Varava I. Formation of future software engineering technicians’ readiness for professional activities

Thesis for a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Speciality 015 – Professional Education (by specializations) in Knowledge Area 01 – Education/Pedagogy. – National Aviation University, Kyiv, 2021. The thesis suggests a solution to the urgent scientific and pedagogical problem of forming future software engineering technicians’ readiness for their professional activities. There is a new approach to solving a current scientific problem of theoretical substantiation and experimental verification of ways to improve future software engineering technicians’ readiness for professional activities. The research aim consists in theoretical substantiation and development of the model of forming future software engineering technicians’ readiness for professional activities and its experimental verification. To achieve the set aim, a comprehensive analysis of scientific and pedagogical sources is performed and research areas to identify the problem of forming future software engineering technicians’ readiness for professional development are detected. The content and structural elements of future software engineering technicians’ readiness for professional activities are disclosed and specified. Pedagogical conditions of forming future software engineering technicians’ readiness for professional activities are revealed and substantiated. Criteria and indicators of future software engineering technicians’ readiness for professional activities are identified, its levels are characterized. The structural and functional model of forming future software engineering technicians’ readiness for professional activities is developed and substantiated, its efficiency is verified. The scientific novelty of the research results implies the following:  for the first time: the author's definition of the key concept of the study "future software engineering technicians’ readiness for professional activities" is formulated, which is interpreted as an integrative characteristic of a specialist (future specialist) that encompasses goals, motivation, knowledge, a set of professional and general competencies (skills, abilities and experience) in the field of algorithmization and programming and specific personal qualities, which ensure achievement of competitive results when performing professional activities; pedagogical conditions for forming future software engineering technicians’ readiness for professional activities are determined and substantiated considering contemporary requirements to the educational process; structural and functional model for forming future software engineering technicians’ readiness for professional activities was developed and adapted for the educational process at colleges;  the essence, general structure and criteria of future software technicians’ readiness for professional activities are specified considering specific features of training future software engineering technicians at colleges;  the content, forms and methods of forming future software engineering technicians’ readiness for professional activities are further elaborated.