Relationship Between Development And Assessment Of Students' Competences

Modern approaches to teaching and assessing learning outcomes in the context of competence-based education encourage students to acquire maximum knowledge, skills and abilities. They are based on the idea of organizing the educational process geared to train students towards mastering a set of competences that develop a future specialist in demand on the labor market. The paper discusses the relationship between learning and assessment procedures based on the transparency of assessment criteria and clearly defined expectations. It reports a number of teaching and assessment methods for some basic biomedical and clinical disciplines within specialist program implemented at the Medical Institute of Chechen State University. The methods boost academic performance of university students, encouraging them to participate in active mental and practical activities. Based on the analysis of current regulations in the field of higher education, teaching and learning materials designed to improve educational efficiency were correlated. Assessment procedures based on innovative methods should ultimately be aimed at meeting the requirements of federal state educational standards, focused on learning outcomes conceived as competences shaped rather than on teaching practices. After all, new educational standards are based on fundamentally new approaches that imply moving away from a qualification image to a competence image of the graduate. The authors emphasize the need to transform the main functions of higher education from mastering the material into new achievements in education inspired by the practical experience at the Medical Institute of Chechen State University.