Information influence on the formation of social competence in higher education students

The article reveals the content of social competence and the role of information in forming social competence among higher education students. Methodological approaches to conducting the study involve establishing worldview positions, general pedagogical patterns of information influence on the formation of social competence of higher education students, and identifying their impact on the results obtained. An experimental study was conducted to assess the optimality of the process of information influence on the formation of social competence of higher education students, the result of which is the integrative quality of the personality-social competence. The conducted cross-section of the levels of formation of social competence of respondents after the completion of the formative experiment showed significantly greater positive changes in the formation of social competence of higher education students in the EG through information influence. In the conclusions, we noted that we experimentally verified the effectiveness of the proposed method of using information technologies in the formation of social competence and monitored the dynamics of the growth of the levels of formation of social competence of students.