MECHANISMS FOR THE INTEGRATION OF SOFT SKILLS, VOLUNTEERING, AND STUDENTS' SOCIAL GPA AT THE UNIVERSITY
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.59787/2413-5488-2025-50-2-135-145Ключевые слова:
soft skills, assessment and evaluation of soft skills, student volunteering, social GPA, integrated GPA.Аннотация
The article examines the mechanisms for integrating soft skills, volunteering, and university students’ social GPA. The authors analyze specific features of each concepts and based on identifying their interrelation, propose recommendations for implementing the research results into practical application of social GPA in Kazakhstan universities. They suppose that the findings of the study could be used to improve legal and regulatory framework for scaling up the pilot project on assessing student achievements, taking into account the Integrated GPA (IGPA).
The article’s aim is to identify the mechanisms for integrating soft skills, volunteering, and students’ social GPA. To achieve this goal, following objectives were solved: 1) to establish the correlation between the concepts of “soft skills” and “volunteering” and their interrelation; 2) to determine the role of soft skills within the criteria system of students’ social GPA; 3) to propose recommendations to the scientific and academic community of Kazakhstan regarding the integration of three phenomena under consideration.
The results obtained in the course of solving the objectives allowed authors to conclude that students’ volunteering acts as a socio-pedagogical platform for soft skills development, the combination of which has a significant impact on social GPA level, thereby contributing to students’ personal development.
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