Students’ Independent Learning Activity as an Effective Method of Acquiring Professional Competencies

Abstract

The article represents the model of the organization of independent out-of-class students’ learning activities. The main purpose of the model is to stimulate students’ cognitive activity while transferring accent from the academic knowledge to making independent research and practical skills application. The model is based on the results of students’ psychological characteristics diagnostics that had been carried out by authors in the period 2016–2018 in order to define the features of personal motivational sphere. The model implies an application of project-oriented educational technologies based on the interaction scheme “teacher-student” and “student-student”. It is described the experience of model integration in the courses “Marketing” and “Mathematics in Management” for bachelor-students of the polytechnic university. Within the presented model, the training tasks are designed so that all members of the group are interconnected but at the same time independent in making research and solving problems.