Self-assessment of learning results by future teachers of primary school

Abstract

The article describes the peculiarities of self-assessment by students of their own learning results; highlights the state and some areas of use of self-assessment in the process of preparing future teachers of primary school. The self-assessment of learning results is regarded by researchers as a manifestation of a person’s attitude toward himself, an element of critical self-knowledge, an important regulator of behavior, a means for self-improvement of the student’s personality, and others like that. The student acts as the subject of control activities (internal control) in the process of self-control, in particular: independently plans it, implements, verifies and evaluates its learning outcomes. Formation of the ability to self-assess the learning results of future primary school teachers becomes a means and goal during their professional training so that they can further use the experience gained to self-assess the activities of junior pupils. Self-assessment of own learning results is important for the development of the student’s personality, forms the ability to critically and adequately assess their own educational achievements, as well as readiness for pedagogical activity. The results of empirical research show that most of the university’s teachers use oral and written control methods, and in forms – frontal and individual examination. Selfcontrol and self-assessment have not been so widespread in higher education. Students used formation portfolio (content analysis of concepts, formation of methodological apparatus of research, fixation of research results and their processing, mathematical calculations of results, multimedia presentation of the results of an individual study and research task) during independent work, as well as methods of interactive learning during practical training (discussion, heuristic conversation, brainstorming, etc.) for development self-assessment of their own learning results. The article is prezented that most students positively evaluate their own ability to self-control learning results, they have high and middle level reflexivity.