EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE FORMATION OF STUDENTS’ INTEREST IN THE LEARNING PROCESS

The article reveals the course and results of an experiment aimed at developing effective ways of successfully forming interest among students of general secondary education institutions in the learning process. The experimental base of the study was the Sumy specialized school of I-III degrees No. 15, where the experiment took place in natural conditions, without violating the logic and sequence of the curriculum of the discipline, during the 2022-2024 academic year. The practical significance of the obtained results of the study consisted in the identification of ways of organizing the dynamic process of forming cognitive interest in students of special education. Experimental research was conducted at the ascertainment, formative and control stages. At the ascertainment stage, the methods of survey, questionnaire, conversation, observation, analysis and generalization of the results. The content of the formative stage consisted of the stages of the work carried out, namely: creation of conditions for the emergence of students’ cognitive interest in the learning process. Among the methods of forming the actual cognitive competence of schoolchildren, the study used the adoption of an attractive goal, group and pair work, interactive methods, in particular brainstorming, game-based learning activities were actively implemented, success situations were created, and a large amount of visualization and handouts were used. Stimulation of schoolchildren’s work was carried out both during school hours and outside of school hours through the organization of non-traditional forms of education, in particular quiz lessons and interactive lessons. The work carried out contributed to the fixation at the control stage of the experiment of quantitative and qualitative indicators of increasing the level of interest in learning.