ABOUT THE PLACE OF MOTIVATIONAL-AND-CONCEPTUAL CONSTRUCTS IN THE STRUCTURE OF PERSONALITY ORIENTATION IN JUNIOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS
The relevance of the study of motivational and semantic education among students in higher education as the initial stage of the formation of professional competencies is emphasized in the article. The results of the study of motivational and semantic formations of first-year students of engineering universities, descriptive characteristics of the prevailing components of the directional structure and the detected complexes are presented. For engineering specialties, the task of training is solved in accordance with the current federal state standard, provides for the formation of a multitude of competencies, both professional and general cultural, and is difficult due to the peculiarities of their value-semantic sphere. These features are associated with the direction of the emerging personality of a professional engineer and those requirements for the structure of professionally important qualities that are imposed by specialty. It is at the student stage that the correct assessment of the motivational and semantic components of the personality orientation is important. The study was attended by full-time first-year students of the Voronezh State University of Engineering Technologies. The sample size was 142 people. For data collection, observation and conversation were used, as well as a standardized method for diagnosing motivational-semantic formations of a personality. In order to process the results, the methods of mathematical-statistical analysis were used: descriptive statistics, comparative and correlative types of analysis. According to the results obtained in the orientation structure of the personality of students in the context of their motivational and semantic entities, a complex consisting of a high need to achieve, in relationships and a positive attitude to learning is revealed, which confirms the importance of a conscious desire to achieve high results in the context of a responsible and positive attitude to learning activities. This is an important component of the development of the personality of a professional, the first stage of which is high school education.