eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Educational Research 2327-6150 2013-11-15 1 11 548 554 10.12691/education-1-11-16 EDUCATION201311116 article N.N. Kondrashov kondrashovmm@mail.ru 1 Department of Pedagogy, National University named after Bogdan Khmelnitsky, Cherkasy, Ukraine In this article students' success, their problems in the process of learning pedagogical knowledge, reasons of the low results, increasing of quality of knowledge with the help of role - situations at the pedagogical lessons are considered. There are different approaches to define the quality of future teachers' pedagogical knowledge in scientific literature. During the investigation significant differences were found in the quality of the implementation of all functions of the educational process, especially about the characteristic of wording and definition of problems, planning of their decisions. We found out that the effectiveness of educational work in teaching disciplines is mainly determined by the students' attitude to the pedagogical theory and realization of its importance in their future practice. The results of the establish experiment allow us to speak about the necessity to improve the quality of future teachers' pedagogical knowledge in the system of university education. One of the ways to modernize this preparation is the simulation of role-playing situations during teaching of pedagogical disciplines. These methods create conditions for the active cognitive activity, nonstandard solution of pedagogical problems, improve the quality of pedagogical knowledge and the level of readiness for future professional activity. http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/1/11/16/education-1-11-16.pdf pedagogical knowledgequality estimation of knowledgerole - situation