Development of professionally important qualities in the training of IT specialists at the university

The research purpose. Professionally important personal qualities of an IT specialist are valued in the labor market on a par with professional competencies, therefore, in the process of studying at a university, it is important to keep their development in focus. The purpose of the performed research is to substantiate, implement in a digital learning environment, and test in the educational process a technological way of monitoring the development of professionally important qualities of IT students in close connection with the development of their professional competencies. The article presents a detailed analysis of the results of experimental training, which allowed the authors to identify correlation dependencies within the selected set of professionally important qualities and assess the impact of their development level on the results of mastering professional competencies, as well as to track the dynamics of the development of students' personal qualities during the learning process. 

Methods and materials. Based on the analysis of various sources, including the requirements of the labor market, the authors identified and systematized a set of professionally important qualities of an IT graduate that can be developed during the learning process. The architecture of the educational environment and the logical model of the data warehouse are presented, which allow accumulating the results of students' learning and development in a form convenient for analysis. The implementation of monitoring of interrelated processes of competence acquisition and development of professionally important qualities in the presented educational environment  are described. A correlation analysis of learning and development results were performed, which made it possible to identify and evaluate the dependencies between the individual components of the unified IT training process at the university with the use Pearson coefficients.

Results. The article presents an example of the implementation of the proposed method for monitoring the development of professionally important qualities in the bachelor's degree program 09.03.04 “Software Engineering”. As a result of the correlation analysis of the outcome of experimental training, the basic set of professionally important qualities of an IT graduate was clarified, its non-redundancy and the close connection of each of the identified qualities with professional competencies were proved (using the example of one of the general professional competencies, for which three specialized disciplines are responsible). The experiment also revealed a positive trend in the development of professionally important qualities in the learning process, however, it should be noted that this process is slow and uneven.

Conclusion. The results of the study confirm the relevance of the statement about the importance of professionally important qualities in the competence model of an IT graduate. The proposed basic set of personal qualities and a way to monitor their development can be extended to various areas of training for IT specialists. The continuation of this research has good prospects for organizing the process of purposeful development of professionally important qualities in the learning process, as well as for building individual educational trajectories that take into account personal qualities of a particular student. In general, this will lead to an increase in the effectiveness of the educational process and have a positive impact on the quality of training of IT specialists at the university.

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