The use of practice-oriented tasks to improve the concentration of attention in the process of information technology training of future teachers

The materials of a study devoted to the problems of developing the concentration of attention of a future teacher in the conditions of a modern information society are presented. 153 students of the branch of Russian State Vocational Pedagogical University in Nizhny Tagil participated in the study. Two groups of students were identified for the study — a control group and an experimental group. The study conducted diagnostics of the level of concentration of attention according to the Pieron-­Rouzen method at the initial and final stages of the experiment. To confirm the hypothesis of the study, Pearson’s χ2 criterion was used. In the experimental group, within the framework of the discip­line “Digital Education Technologies”, the educational process was built with the systematic inclusion of practice-­oriented tasks, the solution of which is personally significant for the student, allows them to achieve a conscious goal, the format of information presentation in the task corresponds to the features of the modern information space. Positive results have been proven in improving the concentration of attention of students in the experimental group.