The article deals with topical issues of training specialists in the field of cyberpsychology. The article analyzes the history and current state of the designated problem in various countries. There is an expansion of the requirements for the teaching staff leading the training of this category of specialists, determined by the relationship of cyber-psychology with various branches of scientific knowledge. Attention is focused on the insufficient number of textbooks and teaching aids, as well as the speed of “aging” of the information presented in them. The expediency of highlighting the psychological features of cyber-socialization of personality as a promising direction of research in the field under consideration is indicated.

Engagement is considered as a state characterized by high motivation for the activities performed, active distribution of personal resources to perform tasks related to the work role, orientation towards the quality performance of one’s activities. Since engagement includes in its content the commitment of a person to his cause and his organization, two types of this state are analyzed: engagement in work (work engagement) and engagement in the organization (organizational engagement).

The article highlights analysis of the educational results of the training of middlelevel specialists in secondary vocational education in comparison with modern qualification requirements for specialists of this qualification level. The results of pedagogical research aimed at methods for the development of students’ self-control skills in educational activities are analyzed. The prospects of the author’s research aimed at creating a methodology for the formation of professional self-control competence are presented.

The article presents the activities of the consulting center of the Moscow psychologicsocial university, describes and analyzes the results of monitoring the provision of consulting services by specialists of the center to modern parents on issues of upbringing, education and development of children.

The article considers the cultural and value orientations of specialists in the helping field of activity. Aspects of cultural intelligence are touched upon. The concept of culture is considered as a system of values that forms a person’s well-defined value needs and orientations. This is especially relevant for specialists in the helping field of activity. The analysis of differences in the general level of cultural intelligence and cultural and value orientations of specialists of the helping field of activity is carried out.

The article clarifies the concepts of “business reputation” and “professional identity”. To a large extent, this is determined not only by the variety of factors that affect the reputation and identity of an employee, but also by the dynamics of these factors, their variability along with the variability of the person himself, teams and organizations. An important role in creating an employee’s reputation is played by both essential factors (directly related to this work activity) and accompanying factors (more related to informal communication in teams). It is shown that in different professions these factors affect both the reputation and identity of the employee in different ways. On this basis, two models are proposed, which can be taken as a basis for building new typologies of business reputation, as well as a basis for assessing and predicting changes in the status of an employee’s professional identity.

Based on the data obtained by the authors of the article in the framework of a analysis, held in the All-Russian Public Organization “Russian Professorial Assembly”, they define the problem of ensuring the quality of organizations’ activities, conducting professional and public accreditation in the higher education system. The authors describe typical mistakes in the activities of such organizations, as well as substantiate proposals for solving the problem of professional competence of such organizations.

This article deals with the military-patriotic education of the younger generation, the role of pedagogical practice in the training of future specialists in the field of military-political work, as well as the activities of cadets of the Military University, which is aimed at the military-patriotic education of the younger generation.

On the basis of the comprehensive analysis carried out by the authors, a scientific substantiation of the requirements for effective means of objective and accurate independent assessment of the quality of training of university students is proposed, including in relation to the most methodically difficult educational outcomes for such an assessment — universal and general professional competencies of students. A structured list of the main of these requirements is given, including requirements for evaluation criteria and requirements for evaluation methods and systems (technologies). An organizational mechanism is proposed to ensure the guarantees of professionally competent conduct of this assessment — the creation and operation of a voluntary association of organizations conducting this assessment in full compliance with the regulatory requirements for its organization and for effective means of conducting it.

The article is devoted to the study of problems concerning the education of foreigners. The ways of overcoming the difficulties encountered in teaching this category of students are considered. Attention is drawn to the national and cultural characteristics of foreign students, methodological recommendations are given to teachers.

The article analyzes the essence of pedagogical technology of didactic design of personnel training in higher education institutions of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, substantiates its structure, reveals the content of each element of technology, characterizes its role. The content of the article is focused on the grounded and practical application of pedagogical technology in the training of officers, as well as the improvement of pedagogy of the higher military school.

The article deals with the issues of interaction between the teacher and students, reflecting their general image in the process of formation of the last passionary qualities. At the same time, the author proposes the organization and conduct of training sessions in the specialty only by the teacher who is necessarily a carrier of passionate energy. In order to actualize the problem of training specialists whose activities are associated with a risk to health, and physically hard work is often performed in adverse environmental conditions, it is proposed to consider the solution of the pedagogical problem on the example of the organization of the educational environment in the preparation of cynologists-figuranty in cynological units of the federal executive authorities of the Russian Federation.

