Creative Education
2013. Vol.4, No.8, 503-508
Published Online August 2013 in SciRes (http://www.scirp.org/journal/ce) http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ce.2013.48073
The Problem of Using Competence-Based Approach and
Information Technologies in Formation of Communicative
Competence of the Future Specialists
Madina Murzakhanovna Akeshova1, Kamalbek Meirbekovich Berkimbaev2,
Zhanali Erkinbekovich Daribaev3, Gulmira Pernebekovna Meirbekova3,
Saken Koptleuovich Kurbaniyazov4, Zagipa Kyrgyzbaevna Abdikulova5
1English Philology Department, A. Yasawi International Kazakh-Turkish University, Turkestan,
Republic of Kazakhstan
2General Pedagogy and Ethnopedagogy Department, A. Yasawi International Kazakh-Turkish University,
Turkestan, Republic of Kazakhstan
3Ecology and Chemistry Department, A. Yasawi International Kazakh-Turkish University, Turkestan,
Republic of Kazakhstan
4Geology Department, A. Yasawi International Kazakh-Turkish University, Turkestan, Republic of Kazakhstan
5Natural Science and Energetic Department, A. Yasawi International Kazakh-Turkish University, Turkestan,
Republic of Kazakhstan
Received February 26th, 2013; revised March 26th, 2013; accepted April 8th, 2013
Copyright © 2013 Madina Murzakhanovna Akeshova et al. This is an open access article distributed under the
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As the result of educational modernization and joining the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Bologna process,
A. Yasawi International Kazakh-Turkish University points out as one of its main problem the usage of
competence-based approach and information technologies in highly qualified training of the future spe-
cialists of international level with professional activity, critical thinking and creativity because of com-
petence-based approach and information technologies emphasize professional education and training of
future specialists from practical and pragmatic aspects. Taking into consideration necessary elements of
some approaches in pedagogical and psychological sciences such as systematic, personal-oriented and
synergetic and others, the importance of competence-based approach as one of necessary base of forma-
tion of communicative competence and professional training of future specialists is pointed out. It has
professional, pragmatic, humanistic, and practical features, which show its correlation and systematic ad-
vantages. Competence-based approach is one of the most effective means of developing methodological
and creative thinking activity, professional and cultural norms of behavior, correction of oriented values
on the base of educational system, changing activities based on principals of innovative approaches in
teaching process of higher education. The results obtained by the use of competence-based approach and
information technologies show improvements in formation of communicative competence of the future
specialists. Correlation of competence-based approach and information technologies in teaching process
show an increase, which points to a significant development and formation of communicative competence
of the future specialists. The improvement is also represented in higher average grades of the experimen-
tal group and it shows the effectiveness of correlation of competence-based approach and information
technologies in formation of communicative competence of the future specialists.
Keywords: Information Technologies; Competence-Based Approach; Formation of Communicative
Competence
Introduction
During the modern period there is a formation of uniform
world educational space by means of, in particular, harmoniza-
tion of educational standards, approaches, curricula, qualifiers
of specialties in the different countries of the world.
Kazakhstan has accurately defined a reference point on oc-
currence in world educational space and carries out moderni-
sation of educational system in a context of the international
requirements. The Republic of Kazakhstan has entered a strip
of successful realization of principles of Bologna process and
its adaptation to modern realities. The Bologna declaration re-
gulates construction of uniform educational space in Europe on
the basis of introduction of multilevel system of higher educa-
tion and credit-modular system of training and modernization
of the state system of guarantees of quality management forma-
tion, working out of new formats of documents on formation
and modernization of schemes of a financing of education.
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skilled specialists on the international level and increase the
efficiency of educational process at credit-modular teaching
system at A. Yasawi International Kazak-Turkish University is
information of education and use of competence-based ap-
proach and information technologies in professional activity of
the future specialists on the basis of competence approach infor-
mation of communicative competence of the future specialists.
