The impact of psychological and learning training on educational motives and reflective skills of future IT specialists

Abstract

Nowadays, there are a lot of psychological and pedagogical research aimed to explore students’ individual characteristics and how to take them into account in educational process, as well as to develop new teaching techniques. In this study, we focus on future IT specialists’ internal motivation to continue education and training, internal motivation for professional activity as a software engineer, and reflective skills. We consider the impact of psychological and learning training on educational motivation and reflective skills of university students. We present pedagogical technique which involves motivational training, training exercises, and learning training. In particular, we give a brief description of author’s learning training on “NoSQL databases: MongoDB and ASP.NET MVC”. The results of pedagogical experiment conducted to evaluate effciency of this technique are presented. In experimental work 405 higher education students majoring in 121 Software Engineering, 122 Computer Science, 123 Computer Engineering took part. Based on statistical processing of empirical data, we made a conclusion about potency of our technique.