Students’ Professional Motivation as a Means of the Improvement of the Quality of Their Training in Pedagogical Higher Education Insti-tution
The given article presents the process of studying the first-fourth year students’ professional motivation in three faculties of Ishim Teacher Training Institute named after P. P. Ershov (branch) of Tyumen State University: Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences; Social and Humanities Faculty and Pedagogical Faculty. All the students are trained in two directions: 44.03.01 Pedagogical education and 44.03.02 Psychological and pedagogical education. The authors consider professional motivation to be a set of the factors and processes which, being reflected in consciousness, induce and direct the personality to studying future professional activity. The early detection of the features of formation of motivation, according to the authors, will contribute to the quality of training in the system of higher pedagogical education. For the assessment of formation of the students’ professional motivation the following diagnostic tools were used: K. Zamfir’s technique “Motivation of professional activity” (A. Rean’s modification); T. N. Silchenkova’s technique “Studying the motives of the pedagogical profession” and V. A. Yadov’s technique “Studying the factors of the appeal of a profession” (I. Kuzmina and A. Rean’s modification). The authors are inclined to consider that motives are a mobile system which can be influenced on. And even if the students’ choice of the future profession hasn’t been made independently, then, purposefully, forming the steady system of motives, it is possible to help them in their professional adaptation and realization of their own requirements.