The main idea behind this research is to create and use a system for managing the quality
of university education based on criterion scoring and monitoring of professional student
development, the comparison of information received with the graduate requirements specified in
the Federal State Educational Standard for Higher Education (FSES HE) in engineering and the
adjustment of didactic conditions for professional and personal student development based on
these indicators. The availability of such information provides the possibility to compare the actual
student development with FSES HE requirements for a particular field of education. It also gives the
opportunity to modify the educational process and identify “gaps” in contents, technologies and
other characteristics of educational process and make the appropriate changes.
The technology that is used to evaluate the maturity level of a future engineer’s competence does not
represent the evaluation of education quality as such. However, it creates a continuously updating
database for implementing such evaluation. It is used to determine the effectiveness of contents,
methods, means and forms of educational activities, etc. The suggested technology can be applied
as a specific tool for “deciphering the gaps” identified in students or, in other words, for discovering
failures in educational process management. By assessing the gaps in students’ knowledge, skills and
thoughts it is possible to discover the “failures” in educational process and the aspects that have gaps
and “defects”.
Keyword(s) : competency-based approach
Requirements of professional standards as a basis for professional development of students
Significance of the studied problem is confirmed by the fact that currently the system of higher
education in the Russian Federation is focused on the search for optimal solutions to adapt the
structure and content of higher education to the requirements of professional standards. The
Ministry of Education and Science of Russia has already started to approve new Federal State
Educational Standards of Higher Education adapted for professional standards, which will enter
into force at the end of 2017. In this regard, educational institutions of higher education will get a lot
of work aimed at organizational, didactic and methodical support for the transition of educational
process to new Federal State Educational Standards of Higher Education. The purpose of this article
is to justify and describe the model for creating space for the professional development of students,
aimed at development of their professional competencies in the field of physical education and
sports. Simulations are applied as the leading research method allowing to consider the professional
development of the future graduates in the framework of a specially designed didactic system of
competence-based format. The article shows that the space of professional development is formed
in didactic systems of the metric competence-based format between the areas of knowledge and
abilities development synchronized with the requirements of relevant professional standards.