Relevance. The article discusses the criteria for assessing the level of formation of the readiness of future lawyers for law-making activities based on the application of various scientific conceptualization methods. Understanding the effectiveness of ongoing measures of pedagogical stimulation is possible on the basis of generalization of information about the control of the level of formation of readiness for law-making activities, which is carried out using a set of criteria for its assessment.
Materials and methods. The main methodological approaches on which the pedagogical stimulation of the formation of students’ readiness for law-making activities are based are activity, comprehensive, systemic, axiological, sign-contextual and individually differentiated approaches, which are a necessary and sufficient basis for solving the problems of such a study. The main methods of obtaining and processing scientific information were: the dialectical and system method; systematization and conceptualization; generalization and classification. When substantiating the criteria for assessing the readiness of future lawyers for law-making activities, the starting point was the structure of the readiness of future lawyers for law-making activities.
Results. The study identified and substantiated the following criteria: cognitive-legal; orientation-value; activity-creative. The levels of each of the criteria are: familiarization and information; professionally necessary; optimal-sufficient. The general functions of the criteria under study include: teleological; structural and organizational; generalizing-analytical; evaluation-level; information and diagnostic. The special functions of the criteria are: reflexive-corrective and prognostic; orientation-value; logical and argumentative.
Findings. The practical application of the criteria for assessing the level of formation of the readiness of future lawyers for law-making activities can be effectively carried out using the principles of consistency, continuity, algorithmic, objectivity, and combination with other diagnostic tools.