Abstract
The article raises the problem of low interest of students in scientific work. The question of the influence of motivation levels of engineering students on their interest in research activities is considered. Attention is paid to the potential of junior courses' block of natural science disciplines as the first step in a series of measures to attract students to research. An anonymous survey of three-year students of a technical university was conducted to identify their motivations for vocational training. An analysis of the results of assessment of students of different courses by levels of manifestation of motives is presented, with elements of author's scaling of empirical data. In order to obtain and analyse qualitative data, the results of the focus group method are presented. The pedagogical principles of early development of research activity are defined: systematicity, interdisciplinarity, variability. A significant time and organisational resource for conducting optional research activities was identified. They are the hours in the working programmes of general education disciplines, allocated for independent work of students. Organisational and pedagogical conditions and approaches for early involvement of students in research activities are proposed. It is noted that the proposed measures have been successfully implemented in Tver State Technical University. The obtained results do not contradict similar studies of other authors.
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