Assessment kit as a diagnosing tool of professional education quality

 In the system of professional education, the highly relevant problem is to ensure reliable and valid assessment of graduates’ competences, as well as to develop appropriate tools to do this as explicitly as possible. One of the indicators used in the accreditation of an educational organization is the proportion of students showing certain results when working with diagnostic tools from the assessment kit. The purpose of the study is to identify and justify the diagnostic capabilities of the assessment kit tools to improve the quality of professional education. In the course of the study, the authors analyzed the practice of developing and using assessment tools for training area 35.03.06 “Agroengineering” in a number of agricultural universities in Russia: Volgograd State Agrarian University, Kuzbass State Agricultural Academy, Belgorod State Agrarian University named after V.Ya. Gorin, Irkutsk State Agrarian University named after A.A. Ezhevsky and Ulyanovsk State Agrarian University named after P.A. Stolypin. A total of 365 students took part in the study. Sets of assessment tools included 40 questions each from descriptors, reflecting the development of several general professional competences. The greatest difficulties arose for students when passing tests, which included questions reflecting the content of several competences. To ensure that the training of graduates meets the requirements of state accreditation of ducational activities, the authors emphasized the ways to modernize the content and methods of teaching students, taking into account the development trends of the competence-based approach in the theory and practice of professional education.

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