GOAL-SETTING IN THE CONTEMPORARY EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT

Education is currently a social institution, which prepares a person for life. In Russia, educational reformation correlates with European educational trends. The existential aspects of human life are considered as a basis for any reformation challenges. The educational strategy of a society takes into account an exponentially increasing flow of research focused on goal-setting and a competency and competence in the changing socio-cultural, professional and educational activities. We conducted a study to explore the role of competencies and attitudes in shaping the goal-setting of a personality in the process of training. The object of the study was first-year students (45 pers.) of Novokuznetsk Branch-Institute of Kemerovo State University (NBI KemSU) enrolled in technical and humanitarian majors, aged 17-19 years; fourth year bachelor’s degree program students in technical and humanities majors (41 pers.), aged 20-22 years, as well as faculty (43 pers.), aged 25-55 years. The results of our study in a group of faculty have shown that the ability of the individual to goal-setting, according to the respondents’ answers, is influenced by: the need for originality (63%), the expansion of the sphere of influence of the individual’s activity (62.5%), previous experience (63.1%), motivational component of the individual's activity (50.7%), emotional and volitional characteristics (50.1%), and others. Goal-setting is described by respondents as a positive attitude to the activity itself (70.5%), to its assets (54.8%), to objective results (71.2%) mature professional consciousness (69.4%), and established professional attitudes (69.8%). The results show that the formation of competencies and attitude in the educational process is an important part of goal-setting.