To the question of the methodology for developing a digital profile of a higher school graduate

This article reveals the methodology of developing a digital profile of a graduate of a higher school. The relevance of the topic is connected with the solution to the tasks of the state program “Digital Kazakhstan” concerning the improvement of digital literacy in secondary, technical and vocational, and higher education. Nowadays, the development of an electronic portfolio of teachers and students is widely used, which allows systematically accumulating a variety of information about their professional and educational achievements. At the same time, being specific and understandable for internal subjects of higher education, they are not informative enough for external stakeholders, the main of which are employers. The recent measures taken to the issue of the Diploma Supplement do not fully meet the requirements of digitalization. In this regard, there are problems of collecting, storing, and issuing detailed information about the competencies of graduates of higher education and the dynamics of these competencies, which would be available to key recruits. The novelty of the article lies in the fact that the basis for the development of a digital profile of a student/graduate of a higher school is a competence model, which contains three components (affective, cognitive, activity), five generalized indicators (1.1 Socially significant personality qualities, 1.2 Professionally significant personality qualities, 2.1 Knowledge (academic achievements), 2.2 Knowledge (scientific achievements), 3.1 Skills and abilities), for the measurement of which criteria will subsequently be developed and descriptors will be given at three levels (optimal, acceptable, critical). The purpose and objectives of this article are selection and construction of a methodology for developing a digital profile in the form of an algorithm of actions aimed at revealing the essence of the digital profile, designing a competence model of a graduate of a higher school as an image of the expected result of professional training of future specialists. The methodology of developing a digital profile involves a number of sequential steps: 1) research and disclosure of the essence of the digital profile of a student/graduate of a university; 2) designing a competence model of a graduate of a higher school as an image of the expected result of professional training of future specialists. This formulation of the question determines the general logic of the research, ensures that methodological approaches and scientific methods correspond to the goals and objectives of developing a digital profile of a student/graduate of a higher school, which is fundamentally different from the electronic portfolio used today in the real practice of higher education.