Matveeva

The necessity of development of students’ vocational thinking culture was described in this article. Besides, the author gives a definition of the "vocational thinking culture" concept and presents its components specifying the structure of this concept. The author also describes criteria, indicators and characteristics of levels of vocational thinking culture development; some testing materials were used to find out the level of vocational thinking culture and some results of the experiment at considering and evaluation stages of the experimental work were included in the article. The testing materials described in the work allowed to determine students’ levels of development of the vocational thinking culture. The developed criteria and indicators are of theoretical and practical importance for further research of vocational education problems.