Introduction. Communication complexities which often occur in interdisciplinary work gave rise to the studies on teaching interdisciplinary communication. A growing need to provide pedagogical solutions to facilitate teaching interdisciplinary communication stimulated the research into language as a social practice to better understand communication process for interdisciplinary purposes.
Aim. This exploratory study investigates the concept of interdisciplinary communicative competence and proposes a framework of interdisciplinary communicative competence with the focus on three underlying components: knowledge, skills, and personal attributes of interdisciplinary team members.
Methodology and research methods. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used. The data obtained from 24 in-depth semi-structured interviews with five groups of higher education stakeholders (employers, academic directors of the programmes, professors, students, and alumni) revealed the existing interdisciplinary practices in the university and cross-functional practices in the companies. The proposed framework was empirically tested using an online survey with 139 responses from professors, students, and employers. The data processing techniques included the use of Kendall’s concordance coefficient, Cronbach’s alpha, and the principal component analysis.
Results. The study presents the authors’ conceptualisation of interdisciplinary communicative competence and its framework as the result of the literature analysis and the empirical research. The findings provided evidence on the importance of language skills for effective interdisciplinary communication as perceived by 5 groups of respondents. The choice of language skills as a basic component of interdisciplinary communicative competence is justified.
Scientific novelty. The study contributes to the conceptualisation of a framework of interdisciplinary communicative competence. The elements of the framework are identified and their relevance is empirically tested.
Practical significance. The results of the empirical part of the study can be applied in the design of interdisciplinary learning process in higher education, for example, in the design of interdisciplinary courses, and teaching materials.

Introduction. Today, in the conditions of constant and growing uncertainty, there is the need to develop new, up-to-date methodologies for the development of university management teams, the transformation of their activities in a new environment.
Aim. The present research aims to analyse methodological approaches to the formation and development of teams working on the strategic university transformation projects that meet the needs of practice and reflect the most effective ways to create and operate university project teams.
Methodology and research methods. As the scientific basis of the proposed methodological approach to the effective formation and development of teams working on the strategic projects for the transformation of universities, the main theoretical provisions of the team-based approach are determined. The main research methods involved the analysis of scientific publications on the topic under study, the grouping and classification of approaches, a deep semi-formalised interview with 76 representatives of the administrative and managerial apparatus of three large Russian universities (regional classical universities from the Volga and Siberian Federal Districts of Russia), a questionnaire survey of 78 experts.
Results. International experience in studying the activities of management teams of higher education institutions was summarised. The authors identified the restrictions and possibilities of using international experience in Russian universities. The scientific and practical groundwork for the formation and development of teams for the strategic university transformation projects is presented.
Scientific novelty. The authors critically analysed the existing methodological approaches to the formation and development of teams for strategic university transformation projects, which reflect the most effective ways of creating and functioning university transformation project teams.
Practical significance lies in justifying a set of methodological approaches to the formation and development of project teams and checking their applicability in the practice of university implementation transformation projects. The research materials can be useful to the representatives of administrative and managerial personnel, the heads of projects and programmes for the university development, and the employees participating in projects.

