CHARACTERISTICS OF THE HIERARCHY OF MOTIVES IN STUDENTS’ EDUCATIONAL MOTIVATION

ANNA ARAKELYAN, ANI AVAGYAN The article discusses the issues of students' educational motivation and the effectiveness of educational activities, presents the results of the research conducted among the students of ASPU after Kh. Abovyan. There were 115 second- and third-year students of the Department of Psychology of the Faculty of Educational Psychology and Sociology who took part in the research. In order to study the peculiarities of students' educational motivation, the motivation studying methodology was used for educational activities (changed by A. A. Ryan, V. A. Yakunin). As a result of the research data, the 5 main motivations of students' educational activities, which are considered to be most important for them, were identified, and the structure of educational motivation in general was analyzed.