Проблема систематизации предикторов академической успешности в современных отечественных психолого-педагогических исследованиях

Abstract

In the Russian educational system under modern conditions the search of ways to upgrade and intensify educational process is being performed. These ways are aimed at using personal potential of students while building on their essential competencies. A crucial role in this process is played by an opportunity to foresee the successful results of students in completing educational programmes that in its term, serves as the basis of their further studies in high schools and institutions of secondary vocational education. The group of prognostic predictors is formed by predictors of academic achievements including psychological, social, economic factors that influence the academic success of students. The research purpose is to analyze and group predictors of academic achievements in Russian psychological and pedagogical studies. Methods of theoretical analysis of psychological and pedagogical studies, devoted to the issue of revealing the importance of cognitive, personal, social and economic predictors of academic achievements of students have been used: comparison, generalization, systematization and concretization. Predictors of academic achievements have been classified according to the analysis of prioritizing directions of academic achievements’ factors. It has been concluded that attention focus of modern Russian scholars has been shifted from cognitive and motivational predictors to personal, social and psychological as well as economic predictors as being equally important in the process of creating models that enable to successfully foresee the degree of academic achievements of students. The cognitive (intelligence level, operating memory, creativity, etc.) and personal predictors (motivation, self-regulation, self-control, persistence) are as important as such predictors as relationship in the paradigm “teacher–teacher”, “teacher–student”, social and psychological class climate, social and economic school arrangement.