Conducting a demonstration exam at the Omsk College of Railway Transport

The relevance of the article is determined by the radical changes that are currently taking place in the entire system of secondary vocational education. Increasing the emphasis on the practical training of students, increasing the volume of educational and industrial practices with the mandatory implementation of the envisaged work at real production facilities, postponing the beginning of the formation of professional competencies of students for the period of studying general educational disciplines by conducting binary classes, joint work the development of materials for classes by teachers of general education disciplines and teachers of professional modules of the educational program of secondary vocational education, the maximum approximation of the content of the intermediate certification of students to their future profession and, finally, the conduct of the state final certification in the form of a demonstration exam — all these innovations require new approaches to the educational process from teachers, the introduction of changes in the existing order, the use of new forms and methods of conducting classes and close interaction with enterprises of the industry.

The article presents and analyzes the experience of conducting a demonstration exam in the Omsk Technical School of Railway Transport — a structural unit of secondary vocational education of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education of Omsk State Transport University. The features of the organization of the demonstration exam, the results achieved by students of the three specialties in which it was conducted are considered, the important role of practical training of students and the role of Russian Railways in organizing and conducting the demonstration exam are noted.

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