THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF THE PROBLEM OF QUALITY OF CHEMICAL TRAINING OF TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

The paper covers the theoretical aspects of the problem of quality of chemical training of the technical university students. The study showed that the successful activity of a specialist in any field will considerably depend on the quality of chemical training. However, today schools cut the time for the study of chemistry in the upper secondary school up to one hour per week, and, as a rule, in technical colleges, chemistry is studied as a general subject for one semester at the first years of study. Therefore, in such circumstances, the issue of practical organization of scientifically proved and objective system of assessment of chemical training of future specialists is relevant for successful learning of chemistry. The authors give their definition of “the quality of chemical training” and describe its content through the priority spheres of human personality – cognitive, emotional-motivational and activity spheres. Such approach allows following the level of quality assurance of subject training in higher school from the perspective of the “knowledge – feeling – behavior” triad. The authors analyzed various directions of development of the system of training quality indicators and present the authors approach focused on the comparison with the learning results standard. The criteria basis of this approach is the development of criteria for the full mastering of knowledge and skills through the description of this standard. The authors made the conclusion that it is necessary to use various forms of control, including the attainment tests, to improve the assessment of quality of chemical training of the students.