PROFESSIONALLY ORIENTED SCIENTIFIC AND RESEARCH ACTIVITY OF STUDENTS AS AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF COMPETENT SPECIALIST TRAINING

The issue of the development of research skills and the organization of research activities of students of higher education institutions is multifaceted. Currently, one of the leading global trends in university education is the integration of the research component into the process of training of future specialists. The purpose of the article: to consider the features of professionally oriented scientific and research activity of students. Research methods applied: theoretical analysis of scientific sources on the issue of scientific and research work as an important component of the training of higher education institutions students; critical and analytical analysis of concepts, theories, and methods. Professionally oriented research work includes observation, study of facts and phenomena of professional reality; awareness of professional issues, their analysis; developing a goal and setting tasks; proposing hypotheses, choosing research methods; theoretical problem solving; and evaluation of the obtained results by the goals set. The main functions of professionally oriented research activity are: social; intersocial; systemic; integrative; modeling; information; communicative; technological; motivational; developmental; and reflexive. The outlined content of the functions of the research activity allows us to distinguish and analyze certain personal qualities, as well as several research and professional knowledge, abilities, and skills. An important component of research activities is an emotional attitude to the R&D. The search for approaches to solving the task is additionally regulated by emotional assessments that are formed as a result of the task and can change repeatedly. Awareness of future professional activity is decisive: the activity of students in scientific research depends on how they imagine their profession and whether they consider the skills of research work as a component of specialist competence. A necessary quality of researchers is sociability and independence.