Pedagogical Olympiad as a Tool to Assess Students’ Professional Training Quality

Abstract

This article examines the problem of assessing the quality of the professional training of students who complete higher education courses. The authors analyze the essential characteristics of quality control and assessment of educational processes at a university, as well as criteria, tools, and methods used for assessing the quality of education. The authors believe that the Pedagogical Olympiad is one of the most efficient tools to evaluate the quality of professional training. The article describes practices to evaluate the quality of education among students during the “All-Russian” stage of the Russian Student Olympiad (ARSO) in speech therapy (Saransk, 2015), as well as aspects of content and the procedure to apply this evaluation tool; the results of this evaluation allow the authors to conclude that the quality of professional competence development and personal education of students are assessed qualitatively and quantitatively.