Using the Portfolio Method as a Tool for Evaluating Educational Achievements in the Conditions of Professional Training

— The value of the portfolio method lies in the fact that such an educational process can be built around it and in connection with it that allows you to develop or form some cognitive-personal qualities (competencies) that are put forward by the world of education and work as necessary for each person to actively participate in life of a modern democratic information society. To use the portfolio method as an effective tool for assessing students' achievements, psychological and pedagogical conditions and material bases were established, i.e. use of computers and interactive technologies, support for the experiment of introducing the portfolio method by the psychological service of the educational institution. The practical significance of the study lies in the fact that normative documents have been developed and adapted for the implementation of the portfolio method and its maintenance, recommendations are given to increase the efficiency of work on the portfolio. All this can be used by teachers at various levels of schooling in the organization of educational activities of students, assessing the quality of educational results, developing the reflective position of students, building the trajectory of an individual educational route. The results of the study will help teachers in the theoretical rethinking of the substantive and technological aspects of organizing the process of activating the learning activities of students, using the portfolio method in educational practice. for the holistic development and disclosure of the personality. The implementation this approach in the educational activities of a becomes possible only with the active position of the student.