Diagnostics of the formation of future economists praxiological skills

The whole complex ofskills, which defines the successful activity in any sphere of public life, is comprehended as praxiological skills. It is necessary to revealand characterize criteria and qualitative levels of praxiological skills expression in order to work out the diagnostics of forming futureeconomists praxiological skills. On the basis of the analysis of criteria characteristics of forming various skills groups for founding thewhole conception of efficiency of the process of formation of future economists praxiological skills and of the estimation of the formationlevel of the given skills group one can distinguish cognitive, axiological, organizational and creative criteria as fundamental ones.The distinguished criteria are characterized by the content and the quality of implemented operations, which represent the foundation offuture economists praxiological skills and while the process forming they are represented as the components of the given complex ofskills. In order to systematize criteria characteristics in the context of their manifestation, it is necessary to define precisely what theyare. The cognitive criterion is characterized by the process of learning of the main and special methods and operations of economic taskssolution; also by the knowledge of the main and special operations of economic tasks solution; by the realization of the choice action inthe solution of concrete economic tasks. The axiological criterion is characterized by the value attitude to the process of learning of themain and special economic methods and operations; also by the value attitude to the process of acquiring economic knowledge as theprofessional one; by the value attitude to mastering and choice of economic operations on the basis of their professional importance. Theorganizational criterion is characterized by manifestation of organizational qualities in the process of learning the experience of economicactivity; also by applying organizational methods to economic tasks solution; by manifestation of organizational qualities in economictasks solution. The creative criterion is characterized by acquiring creative methods of economic theory to economic tasks solution;by overcoming professional activity stereotypes in economic tasks solution; by manifestation of creative qualities when solvingnon-typical economic tasks. The levels of praxiological skills forming were singled out according to the four-level structure of skillsacquiring. Thus, by the character of information application activity can be reproductive and productive; each of these kinds of activitycan be performed independently or with some help, with some prompts from without. Teachers explanation, instruction, the referencebook, the students book and any other source of information about the rules of action performance can be such a prompt in the reproductiveactivity, but in the productive activity outside help is the support of the already known similar algorithms and actions methodsand their transforming according to the task in order to get a new algorithm. Also, independent productive activity is characterized bythe elements of researching, educational creativity, independent finding new ways of activity, forming subjectively new knowledge andskills. One can distinguish empirical, reproductive and integrative levels of the formation of future economists praxiological skills.

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