Author 1:
Name & Surname: Avdeev P. B.
Company: Transbaikal State University (Chita, Russia)
Work Position: Dean of Mining Faculty
Scientific Degree: Doctor of Engineering Sciences
Contacts: e-mail: chita-apb@yandex.ru

Author 2:
Name & Surname: Nikitina L. G.
Company: Transbaikal State University (Chita, Russia)
Work Position: Deputy Dean of Mining Faculty
Scientific Degree: Candidate of Engineering Sciences

Author 3:
Name & Surname: Starostina S. E.
Company: Transbaikal State University (Chita, Russia)
Work Position: Vice-Principal
Scientific Degree: Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences

Author 4:
Name & Surname: Dugarova D. Ts.
Company: Transbaikal State University (Chita, Russia)
Work Position: Professor
Scientific Degree: Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences

From the analysis of the current educational activities, it is concluded that the higher education institutions lack the appropriate assessment system for expert knowledge, although commercial plants and nonprofit associations have accumulated sufficient experience that is expedient to transfer in the sphere of education. Out of the appraisal methods for a scope of skills, which exist on the market and are analyzed in the article, the educational practice only uses the casemethod and the method of subject (situation) problems. It is required to introduce other estimating methods in educational activities. The article describes one of such methods — assessment-center method — that is intensively introduced at large organizations in Russia. The authors discuss the features of the assessment-center method, directly associated with professional occupation, the assessment criteria defined per every skill and the experience gained by the Mining Faculty of the Transbaikal State University in the use of the innovation technology of the assessment-center method. Based on the use of the innovative methods and technologies of the assessment-center in educational activities of the Mining Faculty, the main requirements have been imposed on the assessment-center method in order to ensure high-quality assessment; it is highlighted in the article that the use of the offered method establishes back communication between a university and the labor market. It has been justified that the innovative methods and techniques developed by the labor market for estimation of educational training performance enables readjustment of the control over planning and implementation of the main professional education programs toward elaboration of a scope of functions and skills.
The research has been performed in the framework of the governmental assignment in the sphere of scientific work of the RF Ministry of Education, Project No. 27.2479.2014K, entitled “Control of Development of Modular Professional Education Programs for Leading Industries in the Transbaikalia Economics Based on the Government and Private Business Partnership”.

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