Educational instrumental dual-purpose sites as a means of developing students’ research skills

Problem statement . Formation and development of students’ research skills in subject training in the context of digital transformation of education is a critical task. The purpose of the work is to substantiate a methodological approach to developing research skills when teaching students of pedagogical specialties to create educational instrumental dual-use sites. Methodology. Many research skills are developed in human activity during the creative development of digital resources. If, when teaching future teachers website building, we define the task of creating a website for teaching and conducting research related to its design, then such an activity will have three aspects: motivated learning according to a project strategy; creation of tools and conducting research within the framework of the ongoing educational project; creation of a practically useful educational resource. The range of problems in the design of the screen interface, accompanying substantive and non-substantive factors of the digital environment is quite wide and provides an opportunity for a variety of research tasks. At the same time, the tasks are quite accessible to students of different pedagogical specialties. Results. Examples of completed work by students on the creation of educational instrumental sites on the topics of mathematics and computer science are given. Observations of their educational activities showed high creative and cognitive activity, enthusiasm, the ability to find the necessary information, the desire to independently conduct their own research, and be proud of the resulting useful dual-use product. Conclusion. The proposed technique for completing assignments related to teaching students to create dual-use educational sites (web resources) allows you to form and develop their research abilities.