Information of educational system is considered as strate-
gically important paradigm of the Governmental program of
educational development of the Republic of Kazakhstan for
2011-2020, confirmed by the President of Kazakhstan, at tran-
sition to electronic training the prime problem-maintenance of
an education system by highly-skilled personnel (Governmental
Program, www.edu.gov.kz).
According to a new Kazakhstan educational paradigm educa-
tion should be directed on interests of personal development
adequate to modern tendencies of social development, and to
solve following problems:
 to harmonize relations of the person with the nature through
development of a modern scientific picture of the world;
 to stimulate intellectual development and thinking enrich-
ment through development of modern methods of scientific
knowledge;
 recognizing that the person lives in a society, to achieve its
successful socialization through immersing cultural exis-
tence, including technogenic and computerized, environ-
ment;
 considering that the modern person lives in conditions of
the sated and active information environment, to teach the
person to live in its stream, to create preconditions and con-
ditions for continuous self-education;
 in view of integration tendencies of development of a sci-
ence and techniques, requirement for new level of scientific
literacy to create conditions for acquisition of the wide base
of education allowing quickly enough to be switched to ad-
jacent areas of professional activity.
Modern education should be complete, for this reason sepa-
rate disciplines are considered not as set of traditional inde-
pendent courses, and are integrated into the uniform cycles of
disciplines connected by the general criterion function and in-
terdisciplinary communications. One of the basic advantages of
the competence-based approach is that learner is perceived not
as passive object of educational influence, but as the active one
getting higher education. The teacher does not impose to stu-
dents’ personal understanding of a material, and stimulates their
independent activity on mastering. Characteristic for new mo-
del of training, cooperation lies on the basis of educational ac-
tivity.
The traditional educational paradigm basically leads to for-
mation dependent learner as the teacher according to the pro-
gram gives out the planned material focused on the average
learner. Learners are not informed on main objectives and have
no control over educational process and access to all material
that is taught, guided only by instructions of the teacher and the
textbook maintenance, studies in the set rate. It is obvious that
educational process cannot generate the specialist with creative
skills, professional and critical thinking which will be claimed
in a modern society.
The educational environment simulated by means of infor-
mation technologies, allows changing of the situation. The tea-
cher puts the purposes, and forms the informational environ-
ment creating conditions for individual work. Presence of means
for realization of the purposes and problems of educational pro-
cess, knowledge of ways of the organization of teaching system
and control devices are making components of the computer in-
formational educational environment, which forms independent
learner.
Problems Statement
Educational system of the Republic of Kazakhstan is focused
on occurrence in world educational space, therefore the quality
of education is considered in the context of conformity of level
of received educational services by the world standard and
norms. Nowadays the priority is achieved of such quality of
training of specialists which gives them the chance to compete
on the international laboratory. In the conditions of market rela-
tions and complicated requirements to the education, ways of
the organization of educational process searches of new re-
serves of improvement of quality and efficiency of formation of
communicative competence of the future specialists are neces-
sary. Changes in social sphere of a society, information of so-
cial processes made a paradigm of education which was re-
placed on competence-based approach in formation of commu-
nicative competence of the future specialists (Akeshova, 2012:
p. 279).
The organization of educational process with application of
informational technology of training, an optimum combination
of information-communication technologies and traditional ap-
proaches demands the decision of some psychology-pedago-
gical, methodical and other problems and carrying out of cor-
responding researches. Having analyzed the literature on re-
search subjects, we have allocated following actual directions
of using information-communication technologies in educatio-
nal process:
 working out of a technique of use of information-commu-
nication technologies in teaching system to various disci-
plines;
 creation of corresponding methodical maintenance;
 an estimation of efficiency of application of informational
technology of teaching;
 creation of the unique complex scientifically-methodical
approach to a solution of a problem of the usage of infor-
mation-communication technologies in educational process;
 preparation of the pedagogical staff, capable to carry out
training in new conditions and to solve the above-stated
problems and tasks.
