Assessment of Students’ Supra-Professional Competencies in an Online Format

Technologization of the educational process leads to the need to search for methods and technologies for evaluating students’ competencies in an online format. Content analysis of publications on the assessment of students’ competencies showed the relevance of studying the possibilities of using online assessment in higher education. The article reveals the content of online assessment of not only professional, but also supraprofessional competencies of students. The authors present the results of the all-Russian competition of supraprofessional competencies “Assessment “Teachers of the 21st century” in an online format. The assessment centre is based on supra-professional competencies, the profile of which was determined in advance. The approach used by the authors makes it possible to assess students’ supra-professional competencies simultaneously in different areas of training. The article shows that the students demonstrated an average and above average level of development of supra-professional competencies. The feedback from the participants presented in the discussion confirms the relevance and timeliness of its organization in an online format. Summing up the results of the online assessment made it possible to formulate a number of advantages of this assessment format: accuracy, budget, objectivity, and convenience of the organization. The results of the study may be of interest to university teachers, organizers of competitions for students, and researchers studying the assessment of competencies.