Diagnosing general study skills in students of humanities
We are interested in the professional development of the students majoring in education, philology and psychology: how do they use general study skills working on the content of the expository text. According to students’ self-reports they single out the most important information in the text. We were interested in criteria used by students during the differentiation of the main information in a special constructed expository text. Three groups of subjects participated in the experiment. Total - 431 persons. Minority of the students monitor the effectiveness of their methods of learning strategies. Only 6% of majors in education, psychology and philology singled out as the main the description of the facts and their explanation. The rest ones prefer as essential information the sentences in the form of definitions, a historical fact and a statement of the significance of the problem. The results show that students do not manage metacognitive knowledge about the characteristics of scientific knowledge and effective strategies for their assimilation.