Abstract:

An essential problem of Russian universities is the growing educational failure of students. The problem connected with the transition of universities to online and remote formats, in which students showed a decrease in motivation, activity and dropped out of the educational process. In contrast, traditional pedagogical approaches are limited in solving students' problems.

The research aims to study pedagogical support strategies that can support students in solving their problems.

The main research questions:
1) consider pedagogical practices that university teachers use to prepare students;
2) identify ways of implementing successful trajectories by students.

The empirical basis of the research is research materials obtained within the framework of the interdisciplinary project "Transfer of human capital in educational communities: from failure to success", for this article, data from focus groups with students (n = 5) and expert interviews with university professors (n = 12), carried out in 2020-2021.

Results:
1. Pedagogical practices by university teachers are carried out depending on their ideas of success. The types of pedagogical roles aimed at the prospect of professional self-realization, academic achievements, educational participation, and adaptation of students are revealed. This problem is not always related to student expectations. In this regard, uncertain consequences arise to the extent of the success that students will achieve.
2. No more than 40% of university students pursue relatively successful educational trajectories. They are primarily determined not by pedagogical conditions, but by students' active and autonomous activity, by the presence of clear goal-setting and self-organization. Pedagogical practices that contribute to their implementation are associated with developing students' skills in working with information, self-organization, independent activity and work with the future.

Keywords:

University, teaching practices, subjective factors of success, intrinsic motivation, autonomy, self-determination.