Review: This article is dedicated to the problems of implementation of competence approach in the Bachelor’s Degree Program in Tourism in the course of studying an academic discipline “Human Being and Their Needs”. The response of tourism industry to the challenges of modernity became the introduction of universal standards in the area of higher education aimed at formation of competences among the future specialist in tourism sphere that would allow tourism agencies to successfully compete on the market of travel services. The article illustrated the creation of academic content of the discipline that corresponds to the modern educational standards. The following conclusions were made: 1) educational strategy is defining for the formation of student’s competence within the framework of the course “Human Being and Their Needs”; 2) a student acquires a unique set of skills related to identification of the needs of “collective subject” as an agent of culture who consumes travel product; 3) globally, the sphere of tourism currently experiences shortage of human resources possessing the knowledge and competences in the area of anthropology of tourism that allows studying the dynamics and structure of modern tourism, which became one of the leading anthropological practices of a person of postindustrial society.

Keywords: anthropology, professional, tourism, tourism anthropology, need, man, competency-based approach, competence, academic discipline, education

Review: The object of this research is the results of experimental use of the test for inventory of the concepts of mathematical analysis (Calculus Concept Inventory, CCI), which is aimed at assessment of the key concepts of mathematical analysis, such as function, limit and derivative. The test was conducted in the period from 2016 to 2020 and involved Bachelor’s degree students of Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation on the discipline “Applied Mathematics and Informatics”. “Mathematical Analysis” is one of the key disciplines in formation of mathematical competencies of students majoring “Applied Mathematics and Informatics”. Test was developed by the leading experts from the United States in the area of mathematics and teaching mathematics in the universities, and was implemented in Russian practice for the first time. For quality assessment of the test was applied Cronbach's alpha coefficient, and the results were evaluated based on the Item Response Theory. Although in universities of the United States the implementation of this test showed relatively low effectiveness, for the students of Financial University the coefficient values were significantly higher and allow making an unequivocal conclusion on the informativeness of results. The article also applies the values of discriminant coefficient. Their fluctuation allows using the test not only for assessing the achievement in learning mathematical analysis of students in groups, but also individual results. The results demonstrate that the traditional approach in teaching the principles of mathematical analysis that is widely recognized in the Russian universities is ineffective, which underlines the need to rearrange the content and methods of teaching mathematical analysis in a university.

Keywords: derivative, function, limit, inventory, basuc concepts, CCI test, item response theory, Rush model, calculus, parameter estimation

Review: The object of this research is the increase in motivation of students towards learning physics as one of the most complex sciences of school curriculum. The subject of this research is the elective course of “Physics Fundamentals of Information Security” developed by the author, based on the cross-disciplinary integration of such disciplines as physics, informatics, and information security. An extensive analysis is conducted on textbooks on physics and scientific methodical sources of literature on information security. Special attention is given to methodological questions of teaching this elective course, structured on application of the method of problem-based learning as an optimal method for search and acquisition of new knowledge and active learning activity. The scientific novelty consists in development of the elective course “Physics Fundamentals of Information Security”, which has applied aim. The laboratory works developed by the author in such way that the students learn the laws of physics in the course of completing the research. They first see “how it works”, and then make conclusions as formulas, after which they solve the theoretical tasks on these topics, understanding entirety of the depth. This course is registered in Rospatent as the database Electronic Educational Resource on the Discipline “Physics Fundamentals of Information Security”. The author pays particular attention to implementation of this course into educational process, as well as describes the methodological system of teaching and the pedagogical experiment that proves the effectiveness of this course.

Keywords: psychological-pedagogical research, elective course, interdisciplinary integration, applied orientation, problem-based learning, methods of teaching physics, teaching methods, Motivation, information security, research monitoring