Demonstration exam is an intermediate and/or final procedure for assessing the practical competencies of students of secondary vocational education, providing for the simulation of real working conditions when performing tasks in professional activity. The project has been implemented since 2017.

The advantages of the demonstration exam as a tool for the independent assessment of the competencies of secondary vocational schools graduates for enterprises:

1 - For the employing enterprises interested in personnel training:

- an independent assessment of the practical competencies of graduates of secondary vocational education organizations in order to select qualified personnel or the formation of a personnel reserve for the enterprise, as well as the possibility of their distribution to production units in accordance with the results of the demonstration exam;

- the opportunity to influence the quality and content of education in accordance with the requirements of employers and the labor market;

- the development of the Worldskills expert base from among the company’s employees;

- the opportunity of direct participation in the assessment of graduates by sending experts, as a guarantee of the objectivity of the results, which excludes the need to further evaluate and train them upon hiring.

2 - For equipment manufacturers:

- an increase in the number of experts in the field of industrial equipment, an increase in the level of automation of production in Russia;

- creation of a pool of specialists who are able to work on the manufacturer’s equipment for sure;

- increasing brand loyalty of equipment manufacturers through certification (confirmation) of the quality of manufactured products in accordance with international standards by experts.

Mechanism for implementing the practice :

Basic conditions:

·The organizers of the demonstration exam procedure are educational organizations that train students according to the SVS FSES.

Enterprises ready to take part in the demonstration exams act in cooperation with educational organizations in accordance with the local agreements established between them (cooperation agreements, contracts, etc.).

·Enterprises can participate in organizing and conducting demonstration exam procedures in the following formats:

o providing expert support for the demonstration exam from among the company’s employees trained and certified according to the requirements of the WorldSkills Russia Union (experts are trained at the expense of enterprises, on the basis of the WorldSkills Russia Academy);

o comparison (correlation) of the requirements of Worldskills standards and the requirements of enterprises (corporate standards of employers), professional standards, updating thereof for integration into a set of assessment materials;

o financial support for the demonstration exam procedure in accordance with the requirements for the relevant competencies (based on agreements and other local regulations established during cooperation between educational organizations and enterprises) in areas - payment for the services of independent experts from among the enterprise employees, equipment, consumables.

Demonstration exam procedures:

· The enterprise participates in demo exam procedures (preparatory stage, preliminary day and day of the exam) in accordance with the degree of participation of the enterprise in the DE process and taking into account the indicated agreements with the authorized educational organization (exam organizer).

Additional formats of enterprises participation in the demonstration exam procedures during the basic educational process:

· Expansion of the expert network of the demonstration exam from among the employees of enterprises, representatives of the labor market and professional communities.

· Involvement of experts, representatives of production and the labor market to participate in updating the SVS FSES and evaluation materials for the demonstration exam.

Refinement of the model of network cooperation in the legislation on education, including in terms of the possibility of organizing demonstration exam sites on the basis of enterprises.

Demonstration test according to WorldSkills Russia standards

Practice discussion