CHARACTERISTICS OF PROFICIENCY LEVELS OF THE FUTURE DRESS CUTTERS AT THE CLOTHING MANUFACTURE

Under conditions of the modern market, the demands to the sewing enterprises are made in terms of acceleration of production rates, high dynamics of changing clothing models, extending of the products assortment, shortening of the time allotted to the development of new models of clothing. The growth of project scope under conditions of frequent removability of models especially sharply sets the task of reducing the timing and improving the quality of the design process. One of them is the complex integration and automation of processes in the field of automated design. Therefore, today there is an urgent need for the training of future skilled workers of the garment industry using computer technologies in vocational (professional) education institutions. The analysis of recent researches and publications makes it possible to state that the problem connected with the training of skilled workers of clothing manufacture using computer technologies has not been elaborated enough. The purpose of the article is to characterize the preparedness (proficiency) level of future dress cutters within clothing manufacture using computer technologies. In the structure of the future dress cutters intending to work for clothing manufacture (using computer technologies), we identified the following components: motivational-reflexive, systemic-cognitive and operation- and activity-centred. The analysis of the studied problem enabled us to note that proficiency can be estimated by means of these criteria: “instructive-assessing”, “informative and substantive”, “technologically procedural”. On the basis of the analyzed scientific psychological and pedagogical literature we determined and characterized the proficiency level of the future dress cutters who intend to work for clothing manufacture using computer technologies: elementary, moderate, optimum. The aim of the experimental research work was to conduct a diagnosis on determining the proficiency levels of the future dress cutters using computer technologies. For this purpose, 206 students were involved. The experimental group included 104 students, the control group ‒ 102 students. Based on the results of the diagnosis aimed at determining the proficiency levels of the future dress cutters by using computer technologies, we arrived at the conclusion that most students had moderate and elementary proficiency levels. The perspective direction of our further researches is to provide the appropriate pedagogical conditions in the institution of vocational (professional) education, which will depend on increasing the proficiency level of the future dress cutters by using computer technologies.