Students’ activity in modern educational space: psychological and pedagogical aspects

¹ Udmurt State University, Department of General Psychology, Institute of Pedagogy, Psychology and Social Technologies, Izhevsk, Russia
² Udmurt State University, Department of Social Work, Institute of Social Communication, Izhevsk, Russia
³ Udmurt State University, Department of Foreign Languages for Law, Economics and Management, Institute of Language and Literature, Izhevsk, Russia

¹ Corresponding author: vasyura@inbox.ru

Abstract

Over the last decade, the issue of student activity in the educational space is of growing worldwide interest from the academic community and practitioners. With the rapid growth of information and communication technologies penetrating all areas of life, educational space particularly, the research on diverse types of student activity has attracted the attention of international scholars. Student activity transfers to virtual space, so learning and communication activities are largely transformed. Thus, the academic community finds it crucial to analyze integrated activity. The research aims to study integrated student activity in five areas of life and identify its links with the orientation of their communicative activity. It engaged 104 undergraduates from Udmurt University and Medical College. The research was based on Volochkov and Popov’s method of “Diagnostics of student activity” and Vasyura’s method of measuring the orientation of communicative activity. Methods of mathematical statistics were applied to process the data. In student educational activity, three components of activity composition are correlated with the orientation of communicative activity. It is identified that student as an actor of educational activity is likely to be satisfied with academic success and efforts to overcome study barriers if he or she is oriented to actively interact with other actors of educational space. The data may provide a ground for devising a counseling programme to manage the development of activity in various areas of life.