Khoroshilova N.V. 1
1 Nizhny Novgorod Linguistics University n. a. N.A Dobrolyubov
Cultural competence presents the integral quality of the personality. It reveals the person common ability and readiness to various activity, makes the personality socially oriented to the independent and successful vital activity. The system assessment study is connected with the unity of its theoretical and technological aspects. The cultural competence assessment is based on the set of pedagogical approaches – normative (requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard), competence, personal, technological. The principles of the cultural competence assessment are as follows: integrity, dynamism, continuity, informativeness, cyclicity, consistency, effectiveness. The main assessment directions present the activity to single out a) competences referring to the human being as a personality, agent of the activity and communication; b) competences referring to the social interaction of the person and social environment; c) competences referring to the person activity. The assessment technology includes a number of components: the goal determined with the help of the set of parameters of the assessed object; the original object (cultural competence), described with the help of a number of certain characteristics; the sequence of assessment operations performance described as a technological chart; assessment means (input, intermediate, output diagnosis); feedback. The author determines three main criteria of the student cultural competence assessment: cognitive, activity, attitude criterion. In the pedagogical science there has been formed a theoretical basis enabling to determine at the content and organizational levels the assessment of the process of the university students cultural formation. The perspectives of the research of the cultural competence assessment are connected with taking into consideration the specific features of the educational process of different profile institutes of higher education and the individual peculiarities of acquiring culture by students.