The result of military personnel practical training lies in skilful and confident actions using available weapons and military equipment in all types of the combined arms operation. There is a need ...to use training and simulation equipment in order to increase the force proficiency, to save resources in weapons and military equipment use. Analysis of the ground forces personnel military training system in the militarily developed leading countries of the world indicates the tendency of further reduction of the weapons and military equipment use for the personnel professional training, the introduction of new forms and methods into training with the use of simulators, training and simulation equipment and training and simulation complexes. The armies of NATO countries have a tendency to use full-scale simulators designed to provide cadets with specific skills that allow the personnel training as part of crews (teams), platoons, company and other units, as well as to carry out the full range of their functional responsibilities. The authors of the article have developed a method for assessing the effectiveness of the military personnel competitive activity when solving tactical tasks using laser tag type two-way skirmish simulators, which allows to determine the level of separate components training (the skills level of separate tactical techniques accomplishment, tactical, physical, psychological readiness) and to carry out the personnel training level assessment as a whole. The assessment included the most important training level criteria which characterize a degree of a serviceman tactical training and have an influence upon the real end result when solving the tactical tasks by the unit as a whole.
The article substantiates the experimental program of professional competencies formation in future bachelors of the state border security by means of complex practical exercises. The level of ...cadets’ motivation to master the specialty of a border guard officer was determined; the influence of training classes according to the author’s teaching methods on the efficiency of professional competencies formation in cadets of the state border security is determined; the levels of their professional competencies formedness are determined. The research was conducted at Bohdan Khmelnytskyi National Academy of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in 2018-2021. 191 cadets of the Faculty of the State Border Security took part in the research. The summative assessment evaluated the degree of mastering the system of knowledge about the essence, content, methods, ways of professional activities; skills and abilities of future bachelors of the state border security to independently solve urgent tasks of border surveillance at the tactical level. The main dominant motives that inspire the cadets to quality education were presented; the key reasons that hinder the formation of the cadets’ professional competencies were outlined. Research methods: system-structural analysis of pedagogical, psychological, educational and methodical, normative sources for tracing the development of pedagogical thought on the researched problem; study of academic instructors’ experience, existing needs of border practice; comparison; synthesis and abstraction; summative assessment, survey, statistical analysis. At the end of the experiment, it was found that the level of professional competence in the experimental group cadets is significantly better (p < 0.001) compared to the control group cadets. It is determined that the number of the experimental group cadets with a high level of professional competencies increased at the end of the experiment compared to the control group, which confirmed the effectiveness of the experimental program.
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