Development of soft skills in Computer Science bachelors in the project learning process

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The obtained results show a statistically significant difference in the evaluation of soft skills in students of control and experimental groups for each component, as well as a statistically significant relationship available for groups and stages. Accordingly, the influence of the proposed training technologies on the development of the strategic skills of future information technology specialists has been confirmed.

Conclusions and prospects for further research

In the IT-industry market, the possession of soft skills for IT students is a prerequisite for successful employment. Soft skills are highly important in the context of future work in the IT industry and are classified into 5 groups: management, communication, personal effectiveness, strategic management and information management. For each group indicators are defined, according to which the level of formation of the respective skill in the future IT- specialists was determined according to the developed model of formation of soft skills. Development of “soft skills” in future IT specialists at Stage 1 (communication and management skills), Stage 2 (personal effectiveness skills), Stage 3 (strategic management skills, information management skills, personal effectiveness) using cloud-based tools and a project-based learning methodology makes it possible to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of the proposed methodology. During the pedagogical experiment, the level of personal effectiveness increased by 15.3 %, and communicative skills by 16.7%, management skills have increased by 10.7%, strategic skills by 12.3%, information management skills by 10,2%. Thus, the proposed “soft skills” formation method can be applied to the organization of the educational activities of computer science bachelors.

We see the prospect of further research in the study of the impact of blended learning on the development of soft skills of computer science bachelors.

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