PROBLEMS OF THE ASSESSMENT OF COMMON CULTURAL COMPETENCES OF STUDENTS OF TECHNICAL COLLEGES
In the new federal education standards of higher education identified only two types of competencies: general cultural and professional. The work is devoted toassessing general cultural competence of students of technical universities. Itdefines the general cultural competence of an active human activity, its ability tonavigate the various areas of social and profes-sional life. Currently, the vastmajority of papers on this topic devoted to the problem of formation of overall cultural competence, rather than evaluating it. The paper discusses existing methods and approaches, it is proposed to assess overall cultural competencebased on the methods of psychological testing and expert evaluation. A prototype information system to assess the competence of students of technicalhigh schools, on the basis of which can be assessed not only professional, but also general cultural competence.