into the scientific task solving, that are the most vulnerable for the science; permanent
renovation and improvement of the knowledges; expansion of theoretical way of
thinking and scientific erudition of the future specialist.
Students’ scientific research activity should be focused on the development of the
system of intellectual creative qualities of personality: intuitions (a direct vision of the
essential things without reasoning); creative thinking (ability to produce new ideas,
hypothesis, methods of tasks solving); creative imagination (independent creation of
new characters that are realized in original results of activity); divergent thinking
(ability to find several ways to solve the problem and change them, see problems and
objects from different angles); originality of thinking (peculiarities of mental qualities);
thinking association (ability to use associations, analogies).
The distinctive feature of the scientific research is the unity of aims and directions
of educational, scientific and educator work, dense cooperation of all forms and
methods of activities, that are realised in the educational process and during the extra-
curricular time.
Types and forms of scientific research activity of students. In the establishments
of higher education there are two types of scientific research of students: educational
research activity according to the educational plan, and student’s scientific research
under the direction of teacher.
Educational research activity. This type of activity is obligatory for each student
and embraces almost all types of educational work:
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writing a paper on a concrete theme in the process of studying social-
humanitarian subject, fundamental and specialist oriented, special disciplines,
specialized and to choose;
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implementation of laboratory, practical, seminar and independent tasks, credit
tests, which contain the elements of task search;
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implementation of atypical research tasks during different types of practice and
personal tasks;
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development of the methodical materials using research methods (supervision,
questionnaire, conversation, etc);
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writing and defence of term and diploma papers related to the range of research
problems.
At the first stages of scientific experience acquiring the future specialist gets
acquainted with the approaches, methods and types of scientific research, basic
concepts of science, the rules of selection of necessary information and writing of
reports, essays, and reviews. On the second course students learn more about the
specialization of departments, take part in the scientific creativity project groups of
youth, task groups, moreover students may choose the certain theme for their research.
On the third course students write term papers of the educational subjects, accept the
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