2011 Issue №5

This article describes an integrated study into the cognitive-intellectual and cognitive-motor components of students' abilities. The research is aimed at the development and implementation of a principally new technique of complex psychodiagnostics of academic and professional abilities of students of the Life Safety field of study, the mathematical and statistical elaboration of their structure, and the targeted formation of the core components of these abilities in order to develop "human capital" and professional competence in students.

This article deals with the implementation of acmeological approach in the improvement of music teacher professional training from the didactic perspective. The author justifies the logic and acmeological orientation of its stages determined by addressing the methodology of creative work, which serves as the basis for the development and implementation of the technological aspect of a future specialist's professional growth.

On the basis of the analysis of recent foreign research, the author traces theoretical preconditions of on-line learning. The discovery model as well as guided discovery model is considered. Computer-supported collaborative learning is viewed as a synthesis of the following approaches: learner-oriented, constructivist and communicative