CRITERIA AND INDICATORS FOR EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CREATIVE TEACHING METHODS FOR TECHNICAL SPECIALTY STUDENTS

Abstract: The present day demands continuous development of new objects of technology and engineering, and creative self-realization from future engineers. Creative teaching methods in technical disciplines are capable of ensuring this. The quality of forming creative-level knowledge in technical disciplines among future specialists will increase if the methodological system is based on modeling the development of technical disciplines, and the content of teaching technical disciplines is presented in two parts – basic and creative, where the latter should be created by students independently during the learning process using methods and tools for managing students' creative educational and cognitive activity. The necessity of introducing specially organized pedagogical influence within the educational process requires the development of a system of criteria and indicators for identifying the quantitative and qualitative level of the pedagogical phenomenon's formation. The article proposes the developed content, criteria, and indicators for evaluating the effectiveness of the teaching methodology for students in technical disciplines, which allow future engineers to assess the level of formation of professional knowledge and skills, creativity, and professionally important qualities. The assessment of the formation of professional knowledge is carried out in accordance with the acquaintanceorienting, conceptual-analytical, and productive-synthetic (creative) levels. Creativity is proposed to be evaluated using four factors of divergent thinking: fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration. As indicators of the formation of professionally important qualities of future engineers, it is proposed to assess the formation of interest and activity in professional activity, risk-taking in future professional activity, and the level of professional independence through questionnaires. All proposed criteria and indicators are thoroughly substantiated, and a methodology for evaluating each indicator is proposed.