The formation of the research competence of students in higher education should be purposeful and
systematic, since research competence becomes an integral component of the general and professional
training of a future specialistwithin the framework of the competency-based approach.The article is devoted
to the problem of developing and introducing into the educational process a structurally meaningful model of
formation of research competence in students at laboratory workshops in biology. The meaning of the
concept“model” is revealed, which is considered as a standard, representing a guideline in the
systematization of informationregarding the process under study and reflects the course of the process of
forming research competence among students. The developed model of the methodology for the formation of
the research competence of biology students combines a combination of a set of target, content,
proceduraland evaluatively- effective components and reflects the system-forming connections between
them.