Introduction. In recent decades, one of the significant global trends in the field of higher education is the expansion of its links with the world of work. This implies not only a new design of the results of training students in the form of a system of universal, general professional and professional competencies, but also the introduction of modern adequate technologies for assessing the level of their formation and development at all stages of students’ education at a university. Given that competence is an integrative characteristic of personality traits, one should recognise the relevance and necessity of developing such assessment tools that create situations for the student to be included in various types of his/her future professional activities. One of these tools is professionally oriented tasks that allow for an integral approach assessing the formation of competencies by taking into account all types of professional tasks and broad interdisciplinary connections in their content and, therefore, requiring a synthesis of professional knowledge, skills and abilities of the student for their solution.
Aim. The aim of the study is to justify the structure and criteria for assessing the quality of professionally oriented tasks to diagnose the level of student teachers’ competency formation.
Methodology and research methods. The methodological framework of the study was the activity, competency-based and qualimetric approaches, which allow the training of teachers to be considered as a flexible system that takes into account all types and tasks of their future professional activity, and reflects the relationship of goals, methods, content of training and diagnostics of its results. As the main one, the study used a qualimetric approach, which involves the use of the method of group expert assessments to organise procedures for pedagogical examination of the structure of professionally oriented tasks and criteria for assessing their quality.
Results. The method of group expert assessments allowed the authors to define the structure and criteria for assessing the quality of professionally oriented tasks as a means of developing and diagnosing the integrative learning outcomes of future preschool teachers.
Scientific novelty. The structure of professionally oriented tasks is substantiated, represented by: an invariant part with an emphasis on the fundamental component of the content of student training, covering the fundamental psychological and pedagogical knowledge of the future teacher, the ability to apply them synthetically and transfer them to professional activities; a variable component aimed primarily at diagnosing professional competencies determined by the profile of the student training. The criteria for assessing the quality of professionally oriented tasks have been established by the method of group expert assessments, which make it possible to objectify the procedures for diagnosing the competencies of future teachers: multifunctionality, specialisation orientation, latency, integrativity.
Practical significance. The present research findings can be used by university teachers in the process of training and targeted correction of the readiness of pedagogical students. Moreover, the research materials could be applied to form and diagnose the entire spectrum of students’ universal, general professional and professional competencies, including within the framework of possible individual educational trajectories.

Introduction. The article continues the series of publications within the framework of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) project “Construction of a Fundamental Model for the Digital Transformation of the General Education System”.
Aim. The aim of the study was to analyse the current state of development of digital educational services and the development of digital competencies by participants in the educational process.
Methodology and research methods. The authors used the materials from a number of secondary monitoring studies; however, the current research is based on completely original material. The data obtained during the survey are published for the first time. The main method of collecting information is an electronic questionnaire based on Google forms. The survey respondents were participants in the educational process, predominantly permanently residing in the territory of the Sverdlovsk region (99% of respondents). The survey was conducted on a voluntary and completely anonymous basis.
Results. The research results of the study suggest that the mastery of digital technologies by the participants in the educational process is insignificantly associated with the implementation of state strategic programmes in the field of digital transformation of education. Although the ongoing changes such as the development of digital infrastructure in the school, the accumulation of digital educational content, the development of specialised services, the increase in the level of digital literacy of teachers are necessary. However, within the framework of the existing education management system, the aforementioned changes do not provide significant motivation for the actual use of opportunities of digital infosphere in education. Accordingly, at the moment, the transformation process is taking place according to the worst (inertial) scenario.
Scientific novelty. The article makes it possible to more accurately assess the situation in regional education in order to make current management decisions and provides reference points for longitudinal research aimed at achieving the main goal of the project as a potential basis for the educational strategy of the Russian Federation.

The research relevance is due to the need for regional education systems to develop tools and assessment techniques that allow identifying professional deficits in Russian teachers. This article analyses the results of approbation diagnostics of professional competencies of teachers in the state information system “Electronic Education of the Republic of Tatarstan”. Diagnostic tools were developed by scientific and pedagogical workers of organisations of higher and additional professional education of the Republic in accordance with the provisions of the professional standard “Teacher”.
Aim. The present research aims to analyse and summarise the results of the monitoring of professional deficits of teachers of the Republic of Tatarstan in the field of subject, methodological, psychological, pedagogical and regulatory competencies for further building individual development trajectories and targeted professional development programmes.
Methodology and research methods. Teachers were tested in their personal accounts in the information system “Electronic Education of the Republic of Tatarstan”. Evaluation materials were divided into blocks that differ in content and purpose in accordance with the labour functions of the professional standard “Teacher”: legal, subject, methodological and psychological-pedagogical blocks. Each option consisted of 25 tasks. The maximum participant in the diagnostics could score 100 points. The interpretation of the level of professional deficits was carried out in accordance with the scale recommended by the Ministry of Education. The results of the diagnostic work were processed using visual and mathematical- statistical methods implemented within the tools and libraries of the Python programming language.
Results and scientific novelty. The authors identified the target blocks corresponding to certain labour functions of a teacher. When performing the tasks from the identified target blocks, teachers experience the greatest and least professional difficulties. The authors identified control and measuring materials, which are associated to be the most difficult. The deficit level was analysed among subject teachers. The authors separately analysed the results of testing in the field of inclusiveness and individualisation of the educational process, the formation of digital competencies in the context of teachers of the humanities, natural sciences and primary school teachers. A correlation analysis of block diagnostic results was carried out. The influence of the territorial factor on the differentiation of test results was analysed. Difficulties, equally pronounced for both urban and rural teachers, in most cases are associated with the unwillingness of teachers to fully solve professional tasks in the formation of functional literacy of schoolchildren, the development of inclusive and personalised learning; with insufficient knowledge of the psychological and pedagogical features of the development of children of different ages to resolve conflict situations.
Practical significance. The results obtained and the conclusions drawn can become the basis for the preparation of methodological recommendations in the field of organising the educational environment for advanced training courses, taking into account teachers’ urgent needs.

