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Cadets and students were questioned with due regard to technologies, 25 methods. According to each series 5
their individual, group and collective choice to provide units have been chosen, that headed the rating. In this
representative selection and obtain the necessary case weighting has been carried out by frequencies
information. (weights from 1 to 5), which show how many times
Participants. 15 groups of cadets and 20 groups of this or that variant is repeated. That is why calculating
students of the day-time department of National the weighted arithmetic average by each of the chosen
Academy of National Guard of Ukraine (NANGU) competences / technologies / methods all values of the
have taken part in the research. The average amount of weights in the range from 1 to 5 are multiplied by
respondents is 535. frequency of their repetition, the obtained cup product
Organisation of the research. The research was has been summed up, this sum has been divided into
realised in the academic years of 2013-2018 on the the sum of frequencies (15), i.e. the average volume of
basis of NANGU. In particular, the academic years of the total. Rank 1 has been assigned to the highest value
2013-2014 – 3 groups of cadets, 4 groups of students of the weighted arithmetic average of the
(the average amount of 143 people); the academic corresponding competence / technology / method, rank
years of 2014-2015 – 3 groups of cadets, 4 groups of 5 has been assigned to the lowest one.
students (the average amount of 103 people); the The dispersion coefficient of Kendall concordance has
academic years of 2015-2016 – 3 groups of cadets, 4 been applied to determine the level of concordance of
groups of students (the average amount of 105 people); the respondents’ ideas. As there are no connected ranks
the academic years of 2016-2017 – 3 groups of cadets, in the research, the dispersion coefficient of W
4 groups of students (the average amount of 98 concordance has been calculated as ratio of deviation
people); the academic years of 2017-2018 – 3 groups of the sum of ranks in the second degree from the
of cadets, 4 groups of students (the average amount of average sum of ranks in the second degree, multiplied
86 people). The cadets and students were questioned by 12, to the experts quantity m in the second degree,
around the subject “University education” at the fourth multiplied by the spread between the third degree of
year, of different majors, from the Humanities Faculty, the quantity of factors which are ranged, and the
Technical Faculty and the Faculty of Economics and quantity of these factors n.
Management. The obtained value has been estimated in terms of
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Statistical analysis. To obtain the rating assessment of significance with the help of Pirson’s criterion χ by
the collective selection of students and cadets, the multiplying this coefficient W by the quantity of
algorithm of calculating the average values has been experts m and by the quantity of the degrees of
used, in particular the weighted arithmetic average. The clamping (n-1). The calculated value of Pirson’s
weighted arithmetic average has been calculated from criterion has been compared to the table (critical one).
the values of the varying characteristics from 1 to 5 On this basis the conclusion has been made about the
taking into account the weights. Upon that the values significance of the researched coefficient.
of the characteristic are presented in the form of The concordance coefficient and Pirson’s criterion
variation distribution series. The quantity of units in the values are shown in Table 1.
variation series is not the same: 30 competences, 16

Table 1. The concordance coefficient and Pirson’s criterion values.
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Demand type The The calculated The table (critical) value χ
concordance value of Pirson’s for the for the
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coefficient W criterion χ significance level significance level
5% 1%
For demand into competences 0.812 50.02 42.56 49.59
For demand into pedagogic 0.848 33.01 25.00 30.58
technologies
For demand into methods 0.873 43,97 36.42 42.98

In all the cases the calculated value of Pirson’s institution, who were under research, by 39.86%. If the
criterion exceeds the table (critical) values for 5% and quantity of students for this period was twice as fewer,
1% of the significance level. Thus, the calculated then the tendency to decrease the quantity of cadets in
values of the concordance coefficient are accepted as groups for the last year (2017-2018) was ceased, and
significant that proves the concordance of the even had a higher index than for the last three years.
respondents’ ideas. The results are illustrated in Figure 1.
Obtaining the average complex assessment has allowed The demand for forming competences in high school
us to reveal the demand into forming competences / among cadets and students has been studied by
technologies / methods of the student youth for the last methods (Melnyk, 2017), which presuppose individual,
five years. group and collective choice of 5 most important
Results competences from the proposed list (30 general
For five years of research (2013-2018 academic years) competences) (Tuning Association, 2010, р. 63-64).
there has been a tendency to decrease the quantity of These competences had to be ranged according to the
cadets and students in groups of the higher educational level of their significance.

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