3D Assessing Soft Skills in Students

Modern digital technologies are currently considered as technologies that can compensate for disabilities and contribute to educational and professional inclusion. At the same time, a person's success in the profession is determined by the level of development of a number of professional and meta-subject competencies (soft skills) that are in complex interactions. In case of any restrictions on the state of health, person should be able to build his life and professional path taking his/her restrictions into account - to be able to minimize barriers by oneself, apply technical and auxiliary tools, etc., to compensate for the restrictions. We are talking about rehabilitation competencies, which we consider as the basis and conditions for developing soft skills. This determined the relevance of developing the methodological foundations of a database for assessing and accounting for these competencies in the process of professional training at a university. A 3D assessment of the competencies in students with disabilities is developed at Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU) on the basis of many years' experience of working with hearing impaired students: teaching fundamental, socio-humanitarian and rehabilitation disciplines; counselling on issues of socio-psychological and professional adaptation. The main parameters of assessing are super subject competencies: learning skills, social development skills and social interaction skills. Such a voluminous assessment provides a complete picture from the point of view of the manifestation of the totality of these competencies in the professional environment, designates areas that require development and additional measures (educational, rehabilitation). This technology in educational process allows not only to evaluate skills acquired by student, but also to identify specific problems in student while acquiring certain skills (competencies), to draw up a plan to solving them and implement it. The proposed approach can be applied not only for developing a database for assessing competencies in hearing impaired students, but also for all students who need in facilitating adaptation to the university and profession. This is especially true for students with communication problems including foreigners, migrants.