Diagnostics of pupils’ meta-subject competence during lessons on mathematics in secondary schools

© 2016 Khuziakhmetov and Naumova.The relevance of diagnostic meta-subject competence measures in secondary schools is caused by the fact that the importance of a meta-subject competence formation was officially defined in educational standards, but there are still no qualitative and informative diagnostic tools for this competence development. The purpose of the article is to develop and test a method of pupils’ meta-subject competence diagnostics in secondary schools during mathematics lessons. The main method of the research is modeling. This method was the basis for further methodic set development and the pedagogical experiment, which allowed to use the approved methods. During the research we created a complex set of methods for pupils’ meta-subject competence diagnostics in secondary schools during mathematics lessons, which allowed to assess levels of pupils’ meta-subject knowledge and skills, to identify problematic aspects of their meta-subject competence, to define advantages of the method set and to develop recommendations for its further use. The developed diagnostic method set can be used by teachers of mathematics in secondary schools to assess levels of pupils’ meta-subject competence, which helps to draw further plans for individual meta-subject competence development in the system of mathematical education

Social competence formation of students in the process of students self-government

© 2016 by iSER, International Society of Educational Research. The topicality of the researched problem is in the fact that modern society needs educated, moral, pragmatic people who can make responsible decisions, who are able to cooperate, who is characterized by mobility, dynamism, constructive, who has a sense of responsibility for the fate of the country. Requirements for the modern school graduates are primarily concerned with the need to develop his social competence, cognitive competence, communicative information and reflective activity. The article briefly describes the conditions of the experimental work and results, aimed at the formation of social competence of students in the student government. As a result of the experimental work potential of student self-government as a factor of the formation of social competence of students were identified; a structural-functional model of social competence of students in the process of student government were developed; organizational and pedagogical conditions of effective formation of social competence of students in the process of student governments err implemented; criteria for the level of formation of social competence of students in the student self-government were defined. Materials of the article may be useful for the study of problems of competence among secondary school students, teachers, educators, who are responsible for the formation of students' competence, for refresher courses. Materials of the research can be used for developing guidelines for school staff which is involved in the formation of social competence of students

Formation of schoolchildren's creative activity on the final stage of solving a mathematical problem

© 2017 Authors. The aim of the research is to study the possibilities of the final stage of working with a mathematical problem as a means of forming schoolchildren's creative activity. The leading method of investigating this problem is to establish the correspondence between the components of the final stage of working with the mathematical problem and the procedural features of the student's creative activity. The study resulted in defining the structure of the final stage of working with a mathematical problem, which made it possible to identify a certain set of activities that make up the ability to work with the problem on the final stage of its solution. The article establishes the relationship between actions appropriate to this stage of work with the task and signs of the student's creative activity. It is proved that in the process of working with the problem on the final stage of its solution, students develop procedural features of creative activity. The author's method of forming students' creative activity suggested in the article can be used by the teachers of mathematics in school practice, by the authors of methodological manuals for students and teachers, and also can be used as the basis for a special course for students of pedagogical universities

Psychological diagnostics of the first-year students' adaptation to a higher school environment

© 2017 Serials Publications.The relevance of the investigated problem is caused by the need for theoretical basis for special activities aimed at prevention the first-year students' psychological maladjustment on the one hand, and insufficient development of theory, methodology and content of such activities on the other. It is important to diagnose emerging problems of first-year students' adaptation correctly in order to provide them with psychological help, to overcome psychological maladjustment factors during the initial period of their higher school training. The aim of the article is to justify the choice of psycho-diagnostic tools, to present the means of tools testing, to summarize the results of psycho-diagnostics of first-year students' social and psychological adaptation to a higher educational environment. The leading method of our research is psycho-diagnostics, it allows us to identify the most common causes, factors, and barriers in first-year students' effective adaptation to a higher school environment; the results of psycho-diagnostics can be used to provide students with timely psychological assistance, and to overcome psychological maladjustment factors. The results indicate that special activities aimed at the prevention of students' psychological maladjustment are of critical importance. The parameters of first-year students' adaptation levels, received on the basis of special criteria and with the help of psycho-diagnostic toolset, are presented in the article. The algorithm of psycho-diagnostic tools implementation is also given. The implementation of the proposed psycho-diagnostic toolset is aimed at prevention the first-year students' psychological maladjustment; it is focused on providing students with individual counseling and overcoming psychological maladjustment during their initial period of training

