Technology for Assessing the Level of Competence Formation of a Graduate of Technical University

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”.