Критерії та рівні сформованості методологічної компетентності старшокласників з біології

Abstract

Abstract. Formation of methodological competence of students is one of the goals of teaching biology at high school in accordance with implementing reforms in the system of general secondary education in the year 2018/2019. Currently, the important issue is the development of tools for assessment of its formation. The purpose of the article is the description of the author’s developed criteria and formation of levels of methodological competence in biology among senior pupils. The article contains: author's definition of "methodological competence", author's approach to the description of criteria and levels of formation of levels of methodological competence in biology among senior pupils. The author of the article bases himself on his developed concept and method of formation of a knowledge system in biology among senior pupils, the systematic factor of which is methodological knowledge. The author emphasizes that methodological knowledge is the central element of the system of knowledge of senior pupils and the effective mean of fundamentalization of the content of modern biological education at high school and effective way of strengthening of axiological and cultural orientation of biological educational content at a New Ukrainian school. The criterial apparatus includes the knowledge of senior pupil’s the types of knowledge, their logical subordination, possession of basic methods of biological research, possession of historical and biological knowledge, understanding of the socio-historical background of the development of the biological knowledge The directions of further researches is development of theoretically grounded methods of forming components of methodological competence in biology in accordance with the requirements of state standards and programs of the educational subject "Biology and Ecology" at a New Ukrainian school.