Teaching listening comprehension: Bottom-up approach

© 2016 Porchesku.Improving listening comprehension skills is one of the urgent contemporary educational problems in the field of second language acquisition. Understanding how L2 listening comprehension works can have a serious influence on language pedagogy. The aim of the paper is to discuss the practical and methodological value of the notion of the perception base of the language. It also highlights the importance of structural features and frequency of linguistic units in helping to determine teaching priorities in English language teaching, specifically, when training listening skills. The leading approaches to the problem of the paper are the psycholinguistic and statistical ones which help to identify practical teaching principles. The paper illustrates these approaches with the findings on the perceptually relevant features and frequency of the English words and sentences and their linguistic features. The findings are discussed in terms of their application in developing bottom-up listening skills and tested in a listening comprehension experiment. The materials of this article may be of use to those who are interested in problems of speech perception and improving the existing listening comprehension teaching techniques

The study of the application rate of effective learning technologies in self- regulation of KFU and VIIU students

© Author(s).The aim of the present research is the study of the application rate of learning technologies in KFU and VIIU electronic courses to improve students’ self-regulation. For this aim, this research was based on Kitsantas research, the rate of the use of effective learning technologies in students’ self-regulation in electronic courses in these two universities were studied. The statistical sample included the professors and attendants of the online courses. The research tool was interview. Results showed that wiki sites, podcasts and blogs that are effective in the creation of some of the self- regulatory processes are not used. In addition, the professors as a key factor in teaching process do not have sufficient knowledge about the role of learning technologies in promoting students’ self- regulation

Project of health-caring educational school environment for children with diabetes mellitus

© Authors. The aim of the study is to design the health-caring educational environment of a modern school for the education of children with diabetes. The leading methods to study this problem are perennial observations and the questionnaires, which revealed the health of children, their success in studying and their psychological state; sociological research, medical research of diabetes mellitus problems, theoretical analysis and generalization of scientific and pedagogical sources on the problem of health caring of students with diabetes mellitus; modeling. The study involved 20 children (aged 10 to 14) with diabetes in comprehensive schools in the Republic of Tatarstan. The main results of the research include identifying the experience of designing school health-caring environment for children with diabetes mellitus in different countries: identifying conceptual basis of the educational environment of the Russian comprehensive school, focused on the health caring of students with diabetes; designing a content-functional model of the health-caring educational school environment for children with diabetes mellitus. The significance of the obtained results consists in the proposed structural and functional model of the educational health-caring school environment as a pedagogical system including the value-objective, content-informational, activity-practical and outcome-evaluative components. The worked out recommendations focus on the individualized and multidisciplinary approaches in the education of children with diabetes that will prevent the development and progression of diabetes mellitus; on the creation of the health-caring environment through the definition and actualization of health-caring functions, modernization of the content and technologies of the educational school process

Pedagogical conditions for formation of personal professional qualities in students-future math teachers

