Diagnostics of the formation of research skills of college students in the course of mathematical disciplines

Each graduate of a professional educational institution must quickly retrain and independently acquire new knowledge if he wants to be a specialist in demand on the labor market. But to realize this without research skills is almost impossible. And any skills need diagnostics. The purpose of the study is to determine the features of the research activity of students and methods for diagnosing research skills in the course of mathematical disciplines. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that the author proposes a diagnostic level model of the formation of research skills of college students in the framework of teaching mathematics. As a result, the essence of methods for testing the formation of research skills according to three criteria is revealed; it has also been established that a high level of formation of research skills among students allows them to easily navigate in the information field, independently search for new knowledge and flexibly master it.