QUALIMETRY AS THE ESSENTIAL PART OF SELF-EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY OF THE STUDENTS

The article discusses the innovative approach to the qualimetry organization within the process of self-educational activity of the students on the basis of the matrix model of cognitive activity that allows considering the learning of educational materials as a "movement" through the elements of the matrix. Using the approach as a system-forming factor it is possible to structure the educational material into educational elements according to the difficulty levels, to organize controlled self-educational activity and qualimetry of the students.

The usefulness of this work is in the implementation of the described scientific concepts in the educational process with the help of study guides consisting of four modules, each of which has a different difficulty level. The first module contains the simplest tasks of the first difficulty level; the second contains the problems of the second difficulty level, etc. For the purpose of effective development of knowledge systemacity of the students the authors offer to start the acquisition of the educational material with the elementary tasks solving and to move gradually to the most difficult task of the fourth level. The first module containing, as a rule, the educational tasks concerning the main definitions and concepts is the most comprehensive. It is impossible to move on not being able to solve the tasks of the first difficulty level.

Using the proposed study guides a student has the ability to organize his self-educational activity whenever convenient to him and at his own pace, carry out self-control and determine the level of his knowledge.

The proposed technology of qualimetry organization has been tested in two technical colleges: Samara State University of Railway Engineering and Samara State Technical University. Pedagogical experiment was carried out on the first course year of full-time, part-time and distance education during the study of higher mathematics as a part of the classwork and extracurricular self-educational activity and showed the tendency to improvement of the results of learning and the formation of competences.