© 2015, Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research. All rights reserved. A modern school needs a teacher, who is able to cooperate, with high level of mobility, dynamism, creative talent, with deep professional knowledge, competencies. High level of requirements in professional training of future specialists conditions a large volume of theoretical knowledge, practical knowledge and skills, competencies, which the student shall acquire during his studying in the university. At that, high competitiveness at labor market requires constant professional self-improvement and personal growth. The purpose of investigation is to determine the pedagogical conditions, promoting the successful formation of professionally significant personal qualities in students-future teachers of mathematics. The structure of personal professional qualities of the students presents a complex formation, consisting of three interconnected components: creative; cognitive and emotional-volitional. A system work was carried out on each structural component. The implementation of complex of pedagogical conditions for formation of personal professionally significant qualities in students-future math teachers was executed due to organization of pedagogical work in the universities in different forms: extracurricular activity, specially organized for development of creative projects, the educational process itself. The indicators of the results of executed pedagogical experiment prove, that the specified pedagogical conditions provide the effective formation of personal professionally significant qualities in students-future math teachers. The indicators of formedness of structural components of personal professionally significant qualities (cognitive, creative, emotional-volitional) were higher in experimental group. Positive dynamics in formation of personal professionally significant qualities per each of three components is definitely expressed in experimental group; the degree of reliance is lower in the control group. The results of experiments show, that the pedagogical conditions, which we distinguished in the course of experiment, promote the formation of personal professionally significant qualities in students-future math teachers, and also increase the effectiveness of professional development

Pedagogical potential of discipline logic in the development of student thinking culture

© 2016 Khairullin and Khuziakhmetov.Considering the culture of thinking development in a pedagogical context, it should be noted that during an individual development, a person learning concepts historically shaped by a humanity, does not spontaneously perceive and remember them. Acquisition of knowledge requires any mental activity, corresponding to the content of concepts. The aim of the article is to justify the development of a student thinking culture of a high school in the course of studying humanitarian discipline logic and to identify the main features, criteria and indicators of university students thinking culture development. The leading methods of research are: a) the theoretical analysis of philosophical, psychological and pedagogical literature; b) study; c) synthesis of advanced pedagogical experience, which allowed to substantiate the prognostic value of the pedagogical potential of the discipline logic in the students thinking culture development and an introduction to the student’s curriculum of humanitarian course of logic. The following criteria were identified: motivational-axiological (degree of awareness of the students the value of thinking culture); cognitive (the degree of awareness of operations and methods of thought activity); the operational (the nature of the operations and of intellectual activity techniques acquisition and skills to produce rational actions on their application in the educational and extracurricular cognitive processes) and personal (maturity of a reflective position, the degree of mind efficiency and the ability to solve problems creatively). The following provisions have been proved: methodological basis (it constitutes a dialectical and formal logic, the laws of non-contradiction and of the excluded middle); psychological basis (the definition of leading role of receptive kinds of communicative activity in a thinking culture development in a process of logic teaching); logical basis (adoption of logic as a necessary attribute of social life, which is also a way to communicate between different groups of people)

Dialectics of correlation of the school student personality socialization and individualization in pedagogical theory and practice

© 2016 Khuziakhmetov and Nasibullov.Personality socialization has gained a versatile coverage though it is not sufficiently investigated in the context of radically changing social-economic and political situation in society; this circumstance provides the relevance of the studied problem. The objective of the paper is to substantiate theoretically and prove experimentally an integrative concept of dialectic correlation between socialization and individualization of school student’s personality, creation of an integrative model of socialization and individualization of the learner’s personality, development of social-pedagogical mechanisms of the school student’s personality formation as a result of socialization and individualization interaction in the context of training and education. The leading method to the research of this problem is the dialectic research method of development of society and the human allowing to reveal the following objective natural tendencies influencing relations between socialization and individualization of the school student personality: acceleration of reorientation of society to human’s goals; integration of social values; development of self-organization as a priority of social life; acceleration of interaction and mutual enrichment of national cultures; dynamic nature of social development; accelerating moving to human and society systemic goals, etc. Research resulted in identification of processes involved in personality developments; they are presented by analysis of personality problem, ways of its development and education. The paper covers the personality structure, periodization of personality development in ontogenesis and stages of its formation at school age, internal dynamics of personality development and establishing of its individuality. Materials from the papers can be useful to pedagogues, teachers and researchers studying issues of training and education