Formation of Future Teachers’ Motivation to Research and Experimental Activity at School

Abstract

The paper considers the issue of a motivation formation of students of pedagogical specialties to professional research activity. The paper shows the data which were got as the result of doing a large-scale and a local stating experiment which preceded a forming pedagogical experiment, and also the criteria, indicators and levels of formation of students’ motivation to research and experimental activity developed by the author for the efficiency assessment of the forming experiment. The author focuses her attention on three motivating factors which were especially effective in the course of formation of students’ motivation to research activity. The network interaction of the higher education institution with the basic school, the system of creative (including research) tasks, the organization of the educational and research practice of students within the network interaction with school refer to them. The data which were got as the result of the forming experiment testify to good dynamics of the students’ movement from the average level of a motivation formation to research activity to the high level and from the low level to the average one. It was reflected in the noticeable increase in a group of students with the high level of a motivation formation to research activity (17,48%); the essential reduction of students entering into a group which is characterized by the low level of a motivation formation to research activity (by 22,67%).

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s3p59