EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES OF INTEGRATIVE LITERATURE COURSE IMPLEMENTATION

The paper contains experimental validation of the effectiveness of an integrative literature course which aim is to form the common cultural competence of students obtaining the secondary vocational education. Nowadays, general cultural competence is the most important professional quality required at any workplace. The integration approach is seen as a way out of the contradictory didactic situation in the formation of this competence among students of secondary vocational institutions. The author emphasizes the importance of application of the integration technology within the competence-based approach in terms of modern educational environments and gives definitions to these concepts. A brief description of the author’s integrative course on the discipline “Literature” is presented, the educational goal of which is to form and improve the general cultural competence. The paper presents a more detailed description of the system used for assessing the level of general cultural competence. This system is built upon the knowledge of the structural components of competence: information-analytical, operational-activity, creative and value-oriented. Each structural component corresponds to several evaluation tools. The author presents the developed system of criteria for the formation of general cultural competence. Each criterion is evaluated on three levels: initial, basic, and advanced. To ensure the reliability of the results obtained through the evaluation, the author considered not only qualitative but also quantitative indicators of the competence development.

The presented evaluation system made it possible to prove experimentally the intensity of the dynamic process revealed by the results of the implementation of an integrative literature course for students of secondary vocational education. The pedagogical experiment carried out by the author confirms the importance and effectiveness of the developed integrative course aimed at forming competence-based educational outcomes in combination with the proposed system for assessing the level of general cultural competence in the modern educational environment.