Vol 16, No 1 (2019)

The article is devoted to one of the priorities of higher educational institutions, which is the Institute of magistracy. The purpose of the article is to consider the specifics of the methodology of creating a master's course in the conditions of digital economy formation in the Russian Federation. Adaptation of master's programs to professional activity enables the sphere of science and education to respond quickly to the needs of industry and economy, in addition, the Institute of master's degree determines the possibilities of higher education institution in the field of training of highly qualified specialists in interdisciplinary fields. The basis of the presented research concerning the technology of creating a master's program training course in the digital economy are the theory of knowledge and activity, the theory of social and social conditionality of education, modern didactic theories and learning technologies, the methodology of teaching and learning activities, the methodology of developing a training course using electronic and computer technologies. The criteria of the content of the training course of the master's program are defined. The forms of the transmitted knowledge are offered and their application in the conditions of digitalization in education is proved. From the point of view of the aspect of Informatization and transparency in the control system of assimilation of transmitted knowledge in the magistracy justified such forms of control as the system of testing and implementation of undergraduates research work. One of the mandatory conditions for the creation of a master's degree course is the use of digital simulators, not tied to one workplace and unlimited information resources in order to ensure the possibility of training at any time convenient for the student and, in order to create conditions for continuous individual designed education.

The article deals with specific issues relating to the implementation of one of the priority directions of state policy of Russia is to work with gifted young people. The highly structured system of activities helped identify and develop gifted young people in science, engineering and technology and innovation development of the Samara region and allowed to define tasks and directions of the contests of students research projects in the competition "Vzlet".The article analyzes the results of the regional research competition held for the past 3 years in the Samara region for gifted secondary school students. The key quantitative indicators which may lead to further qualitative analysis were presented, specifically, the total number of participants, the number of submitted projects in different research areas, project advisors, participating educational organizations, and winning projects. In addition, the rates of those who started the competition and those who successfully completed it were analyzed. The articles offers conclusions and discusses future directions for the competition.

The article is devoted to solving the problem of improving the quality of higher education and enabling students to make maximum use of their intellectual and creative potential for professional development in the process of independent work.The analysis of the educational process organization is carried out and the problem moments of realization of the principles of individualization and developing training are revealed. The necessity of development of creativity as a key characteristic of a competitive specialist is substantiated, the main approaches to its definition and development are investigated. The mechanism of formation of creativity of students in the process of independent work has been developed in consideration of the works of D. B. Bogoyavlenskaya, and N. F. Vishnjakovoj, T. A. Barysheva.The research was based on the generalization and development in the context of digital professional education of the experience of organization of independent work and creative self-development of students of Tambov state technical University. The mathematical modeling of the process of management of professional development of students was carried out.According to the results of the study, the key indicators characterizing the current level of competence formation are formulated, and the conceptual provisions of individualization of training within the framework of organized independent work of students on the basis of the principles of developing training are developed. Formalization, mathematical modeling is carried out and methodology of design of adaptive information system of management of professional formation of the student in the course of independent work is proved. The task of optimization of sustainable work is set and several variants of the criterion of optimization are offered, allowing to provide the maximum satisfaction of both the employers ' society and the individual in obtaining high-quality competitive technical education.The developed approaches to the formalization of the processes of training organization and mathematical modeling of the process of professional formation, to the determination of the complexity of tasks and improvement of the current abilities of the student through the transition from the development zone to the zones of near and subsequent development are of significant theoretical and practical importance for improving the quality of the higher education system.

In work the analysis of the "Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable" test is carried out. A main objective - identification of possible shortcomings of dough and definition of ways of their elimination. As material results of the testing held at petrotechnological faculty of SAMGTU served. Research of dough was carried out by means of the modern theory of testing (IRT). Thus two models were used: Russia and two-parametrical model of Birnbaum. After transition to a uniform interval scale of logits the combined histograms of levels of knowledge and difficulty of tasks were constructed. According to model Russia characteristic curve dependences of probability of the correct answers on the level of knowledge at the fixed difficulty are received. For check of compliance of empirical data of model Russia schedules of all tasks of dough are submitted. The differentiating ability of a task was estimated by means of two-parametrical model of Birnbaum. Characteristic curves, the corresponding probabilities of the correct answers depending on the level of knowledge at the fixed difficulty are constructed and taking into account a task diskriminativnost. Information functions of tasks and all dough according to model Russia and two-parametrical model of Birnbaum are found. As a result it appeared that requirements imposed to qualitative dough such, as are fulfilled: the look close to normal for histograms of levels of knowledge and difficulty of tasks, and also a certain type of information functions. Besides more than a half of tasks have admissible values of coefficients of a diskriminativnost. As for other tasks, the carried-out analysis showed what need to be overworked what to remove and what tasks should be added to achieve more uniform distribution them on difficulty. The offered transformations of dough will allow to make it more adapted tool for measurement of knowledge.

The relevance of the article is due to the search for effective methods of teaching a foreign language at a non-linguistic university. Work in small groups is currently not very widely accepted in the practice of teaching a foreign language both at school and at the university. However, it has enormous potential not only for developing communicative competences, but also for developing creativity and critical thinking, as well as developing teamwork skills, which is of great importance for future professional life of young specialists. The purpose of the article is to analyze pros and cons of work in small groups, justify the use of group work at a foreign language lesson as one of the effective methods, and also consider typical tasks applied in group work. The article substantiates the effectiveness of this method and offers specific types of tasks which can be used in work on different types of language activity: speaking, writing, listening, reading. The author gives examples of using such method of work in small groups in the framework of the discipline "Foreign Language" in an English class of first-year students, majoring in "Construction". The results of the work led to conclusions proving the effectiveness of using such a method, which made learning more effective, developed the creative activity of students and demonstrated an individual approach in teaching. The method of work in small groups is applicable at English lessons for other specialities too.