THE EDUCATIONAL POTENTIAL OF THE FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

The article proposes to expand the research agenda of formative assessment as a method not only for evaluating educational achievements, but also for educating the student’s personality. The relevance of the research is determined by the peculiarities of modern destructured social reality and the challenges of transformation of the Russian education system. Independence is considered as one of the significant personal and professionally important qualities of graduates of the main educational programs of both humanitarian and technical areas of training and specialties of the university. In this context, the need to introduce new or improve traditional means and methods of an educational nature is becoming more acute. The article discusses the main functions and definition of formative assessment. Special attention is paid to its educational potential and its influence on the development of the personality of the university student. The empirical research is aimed at studying the basic ideas of foreign language learners in a non-linguistic university about the importance of formative assessment for personal development and professional formation. The revealed subjective assessments of the significance of the proposed method emphasize the importance of using the educational potential of formative assessment in the educational process not only in educational institutions of general education in the Russian Federation, but also in higher education.The results of the pilot study may be in demand for the development of author’s methods of educating the student’s personality. The data obtained can be useful for teachers in organizing effective interaction with students and supporting their educational trajectory. The prospects for further research are related to the study of the development of the levels of formation of personally and professionally significant qualities of university students (independence, responsibility) through formative assessment.