Startup Diagnostics of the Degree of Well-Formedness of Student Design Competence as an Integral Means of Students Plotting Their Own Individual Learning Route

This article seeks to substantiate the need for the prognostic assessment of the degree to
which school students are prepared to master new types of activity, which underlie their design of
an individual learning route at an appropriate senior stage of learning. The authors discuss the
concept of project competence as an integral characteristic of such preparedness. The article
describes the components of school students‟ project competence, characterizes the degrees to
which they may be formed, and brings to light the possibility of diagnosing these components using
specially prepared cases. The authors describe the experience of pilot-testing the methodology,
discuss their findings, and identify major gaps in the project competence of present-day school
students.