Motivation research and development of educational and cognitive activity of technical university students

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of the motivation development of educational and cognitive activity of technical high school students. The article presents the results of the research on the motivation development of educational and cognitive activity of students of the direction 21.03.01 “Petroleum Engineering” of the Surgut Institute of oil and gas (a branch of the Industrial University of Tyumen in Surgut). As a result of the research, a method of stimulating the development of motivation of educational and cognitive activity of students was proposed, based on the combined use of interactive teaching methods with various pedagogical techniques. The article also discusses the characteristics of the students’ motives of their educational activities, as they directly affect the quality of professional training, the formation of the professional personality.