DOI: 10.25136/2409-8736.2018.4.27930

Abstract: The object of this research is the process of teaching mathematics to the economists and engineers. The subject of this research is the formation of skills for comprehensive and multilateral assessment of adequacy of the phenomena under consideration in the process of teaching mathematics to the economists and engineers. The goal of this work lies in structuring the model of multilateral assessment of mathematical activity (its objectives, methods, and results) and the application of mathematics as the component of economic and engineering education. The authors suggest the multi-criteria approach towards assessing the indicated phenomena on the basis of the original theory of modelling and theory of adequacy. The estimation of quality of the model in the theory of adequacy is defined via comparing the assessable model with the stated reference model. Research methodology includes the theoretical analysis of the modern mathematical education, theory of modelling, competence and activity approaches. In Y. B. Melnikov’s theory of modelling, the estimation of adequacy of the model is viewed as a result of comparison of the assessable and reference models. Evaluation of adequacy is viewed as a function, which arguments are the assessable and reference models. This allowed acquiring new scientific results: formalization of a specific attribute of adequacy can begin either with the structuring of reference model (with further concretization of the corresponding functions), or with the formation of the comparison method (with further determination of referenced model and formalization of the corresponding function).

DOI: 10.25136/2409-8736.2017.4.24624

Abstract: The object of this research is an important and relevant question of modern education – the realization of educational activity with application of the information and communication technologies. The subject is the assessment of the quality of math classes with application of the information and communication technologies. Special attention is given to the development of mechanism for creating the system of models considered as exemplary for the math class (content area, presentation style, etc.). The article describes (from various perspectives) the criteria for the system of exemplary models that allow assessing the quality of the content of math class. Methodology of the research is based on the modelling theory. The following conclusions were made: 1) the content of math class, developed with implementation of the formalized system of exemplary model, produces the more extensive pedagogical effect that the content selected by certain private methods; 2) the described system of exemplary models can be used not only as an apparatus for assessing the quality of the existing mathematical content, but also as instrument of projecting the new math disciplines; 3) the suggested approach can be applied to the assessment of quality not only of the mathematical educational content, but also other areas of education. Unlike the existing studies on the questions of application of the information and communication technologies in math education, the accent is made not on the quality of content solution, but rather the quality of the content of math classes. The proposed approach allows harmoniously combine the unification and diversification of presentation of the educational discipline, as well as ensure to the student a possibility of structuring of an individual educational trajectory.