ANALYSIS OF THE ASSOCIATIVE SERIES IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF STUDENTS'' INFORMATION COMPETENCE
The paper describes the methods and results of surveys conducted with first-year students of the Faculty of History and Legal Education Volgograd State Pedagogical University in 2015 and 2016. The aim of the polls was to determine the structure and orientation of information competence of students. We have analyzed the associative series on the word-stimulus «Computer», «Computer», and «Internet». In addition to the establishment of frequency of associations' occurrence in the array of responses, we also applied our method of calculating the indicators of significance of the associations. The study was concluded that the method is effective. The study results suggest that the initial state of the information competence of students can be described as spontaneous, bearing mainly recreational and social nature, not having a professional orientation.