Organizing Students’ Independent Work: An Approach for Graduate and Undergraduate Students

Aleksandra Zakharova, Elena Soboleva, Galia Biserova

Abstract


In the modern educational process, the proportion of independent work for students increases. The aim of this study is to develop an approach to organizing student work based on their level of education (bachelor’s or master’s). Creating a new approach based on the level of learning is important because it will improve the quality of independent work of students and increase their level of motivation for independent learning. A survey study was carried out among 210 bachelor’s students (second year) and 60 master’s students (first year) to determine their preferences towards the structure and types of independent work and its assessment. (The total number of respondents were 270.) Respondents were selected based on their level of education. A total of 76 lecturers were also selected to take part in the study. In this paper, we describe an approach to organizing student independent work based on the survey results. We found that the independent work of undergraduate students consisted of working with given materials (80%) and literature searches (20%). Most of the lecturer respondents considered work with ready?to?use educational materials to be the most favorable for bachelor’s students (70%), with much fewer considering independent or mixed work to be more effective (8% and 22%, respectively). The final module testing includes the questions addressed in the classroom and the topics students studied independently. The practical significance is that the developed approach to organizing student independent work can be used by any institution of higher education within the Bologna Process.

https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.21.1.4


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higher education institution; independent work; methods of independent work

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