METHODOLOGY OF SYSTEM-THINKING APPROACH IN EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINATION

Abstract

The article presents the methodology of system-thinking approach in psychological examination of education. The category of “expert activity” has been clarified and the technological cycle of expert research has been characterized with appropriate stages within the outlined methodological approach.

The purpose of the article is to reveal the content, technological features and to distinguish the stages of psychological examination of education with appropriate procedures on the basis of system-thinking approach.

Research methods – methods of logical and psychological analysis, theoretical modeling and scientific interpretation.

Results. The article reveals the specifics of the psychological examination of education, taking into account the basic provisions of the system-thinking approach. Expertise technology in this approach is understood as system-thinking and the basis for such a conclusion is the idea of the expertise as a specific type of research activity of a scientific nature, which requires a special organization of thinking. This conceptual approach is shown to be subject to productive activity, that is, to prove that the activity is constructed in such a way that the resulting typical product has a higher quality with special properties and greater volume; activities that have provided higher results than the relevant regulatory and procedural standards; mechanisms of reflexive self-regulation that underpin the improvement of activity. The analysis made in the course of the research made it possible to distinguish within the proposed methodological approach a technological cycle of expert research, which involves the passage of the following stages: goal setting, phenomenological reconstruction, conceptualization, juxtaposition, reflexive, evaluation, correction and design. The principles of expert activity are analyzed, namely: the principle of a systematic approach, the principle of level analysis, the principle of interdisciplinary, the principle of practically orientation.

Conclusions. The methodology of the system-thinking approach makes it possible to organize research and coordinate the achievement of the set goal with a variety of scientific and psychological material. According to the principles of organization of expert activity, a method for determining the magnitude of the intensity of manifestation of the properties of a social object is used to evaluate its qualitative characteristics, it means that a quantitative manifestation of a qualitative assessment is obtained, which is important for determining the approaches to the organization of expertise.