The urgency of a considered problem is defined, first, by the
usage of information-communication technologies assumes pre-
sence at the modern, highly skilled expert of new knowledge,
abilities, creative style of thinking which will provide necessary
social adaptation to changes and guarantee its competitiveness
on a labor market; secondly, necessity of perfection of the or-
ganization of professional activity of the future specialists in
the conditions of information; thirdly, objective requirement of
a modern society for preparation of the specialists, capable to be
integrated into world information field; fourthly, tendencies of
a national educational policy (Berkimbaev et al., 2012: p. 55).
Experimental Design
Nowadays competence-based approach and information te-
chnologies are one of the major factors defining intensive and
qualitative development of Kazakhstan educational system.
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Correlation competence-based approach and information te-
chnologies in educational process participate:
 the teacher (defines the maintenance of the program of a
course, a choice of the educational literature, teaching me-
thods, style of communication etc.);
 pedagogical staff of educational institution (establishes the
general requirements to student, kept traditions of given
educational institution, the form of mutual relations of pe-
dagogical and student’s group etc.);
 the state as public institute (defines the material mainte-
nance as a whole, the social order for formation of that or
other system of knowledge and sights).
During the research work we worked out the scheme of cor-
relation of competence-based approach and information tech-
nologies in formation of communicative competence of the fu-
ture specialists in educational process.
To find the optimum decision on a task in view of process of
correlation of competence-based approach and information te-
chnologies in formation of communicative competence of the
future specialists and to receive demanded results of efficiency
of correlation of competence-based approach and information
technologies in formation of communicative competence of the
future specialists we held research work.
The second year students of “Ecology and chemistry” depart-
ment of Engineering-Pedagogical faculty at A. Yasawi Internatio-
nal Kazakh-Turkish University were involved in experiment.
Students of control and experimental group took part in ex-
periment. The control group included 42 students, and experi-
mental group 44 students. In both groups after material granting
on the theme and its practicing control and total tests were or-
ganized and carried out for the mastering, the given material
and check of efficiency of process of correlation of compe-
tence-based approach and information technologies in forma-
tion of communicative competence of the future specialists.
After realization of all the activities according to the program
and evaluation, the results obtained by the use of these two con-
cepts were compared and statistical parameters for two groups
were established.
Based on the analysis of the obtained results, advantages and
disadvantages of the correlation of competence-based approach
and information technologies in formation of communicative
competence of the future specialists in educational process have
been defined during the research work, and also efficiency and
important features of the correlation of competence-based ap-
proach and information technologies in formation of commu-
nicative competence of the future specialists in educational
process was established and shown in the following figure (Fig-
ure 1).
Leaning against methodological approaches and private ex-
perience of correlation of competence-based approach and in-
formation technologies in formation of communicative compe-
tence of the future specialists, we developed the comparative
scheme of correlation of competence-based approach and in-
formation technologies in formation of communicative compe-
TRADITIONAL EDUCATIONAL PROCESS WITH APPLICATION ON
INFORMATION - COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
The use of information -
communication technologies for
illustration and demonstration
Generalisation and practising
knowledge
Perfection of abilities with training
apparatus and teaching programs,
systems of on-line control of
knowledge
The usage of information -
communication technologies as
search complex equipment, a
glossary, the subject and nominal
index (Information search in the
Internet)
Dialogue with e-mail use,
educational forums, teleconferences
Control of knowledge with use of a
database of tasks and tests
Educational telecommunication
projects
Performance of creative tasks
Figure 1.
Correlation of competence-based approach and information technologies in formation of communica-
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tence of the future specialists.
Result and Discussion
Statistical processing of the results
In order to calculate the effectiveness of correlation compe-
tence-based approach and information technology in forma-
tion of communicative competence of future specialists in tea-
ching process, the results of students who were taking part in
experimental group and the results of students, taking part in
control group were compared.
For the proof of degree of formation of communicative com-
petence of future ecologists on the base of correlation of com-
petence approach and information technology it is necessary to
show that experimental and control samples have significant di-
stinctions on the chosen indicator—to ability independently to
analyze the task, to correlate it with professional work practice.
For processing of results of experiment student’s t-criterion was
used to establish similarities and distinctions of two empirical
distributions.
