Criteria-evaluation apparatus of bachelors’ professional and legal competence development

The paper raises a question of assessing professional and legal competence of bachelors majoring in social work at university. Professional and legal competence is a professional property of a graduate in the field of social work, which can effectively solve professional problems in the field of legal regulation of social protection of the population. Attention is paid to the relevance of this professional quality among specialists for modern Russia. The instrument of its evaluation is the criteria-evaluation apparatus, including motivational criterion (indicators: educational, professional motives, interest in law); content-cognitive criterion (indicators: knowledge of the theory of states and law, main branches of Russian law, knowledge of legal acts in the field of regulation of social protection of the population); creative activity criterion (indicators: ability to apply skills and abilities for solving professional and legal problems, sequence of tasks, knowledge of methods of search, analysis and application of normative legal acts in the field of social protection of the population); regulatory and reflexive criteria (indicators: stability in behavior, self-assessment of cognitive activity and sequence of tasks). The paper contains a brief review of research on the development of criteria and indicators for assessing various pedagogical phenomena. The author focuses on the systematic approach as a methodological basis for the analysis of the criteria-evaluation apparatus, which proposes to be considered as an integrative integrity, including the purpose, object, subjects, subject, content and result. Criteria-evaluation apparatus of bachelors’ professional and legal competence development can be used in the system of advanced training of specialists in social work.