The "soft skills" formation of high school students with different levels of knowledge engineering skills and competence
The article represents the results of theoretical and empirical research of psychological and pedagogical conditions "soft skills" formation among High School students. It was proved "soft skills" are highly demanded with employers and essential professional qualities for representatives of different occupations. The article describes the connection of "soft skills" domain level and student's knowledge engineering characteristics. The system of specialized classes which is oriented to the development of student's "soft skills" is approved in the empirical research. The scientist finds out these educational technologies promote the level of testee's "soft skills" domain such as teamwork experience, self-control, multilevel thought, emotional intellect and rating skills. The research presents that the students with low level of engineering knowledge and skills demonstrate the highest progress in learning such skills. It is noted that the training procedures given in the article aimed at creating conditions for the formation of "soft skills" are a fairly effective tool for their improvement in high school students and that metacognitive characteristics are closely related to the content of "soft skills" and significantly determine the process of their formation in specialized training. However, the authors draw attention to an important limitation of the study: the fact that as a way to measure the "soft skills" used subjective assessments of students themselves. The article comes to the general conclusion that research of psychological and pedagogical conditions of "soft skills" domain should be realized in view of relation between the external educational impact and testee's internal characteristics in their interaction and coaction effect on process of study.