The mathematical package “STATISTICA” was used. By
means of Descriptive statistics mode Basics Statistics/Tables of
this software were the hypothesis about conformity of samples
to normal distribution which was checked up.
On these values for each group the mean score and a stan-
dard deviation (Table 1) have been calculated.
For the given quantity are trained δf = 44 + 42 = 83. The re-
ceived empirical value of t-criterion equal t = 3376 exceeds
critical for ρ = .01 (t = 2,639), but it appears less critical for ρ
= .001 (t = 3,416), hence, it is possible to draw a conclusion on
statistically significant distinction of average arithmetic values
in two samples and about advantages of the second (experi-
mental) methodical system of correlation of competence-based
approach and information technology in formation of commu-
nicative competence of future specialists.
The total test spent with students of control and experimental
group, is aimed on revealing of efficiency of correlation of
competence-based approach and information technology in for-
mation of communicative competence of future specialists. The
concept of factor К relative total mastering of knowledge by
students of one group is entered. The factor К relative total ma-
stering of knowledge by students of one group is calculated
under the formula
543
1N.9 N.6 N.3 N
КN

2
where К—mastering factor, N5, N4, N3, N2—the quantity of the
students, whose answers are estimated accordingly on “5”—90
- 100 points, “4”—70 - 90 points, “3”—50 - 70 points, and N—
total of students in group. The result was estimated on the ave-
rage by the following parities: “excellent”, at .9 ≤ К ≤ 1;
Table 1.
Means on each group of the average grade and the standard deviation.
Numerical characteristics 1st sample
(control group)
2nd sample
(experimental group)
n (quantity of students) 42 44
m (average grade) 3.14 3.8
σ (a standard information
technology deviation) .61 .32
“good”, at .7 ≤ К ≤ .9; “satisfactory”, at .5 ≤ К ≤ .7; “unsatis-
factorily”, at К < .5.
Results of experiment were processed and tabulated for com-
parison in the following table (Table 2).
From the received results reflected in (Table 1) and the his-
togram (Figure 2), and also the obtained results, it is possible
to draw a conclusion that experimental work confirmed effec-
tiveness of the process of correlation of competence-based ap-
proach and information technology in formation of communi-
cative competence of future specialists.
According to the results of experimental work we can point
out that students of experimental group have received high
scores in total tests: improvements were observed at students
who experienced difficulties in mastering material in the proc-
ess of correlation of competence-based approach and informa-
tion technology in formation of communicative competence of
future specialists; students’ results of experimental group were
higher than the results of control group students that proves the
effectiveness of correlation of competence-based approach and
information technology in formation of communicative compe-
tence of future specialists; correlation of competence-based
approach and information technology in formation of commu-
nicative competence of future specialists improved the progress
of professional training of the future specialists.
During the research work we pointed out some advantages of
correlation of competence-based approach and information te-
chnology in educational process.
Correlation of competence-based approach and information
technology at the present stage development allows:
 to construct the open educational system, own trajectory of
teaching methods providing to everyone individually (Ne-
fedova, 2005: p. 217);
 to change radically the organization of the process of know-
ledge by its displacement towards creative thinking system;
 to create an effective control system of information-me-
thodical maintenance of education (Zakharova, 2005: p.
158);
 to organize informative and professional work during edu-
cational process;
 to use specific properties of the computer, allowing to indi-
vidualize educational process and to address to essentially
new informative means( Nowaczyk, R., 2008: p. 367);
 to construct, develop and improve systems of remote train-
ing of various level (Sanaoui et al., 2004: p. 531).
Correlation of competence-based approach and information
technology in educational process helps to solve a number of
didactic problems:
 to study the phenomena and processes in micro- and a mac-
rocosm, in difficult technical and biological systems on the
basis of use of means of computer graphics and computer
modeling (Warshauer, M., 2010: p. 477);
 to represent in time scale convenient for studying the vari-
Table 2.
The generalized comparative results of examination of students ac-
cording to two tests.
