The model of expert assessment of cognitive determinations of professional development of youth is constructed taking into account the provisions of the cognitive theories of education. An expert assessment involves measuring the degree of significance of cognitive parameters that are consistent with the scales of the following techniques and questionnaires: The Learning Style Inventory – LSI, David A. Whetten; Style learning options (A. Salomon, R. Felder); Register of Forecast Types of Assimilation of Information (A.R. Gregos); Scale of self-assessment of metacognitive behavior (Lacoste, adaptation of O.V. Karpov); Metacognitive properties of personality (D. Everson); Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire – FFMQ, Baer et al., 2006; Types of knowledge transfer; Anti-tightness test (prognostic competence); The style of self-regulation behavior; Excitement to implicit theories and learning goals, Dweck; Self-determination. Self-efficacy; Control over the action (Kul).