THE FORMATION OF MOTIVATION OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION STUDENTS TO THE INDEPENDENT WORK AS THE BASIS OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCES DEVELOPMENT

For successful implementation of the educational cognitive activity, a student has to possess a number of competences that includes, in particular, the ability to master new knowledge independently. Readiness for independent work is one of the most important conditions for successful educational activity. These circumstances lead to the conclusion that today the problem of formation of the students’ motivation to independent work is especially acute. The training as the presentation of system of knowledge transforms into the necessity of development of skills for the independent educational cognitive activity of the students.

Starting education in a higher education institution, a former school student deals with a number of new circumstances: sharp decrease of the level of external control over his independent activity, change of the educational activity structure (the specificity of educational process is that the in-class learning takes about a half of study time, and the students have to master a large part of learning material independently).

The ability to work independently helps students to develop mental set for independent systematic knowledge acquisition and the development of abilities to use scientific and public information while solving new cognitive tasks. The development of these abilities is promoted by the activation of the students’ independent work when they solve creative tasks useful for their future profession both individually and in-group.

The modernization of the Russian education provides the increase in amount of independent work and the strengthening of its role. Students have to form the appropriate competences, first during the extra-curricular individual work and to seize bases of the systematized knowledge.