Keyword: «motives for studying with students»

The article analyzes the results of an empirical study of the characteristics of the motivation for studying at a university for students of different profiles. The results obtained by the author indicate that the actual educational motives (cognition, mastery of the profession) do not always come to the fore, which can complicate the educational and professional activities of students and their subsequent entry into labor activity.

The article analyzes the results of an empirical study of the characteristics of the motivation for teaching students of a pedagogical university. The results obtained by the author indicate that a significant part of students have unformed and destructive options for motivation for learning (with a predominance of high or low indicators of educational motives, with an external orientation of motivation), which complicates the development of the profession.