Introduction. Previous studies pointed out that there is an important relationship between personality factors and an individual’s well-being.
Aim. This study aims to investigate the relationships between adaptive/maladaptive perfection and subject well-being among college students. Besides, positive/avoidance stress coping strategies are used as a mediator in the relationship between adaptive/maladaptive perfectionism and subject well-being.
Methodology and research methods. This study used a quantitative research method to investigate a population of college students. Questionnaires were also delivered to 350 students in colleges in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The authors used Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) via AMOS to test all the hypotheses.
Results. The findings show that (1) adaptive perfectionism can positively predict subjective wellbeing through positive coping strategies and negatively predict subject well-being through avoidance coping strategies; (2) maladaptive perfectionism can negatively predict subjective well-being through positive coping strategies and positively through avoidance coping strategies; (3) adaptive/maladaptive perfectionism can directly predict subject well-being. Scientific novelty. This study gains more insights into the role of stress coping strategies as a mediator in the relationship between adaptive/maladaptive perfectionism and subject well-being among college students.
Practical significance. The findings in this study suggest that teachers, mentors, and counsellors should give appropriate counselling to college students to help them obtain good learning development and physical and mental adaptation.

Introduction. Despite the evidence from the cognitive approach that performance decreases under multitasking conditions, multitasking is increasingly seen as an important skill to develop, especially among young people.
Aim. The present research aims to reveal personal (personal traits, satisfaction of basic needs) and digital (user activity, combined activity, attitude to technology, digital competence) factors of subjective assessment of multitasking in students and their attitude to multitasking.
Methodology and research methods. In the course of the research, 260 students of Moscow universities answered questions about their multitasking and their attitude to it, and then filled out the scales for assessing subjective well-being, attitudes towards learning, personal traits, basic psychological needs, user and combined activity, attitudes to technology, digital competence and the desire for digitalisation of education. The data were processed using descriptive statistics, Pearson’s correlation analysis, group comparison methods (Pearson’s Chi-square, Student’s t-test).
Results. According to the estimates of the students, they spend almost half of their daytime combining different activities. Most of students consider multitasking as a useful skill and would like to improve it. Higher multitasking scores are associated with greater conscientiousness, openness to experience, competence, positive emotions, as well as technophilia, digital skills. The desire to improve own multitasking is higher among students with a higher level of combined activity, technophilia, technorationality, as well as among students, who higher estimate the opportunities of digitalisation in education. Two out of three students consider multitasking as a useful ability; every second student thinks that multitasking can be developed by training. Multitasking and the desire to improve it are related to the attitude towards multitasking as a trained and developed skill, while the idea of its usefulness or uniqueness is practically not related to psychological and digital factors. Further research may be aimed at revealing relationships between subjective multitasking with activity diary data and experimentally organised multitasking.
Scientific novelty. The attitude to multitasking format among young people was investigated from the perspective of a comprehensive approach, which combines personal characteristics and peculiarities of online activity.
Practical significance. The peculiarities of students’ attitudes towards multitasking as a personal choice of doing several things simultaneously, reflecting among other things a positive attitude towards multitasking and a desire to develop it, can become a significant component to develop educational programmes, as well as important knowledge to provide interaction between teachers and students under the conditions of digitalisation in education.