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The article discusses the issue of developing intercultural competence in the process of teaching a foreign language to engineering students. The intercultural competence is a complex of knowledge, skills and personal characteristics that contribute to the choice of adequate solutions of communicative tasks and effective intercultural interaction. In the course of studying a foreign language, it is necessary for students to learn to perceive certain phenomena inherent for a different culture in comparison with com...

Changes in the society cause changes in the demands on the process and the result of training an engineer. In the beginning of the 20th century a design engineer was needed; the second half of the 20th century called for engineers capable of carrying out a scientific research and applying its results; labor market in the beginning of the 21st century makes a demand on engineers who are both competent in dealing with theoretical and practical tasks that arise from their professional activities and able to work as m...

Adaptive education model as a modern implementation of the well-known pedagogical principle of instruction individualization is becoming increasingly popular. However, effective adaptive learning cannot be effective and functional without adaptive testing. The paper examines the prerequisites for using models of adaptive instruction in general and adaptive testing in particular. The experience of using computer-based adaptive tests, in the context of a group of about fifteen students with different levels of train...