Diagnostics Method of Learning Motivation in Pedagogical University Students

The authors developed and tested a method for studies of learning motivation in students of a pedagogical university. While developing the method authors considered the following theoretical studies on motivational structure of students in the university: T.A. Ivanova, A.K. Markova, V.I. Chirkov and K. Strcake The technique allows distinguishing three groups of motives in the external and internal learning motivation: admission to university, actually operating professional motives and their dominance, specification of learning motivation development level. The method also provides an opportunity to study learning motivation dynamics in the process of studying at a university. The diagnostics results indicate that the university has rather extensive reserves for motivating students to learning and requires thoughtful organizational and intense managerial and educational efforts by the teaching staff in order to provide competent effect on the increase of the students’ motivational structures in learning activities. The technique may be useful for studying relationship between motivation to achieve success, learning motivation and students’ adaptation to university, students’ value orientations in the process of studying; as well as a diagnostics tool in motivational trainings and in general for creating an outlook of personality’s social development. The technique may be used to diagnose learning motivation in universities with a different major profile if to adapt two statements to the university specifics.

1. Bogoslovskaya O. Motivaciya polucheniya vysshego obrazovaniya v kontekste vybora professii/ O. Bogoslovskaya // Vysshee obrazovanie v Rossii.- №5, 2006.- S. 44 -47.
2. Burlachuk L.F. Psihodiagnostika: Uchebnik dlya vuzov / L.F. Burlachuk.- SPb., 2006.
3. Gurevich K.M. Differencial'naya psihologiya i psihodiagnostika: Izbrannye trudy./ K.M. Gurevich.- SPb., 2008.
4. Dubovickaya T.D. K probleme diagnostiki uchebnoi motivacii/ T.D. Dubovickaya//  Voprosy psihologii.-2005.-№1.-S. 73-78.
5. Ikrin G.V. Osobennosti uchebnoi deyatel'nosti i professional'noe razvitie lichnosti studenta/ G.V. Ikrin: Avtoref. dis. … kand. psih. nauk. - Perm', 1998. - 23s.
6. Ket'ko, S.M. Edinstvo refleksii, motivacii i adaptacii v soznanii lichnosti / S.M. Ket'ko, S.A. Pakulina, A.V. Pominov. – Chelyabinsk., 2005.
7. Mitina A.M. Zarubezhnye issledovaniya uchebnoi motivacii vzroslyh/ A. M. Mitina // Vestnik Mosk. un-ta. Ser.14.Psihologiya.- 2004, №2.- S. 56-65.
8. Ovchinnikov, M.V. Dinamika motivacii ucheniya studentov pedagogicheskogo vuza i ee formirovanie / M.V. Ovchinnikov: Dis. … kand. psihol. nauk. – 2008.-159s.
9. Pakulina S.A. Adaptivnye sposobnosti studentov pedagogicheskogo vuza: struktura, faktory i sredstva razvitiya / S.A. Pakulina.- M., 2008.
10. Pakulina S.A. Psihologicheskaya diagnostika motivacii dostizheniya uspeha studentov pedagogicheskogo vuza/ S.A. Pakulina // Izvestiya RGPU im. A.I. Gercena.- 2008.- №12 (88).- S. 23-32.
11. Chirkov V.I. Samodeterminaciya i vnutrennyaya motivaciya povedeniya cheloveka /V.I. Chirkov // Voprosy psihologii. – 1996. - № 3. – S. 116-130.
12. Shtarke Kurt Studenty. Stanovlenie lichnosti. Perevod s nemeckogo / K. Shtarke.- M.,1982.- 136s.