Verification and evaluation of professional competence development: problems and ways of their solving (on the material of the discipline/module «Methods of Teaching Biology»)

The following paper considers one of the key issues related to prospective bachelor’s professional competencies development on the example of «Methods of Biology Teaching». The paper presents a list of professional competencies developed by means of the discipline. The component composition of each of them is presented. The paper describes development procedures and technologies of professional competences components check - knowledge, abilities and possession. The author gives examples of each task. It is established that the least difficulties are associated with verifying competencies activity component development. The authors reveal criteria of students’ activity estimation within each of the designated procedures. The authors give criteria for the evaluation testing, exploratory abstract works, creative jobs, and multimedia presentations. The difficulties faced by teachers in the implementation of this work are shown. The main problem of the final forms control criterion evaluation is the disclosure of main knowledge component of the competence of the discipline. The presented materials can be used by university teachers, teaching the course «Methods of Biology Teaching».