Headings of the journal
"Educational Resources and Technologies"

Annotation: In the article using the methods of regression analysis examines data from the international PISA educational monitoring. It is established that Russia shows results higher than the average for all the countries participating in the study and approaches the average results for the group of OECD countries. Parity with OECD countries is feasible in the medium term. It is proposed to use the results of the participation of Russian schools in the monitoring of PISA as criteria for assessing the effectiveness of management of educational institutions. In particular, the results of monitoring can be taken into account in the system of teachers ‘ remuneration. The proposed management principle based on the results will improve the effectiveness of the teaching staff of educational institutions and create prerequisites for the successful development of the disciplines of Humanities and natural Sciences by graduates in subsequent studies at universities.

Annotation: Factors affecting the adaptation of first-year students to new living conditions are scrutinized. Particular attention is paid to the educational component of the adaptation process. The necessity of developing an integral criterion characterizing the general educational level of the applicant is substantiated. It allows to predict the level of adaptation of the applicant to studying at the university. The integral rating criterion was obtained by the method of individual expert estimate on the example of Mathematics. The applicability of this criterion for predicting the success of the adaptation of students to the educational process in higher education is confirmed on the basis of analysis of the results obtained by 100 cadets of the Academy of the Federal Penal Service of Russia, during the entrance examinations, as well as in the learning process. Non-parametric correlations were used to find the relationships. This approach can be used to build similar integral criteria for other specialized academic disciplines that involve the passing of specialized Unified State Exams, as well as extra entrance examinations when entering a university.

Annotation: The article aims at analyzing opportunities of perfecting teaching humanities in non-humanitarian universities based on example of the Russian language. For this purpose the following objectives are reached: efficiency through the prisms of humanities is tackled; potential of such disciplines is revealed; module content structure is proved. The method of research is componential linguo-pedagogical analysis that reveals the specificity of linguistic knowledge, its interdisciplinary ties and potential opportunities of it being used for perfecting educational process.

Annotation: The article deals with the issues of implementation and evaluation of effectiveness of distant continuing education programs. Particular attention is paid to the material and technical basis, as well as to the tools of current and final control of students’ knowledge for developing their professional skills that could guarantee their effective integration into present-day social and professional space.

Annotation: The article discusses issues related to one of the most urgent problems of modern pedagogy – improving the quality of education and possible approaches to its evaluation. The new Federal state educational standards of the third generation 3+ formulate the requirements for the quality of education: the structure of educational programs, the quality of the educational process, the quality of the results focused on the competence-based, activity-based approach to its evaluation. This caused the necessity to improve the system of education quality assessment, the development of modern control and measuring materials to assess the level of knowledge, skills, the level of acquired competences from students. In this regard, the following objectives of the study were identified – to create conditions for improving the system of evaluation of the quality of training, scientific and methodological support of its control and evaluation tools, improving the efficiency of their use, search for modern forms and methods of control. The nature of the tasks determined the choice of research methods: the study and analysis of psychological, linguistic, pedagogical and methodical literature in order to establish the theoretical foundations of the study; targeted pedagogical supervision of educational activities of students, the study and synthesis of advanced pedagogical experience; conversations with students, conducting experiments; processing and analysis of the results of the experiment. The main results of the study. The system of methods and techniques for the diagnostics of the formation of cultural and speech skills, competences of students based on the level of differentiation is theoretically developed and experimentally tested. It allows to evaluate the results of the student’s learning activity taking into account its real capabilities and the initial level of knowledge. The analysis of the research indicators allows to make a conclusion about the positive dynamics of the results of the development of speech culture of students studying in a modular program based on competences. The author believes that the implementation of an integrated approach to the organization of training in the University allows to expand the educational space of Humanities, to form socially significant qualities of the future specialist.