Metacognitive skills formation technology as means of increasing the efficiency of student's independent work

The paper offers the ways of increasing the efficiency and intensifying the student’s independent learning activity. The opportunity of revealing students’ metacognitive skills, independence and self-directed learning in the process of education is discussed. It is very important in modern education not only to transfer a certain sum of knowledge, but also to create ability to acquire new knowledge and to study independently. There is a focus on the students’ individual selforganizing and self-regulating independent work as the dominant form of students’ learning and cognitive activity. The special role is played by metacognitive skills, which are used for solving different problems of studying and different tasks in students’ future profession. But there are some difficulties: opportunity to measure precisely the existence of metacognitive skills, opportunity to train metacognitive skills and the choice of methods and techniques in achieving the goal. The paper is focused on self-directed learning, self-instruction and learning to learn as the main requisites for students’ professional success. It also offers some methods and assessment methods of metacognitive skills formation. One of the main issues is the assessment of metacognitive awareness and its interpretation. In the paper the usage of technology training metacognitive skills and methods of the assessment of metacognitive awareness is considered.