ASSESSMENT TOOLS FOR UNDERGRADUATES LEGAL COMPETENCES

The article covers the issue of switching to federal state educational standards of higher education and the development of basic educational programs according to the standards. It sets in a modern way the task of the training results assessment on the base of competence-based approach. The article tells about assessment tools which are the main instruments for training process control and acquisition of competences in the context of new technologies spreading. The assessment of legal competences which orient students socially and professionally, including those who are trained in non-law specialties, is based on the complex of modern educational technologies and provides an application of various tools of check. While evaluating, it is necessary to take into consideration the specific features of the basic educational programs of bachelors training. It is caused by the fact that the federal state educational standards on the most major directions of bachelors training provide discipline "Jurisprudence" as obligatory. However, some non-law educational program include more differentiated list of law disciplines with a wider range of competences. In particular, it belongs to the educational programs "Document science and archival science" which includes such disciplines as "Constitutional law", "Labor law", "Information law", "Archival law", "Civil law". The article gives the detailed list of competences and the assessment tools, allowing the teachers to combine in his activity both traditional and new methods of assessment of students work. The improvement of knowledge of bachelors of law disciplines depends on the efficiency of their use by the teachers.