Methods and Means of Evaluation and Development for Prospective Students’ Spatial Awareness

Abstract

The issue of choosing the field of study and specialty becomes especially relevant at the stage of admission to a higher educational institution. This work is dedicated to the means of decision support system for the prospect students who cannot decide on their own what they want to do in the future. At the same time, an innovative approach is considered for evaluation and development of spatial awareness of the students entering the educational establishments specializing in the construction. The focus is on researching methods based on mobile gaming applications and can be used in decision support systems. Modern computer technologies allow not only to evaluate the results of educational games, but also to record the characteristics of the personality that appear during the game and reflect the degree of the ability to study in the appropriate field. The analysis of modern mobile applications, which allows to assess the abilities of prospective students, which are necessary for successful training in the specialty. Because of the analysis, there were selected mobile applications that are expedient to use in intelligent decision support systems and to assess and develop spatial awareness. There was formed a set of criteria for evaluating factors reflecting the level of the prospective student’s spatial awareness. There was proposed an approach to the development of an intellectual system for evaluating the professional abilities of the students entering the educational establishments specializing in building.