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3. Basic concepts and definitions

3.1. The Assessment Center is the most effective method of a comprehensive
assessment of the success of an employee /candidate / student, diagnostics of his
probable behavior through modeling and involvement in activities close to real work
situations.
3.2. competencies – the ability to use the knowledge, skills and abilities acquired in the
course of training in professional activity in practice;
3.3. doctoral studies – postgraduate education, the activities of which are aimed at
training personnel for scientific, pedagogical and (or) professional activities, with the award
of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (doctor in profile) with the mandatory acquisition
of at least 180 academic credits. The Academy provides training for professional activities
with the award of a doctor's degree in the profile.
3.4. doctor by profile is a degree awarded to persons who have mastered the doctoral
program in the relevant field of professional activity and defended their dissertation in the
Republic of Kazakhstan or abroad, recognized in accordance with the procedure established
by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
3.5. doctoral student – a person studying for a doctoral degree;
3.6. a doctoral dissertation is a scientific work of a doctoral student, which is an
independent study in which theoretical provisions have been developed, the totality of which
can be qualified as a new scientific achievement, or a scientific problem has been solved,
or scientifically based technical, economic or technological solutions have been outlined;
3.7. the scientific justification of the dissertation research (research proposal) is a
document prepared by a doctoral student and approved by the university during the first or
second years of study, including the purpose, objectives and methodology of the study, a
review of the literature and the expected results of the study;
3.8. the individual development program of the student (hereinafter referred to as IDP)
is a plan independently formed by him for the entire period of study with the help of the
program coordinator on the basis of the EP, and includes the following components: an
individual curriculum (IC), experimental research work, including an internship plan, practical
training (including industrial practice, program, base, deadlines and reporting form), the topic
of the master's project / doctoral dissertation with the justification and structure and plan of
the project / dissertation, the plan of scientific publications, including foreign, competence
growth and competence development plan.
3.9. individual curriculum (hereinafter referred to as IC) is a student's curriculum,
independently formed by him for each academic year with the help of a coordinator based
on the EP and the catalog of elective disciplines;
3.10. Master's degree is a degree awarded to persons who have mastered the master’s
degree program;
3.11. a master's student is a person studying for a master's degree;
3.12. master's degree is the level of postgraduate education aimed at training
personnel with the award of a master's degree in the corresponding EP with the mandatory
acquisition of at least 60 credits for a 1–year program, for a 2-year program at least 120
credits;
3.13. master's project is the final work of a master's student of a specialized master's
degree, which is an independent study containing theoretical and (or) experimental results
that allow solving an applied problem of an actual problem of a selected EP;
3.14. academic freedom is a set of powers of subjects of the educational process
provided to them for independent determination of the content of education in the
disciplines of the component of choice, additional types of training and organization of
educational activities in order to create conditions for the creative development of
students, teachers and the use of innovative technologies and teaching methods;