The students' research competences formation on the master's programmes in pedagogy

Abstract

The study area is to form research competences for Master's students in the process of mastering the educational programme. The aim of the study is to justify the model to form research competences and the mechanism for its implementation in the process of professionally-pedagogical training. The research uses methods, such as content analysis of texts for professional standards such as Teacher & Specialist in education/Mentor. The method of determining the type of personality subjective relation with the environment, modeling a research University environment, and comparing Federal state educational standards for the educational level of undergraduate and graduate programs. The study was conducted at the Tyumen State University (Russia) in 2015-2017 in the framework of the Master's program in Pedagogy. The system of accompanying the research of the master students was introduced. Assessment of its effectiveness was carried out according to the master's theses defense reports. The conducted research allows us to present and describe the model for student research competences formation in the process of implementing master's programmes. Model components are the forming of a social request based on the order from the employer and the introduction of research results into practice, creating a research module to elementary-wise refining steps required for entry into the research activities, saturating all academic disciplines and practices with research content to include students in the completed research cycle, and immersing students in the academic university environment in order to enrich it with the forms of research activities. The conducted research has shown the effectiveness of the model for the formation of research competences. This model is implemented through the following mechanisms, such as individual support for students' research activities based on the type of subjective connection of the individual with the environment, work at the employer's request and immersion in the academic environment. Under these conditions, the inclusion of students in research raises the training quality of teacher's education. Our research has shown that the developed model of the research competencies formation is successful.