Methodology for performance evaluation of an activity approach with the use of an educational blog in the teaching and learning process

In this article the author evaluates the degree of implementation of an activity approach, introducing the educational blog “Ucheba.ru” into the teaching and learning process. This blog contains the developed lessons with the use of the Educational Global Information Society Technology (TOGIS), cinquain, webquest. Students demonstrate all their results on the service “Webanketa”, where there is a possibility to discuss the learned material. As a result of such lessons students receive a high-quality level of skills, mental mobility and flexibility, ability to refuse the long-standing concepts and to change their views in new educational conditions. When defining tools for activity approach realization by means of blog, we focused on the result, that can be achieved in the context of studying the discipline, and placed the emphasis on the internal changes concerned with the cognitive, emotional, behavioral sphere, critical thinking of students and their external manifestations. In the process of the experimental work with the help of questioning and survey the motivational ground of education by means of an educational blog was revealed as a consequence students are motivated to increase their level of knowledge by studying the discipline. The article presents a system of criteria and indicators for performance evaluation of intensification and efficiency improvement of educational process by means of blog (cognitive, emotional and behavioral) which were studied according to estimates of changes at the beginning and at the end of the experiment.