к
Groups
The control test The total test
The control .74 .62
The experimental .88 .93
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0.74
0.62
0.88
0.93
0.00
0.10
0.20
0.30
0.40
0.50
0.60
0.70
0.80
0.90
1.00
The con t rol test The total test
The control
The experimental
Figure 2.
The generalized comparative results of examination of students according to two tests.
ous social processes really proceeding with very big or very
small speed (Stepp-Greany, 2002: p. 175).
Thus knowledge can be received in the declarative way, i.e.
focused on a consecutive presentation of portions of the educa-
tional information and control of its mastering (electronic text-
books, test and supervising programs, directories and educatio-
nal databases, educational video films), or procedural, i.e. under
construction on the basis of models of studied objects, proc-
esses and the phenomena (imitating models, subject-oriented
environments and laboratory practical works developed on their
basis, training apparatus, game programs).
Conclusion
In the conclusion it is necessary to notice that now in the
world consecutive and steady movement to construction of an
information society which urged to create the best conditions
for the maximum self-realization of each person is observed
(McGrath B., 2008: p. 60).
The carried out analysis of works of many researchers show
that the correlation of competence-based approach and infor-
mation technology in formation of communicative compe-
tence of future specialists, for the decision of educational prob-
lems, training of the specialists with the critical and creative
thinking, capable to function effectively in changing conditions
of professional work, becomes the integral component of mod-
ern education. In modern educational system the tendency of
displacement of accents from mastering of knowledge trained
on ability to use the information is traced, to be received by
means of information technologies.
Therefore training of specialists should include system to use
the given technologies in the future professional work, espe-
cially in a context of information of a modern society.
The problem of development of teaching technologies takes
an important place in a modern pedagogical science as achieve-
ment of peak efficiency of educational process directly depends
on presence of competently developed methodical maintenance
and definition of a place and a role of information technologies
in educational process.
It is necessary to notice that now in the world consecutive
and steady movement to construction of an information society
which urged to create the best conditions for the maximum self-
realization of each person is observed. The bases for such pro-
cess are intensive development of information-communication
technologies and creation of the developed information educa-
tional environment.
Studying and the analysis of a current state of a problem of
their use in educational sphere, has shown that there are the
numerous works considering possibilities, properties, functions,
potential of information technology without an accurate sub-
stantiation on the basis of the fact sheet received as a result of
practical activities, during experiments. The obvious lack of the
researches representing theoretically well-founded methodical
recommendations and pedagogical working out on their appli-
cation is traced. The questions of correlation of competence-
based approach and information technology on efficiency of
educational process are insufficiently worked. There are no the
long and extensive researches showing degree of efficiency and
expediency of support of various courses at correlation of com-
petence-based approach and information technology through
the Internet by means of telecommunication technologies.
Competence approach promotes communicative competence,
willingness to innovate, work in non-standard situations, open-
ness to new, adaptability and mobility.
According to the results of scientific and practical research
conducted in A. Yasawi International Kazakh-Turkish Univer-
sity, indicator of formation of the communicative competence
of future specialists is readiness for changes, which includes
awareness of the situation of the new demand, the development
of strategic reasons alleged for consistency of this new, in-
cluding the development of advanced models of change career
and revision of the content of the educational process. Together
all counted above provide a consciousness and spontaneous ac-
tivity of the choice of the projection image of the desired changes
or future.
Theoretical and practical study is ongoing and at this stage of
study we came to the conclusion that the importance and rele-
vance of the implementation, application and correlation allow
the competent approach and information technology to the edu-
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competence of the future specialists. In the design of edu-
cational process of high school we must take into account the
variety of methodological approaches that alter perception, out-
look, creative thinking activity of specialists of XXI century
and its impact on practice and formation of professional and
communicative competence. The quality and effectiveness of
training of the future specialists determined the formation of the
professional and communicative competence, which may be
provided by the presence of language, production, research, so-
ciocultural knowledge based on correlation of competence-bas-
ed approach and information technology in the educational pro-
cess of the university.
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