Abstract: In modern sociocultural situation of multinational Russia, especially relevant is the problem of formation of ethnocultural competence of the students in educational process of the university. The subject of this article is the process of formation of ethnocultural competence of students in the educational process of the supporting university. The object is the cultural dialogue methodological approaches and interactive methods of college education. Special attention is given to the procedural characteristics, regional peculiarities, and possibilities of the gradual evaluation of formation of the ethnocultural competencies of students majoring in the discipline 44.03.02 the Psychological and Pedagogical Education in Modern University. Methodological foundations consists in culturological and competent approaches. Using the methods of structural analysis, comparison, and grouping of the series of surveys that involved 5 educators and 40 junior students of the aforementioned discipline, the author identifies the promising cultural-dialogue methodological approaches and interactive methods of university education that increase the students’ motivation and ensure the establishment of ethnocultural competence.  The main conclusion lies in the proven possibilities of application of such approaches for formation of the ethnocultural competence of the students, which consist in the difference of positions of the actor of pedagogical interaction, ability to intone the material, understanding of the necessity and purposeful formation of the imagery and emotional support of submerging into the content of the material.

Abstract: The present research article is devoted to the pedagogical problem of assessing academic achievements and competences of University students as a result of adopting new higher education standards. The competency approach directs a teacher in his educational environment depending on disciplines and allows to predict students' academic activity results expressed in the form of general cultural and professional competences. Within new approaches to educational activity, it is growing especially improtant to select the best methods for assessing academic success of students and level of their ethno-cultural and professional competence. The purpose of the present article is to analyze the variety of assessment methods and to test one of them, portfolio method, in the University educational process based on the analysis of the discipline 'Multicultural education' in the major 'Psychological and pedagogical education'. The main conclusions and results made by the author in this research contribute to the solution of an important technological problem of University education - analysis of existing methods to assess the level of students' competences in a certain major and selection of the best methods for particular disciplines and programs, for example, the method of creating a final portfolio describing particular academic achievements.