology and Education

Abstract

The article theoretically substantiates the need to solve three main problems to ensure effective psychological and pedagogical training for undergraduate students: 1) the problem of fundamental theoretical training through the discovery of one’s own basic professional knowledge and through research; 2) the problem of practice-oriented training through the design, implementation and redesign of learning activity in primary school children in order to facilitate the formation of their subject position; 3) the task of creating individual educational routes by students through practising their skills and knowledge and by preserving the subject position towards their activities. The authors prove, theoretically and experimentally, that developing basic competencies in students — such as theoretical thinking, innovativeness, communicativeness — can effectively solve the tasks of their training. To study the formation of these competencies, levels of corresponding skills assessment were introduced in the experimental group according to the training profile: reproductive, user and constructive. The article describes the content of the method of basic competencies assessment in accordance with these levels and presents statistically processed outcomes of the formation of these competencies in students of the experimental group.

Keywords

• development
• competencies
• activity approach
• modern education standards
• developmental education. development
• modern education standards