A new educational paradigm in the context of socioal and cultural transformations and challenges of the modern information society determines the updated guidelines for the goals of the modern system of higher education. The positions of the development of the personal potential of the student are updated; centering on the student’s personality as a subject of selfdetermination, self-development, self-realization; mobile, capable of presenting uniqueness, success in the new changing conditions and requirements of society and the labor market from the standpoint of existing indicators of knowledge, skills, resources for productive action and opportunities for development. Solving the problem of understanding the use of the possibilities of the educational space of the university to form the image of a future specialist has become the main task of the study.

The article raises the problem of ensuring the quality of evaluation tools for the procedures of independent assessment of the quality of university students’ training — first of all, in the aspect of the main scientific and methodological and, as a consequence, organizational reasons for the unresolved nature of this problem. The relevance of these procedures in connection with the introduction of a risk-based model of quality control of education in Russia is substantiated. It is shown that this uncertainty leads, on the one hand, to a reasonable distrust of the federal authorities in the field of education to the data of an independent assessment of the quality of training of university students and, on the other hand, to the unpopularity in the higher education system today of this procedure nationwide. The negative consequences of this situation are analyzed, in particular, the non-use of the state-public potential of the legislation that established this procedure, especially with regard to the objective assessment of the results of training in accordance with the requirements of federal state educational standards of higher education to the general cultural/universal and general professional competencies of students.

The article presents an analysis of domestic research devoted to the problem of the development of transfessionalism for engineering specialists. The acceleration of scientific and technological progress, the introduction of innovative technologies lead to a process of constant need to increase professional knowledge, the development of new competencies, often from completely different professional fields. Therefore, it is important to understand the mechanism that ensures the development of transfessional — occupational mobility as a significant personal characteristic that ensures the projective management of one’s professional development and transformation of the professional environment. Occupational mobility acts as a mechanism of transition from the level of a professional (a specialist with competencies within one profession) to the level of a transprofessional (a specialist with competencies in a number of related professions), and subsequently — a transfessional (an expert of a supra-professional level synthesizing competencies of completely different professions in his professional activity) The article discusses the theoretical aspects of understanding the phenomenon of professional mobility and its essential characteristics. Considerable attention is paid to research aimed at studying the psychological prerequisites for the development of occupational mobility, and prospects for further study of this phenomenon are outlined.

Value-target orientations regulate the development of a life position and life programs, the creation of an image of the future, and the prospects for personal development. Biological, psychological and social processes of personality development determine the choice of areas of study, specialties and the success of education in higher educational institutions. The article examines the formation of value-target orientations of students studying under agreements on targeted training. The effectiveness of targeted training is not only the solution of personnel issues, but also the provision of “social lifts” for young people and the prevention of the outflow of young people to work abroad. The task of universities is to get a 100 % result of a professionally and personally formed student who is ready to engage in professional activities at state enterprises. Diagnostics of the value-target orientations of the individual in relation to the professional self-determination of students under the agreement on targeted training was carried out through the questionnaire “Professional self-determination of students”. Questions to students in the questionnaire were divided into several areas in order to analyze learning outcomes, social and psychological support for students, satisfaction with training and information support. Adolescence, conditions and quality of formation of a specialist are factors influencing his professional and civic orientation.

We have developed a model of the training program for the formation of creativity by means of acting. The complex of exercises for the development of creativity among software engineers is based on methods of teaching acting skills and tasks aimed at developing conceptual thinking skills and presenting knowledge necessary for programmers and cognitive scientists.

The article analyzes the essence of the didactic design of the training of military specialists in Russian universities, substantiates its structure, reveals the content of each element of didactic design, characterizes its role. The content of the article is focused on the grounded and practical application of didactic design in the training of officers for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, on solving the problems of pedagogy of the higher military school in the modern training of military specialists in Russian universities.

In the article are represented main data about issues of military specialists training with informational technology and simulators systems application in the Russian military leading education organizations. Was analyzed the experience of modern training means utilization for military specialists education in the similar areas. That is considered current requirements to military specialists training systems in accordance with last generation state education standards in the electronic education information environment.

The article reveals the specific features of the modern Russian family, focuses on the insufficient pedagogical competence of many parents and the need to provide them with targeted psychological and pedagogical counseling. On the example of the activity of the Consulting Center of the Moscow Psychological and Social University, the main directions of effective assistance to parents in matters of upbringing and education of children are described.