DIGITAL SKILLS OF ECONOMIC STUDENTS IN RUSSIA

A modern educated specialist has an automated workstation, which implies that he knows advanced information technologies and the ability to use information systems. These tools are designed to generate information based on which a specialist makes a production decision, including managerial decisions. The summarizing above indicates the importance of the formation of modern digital competencies among university graduates. The purpose of this study is to study the level of digital skills among students of economic direction in dynamics - after studying computer science at school and after studying the disciplines of an information course at the university. According to the Federal State Educational Standard, subject competencies formed by Computer science have a fairly general sound and cover a wide range of skills. Therefore, for the study, information search skills, organization, assessment, and communication network skills were selected. Second-year students of the Chelyabinsk State University, who were trained in Computer science at the university, were selected as the audience. The study used testing, task execution, statistical data processing, and analysis. The results showed that the level of digital skills is quite different. Some of the skills are well mastered at school, for the formation of most of the other skills, it is necessary to identify the reasons for their insufficient development, and their elimination requires the inclusion of particular tasks in the course of Computer science that contribute to the development of digital skills. (C) 2021 Published by European Publisher.