Assessment of conformity to the studies of motivation for selecting the studies among the students of tourism and sports management programme

Purpose of research — to assess the conformity to the studies of motivation for selecting the studies among the students of Tourism and Sports Management program. Tasks: 1. To identify the motivation of students of Lithuanian Academy of Physical Culture for selecting the studies of Tourism and Sports Management program. 2. To identify the qualitative factors of the Tourism and Sports Management program. 3. To identify the quantitative factors of the Tourism and Sports Management program. Methods of research: analysis of literature sources, questionnaire, mathematical statistics. The analyzed group: students of the second, third and fourth courses of Lithuanian Academy of Physical Culture (n=102). Results of research. The most important motives for the respondents in selecting the studies of the Tourism and Sports Management program was the fact that the future profession (8.34—8.87 points) and the specialty (8.19—8.28 points) is interesting for them, it matched the hobbies of the respondents (7.38—8.84 points) and their needs (7.07—8.10 points), it was most interesting (7.79—8.71 points), for some students, the location of studies was convenient (3rd course — 7.45 points). The following motivation had no influence in selecting the studies of the Tourism and Sports Management program: insufficiently high grades of previous completed studies (1.03—1.76 points), family traditions (0.55—0.93 points), intention to study with a friend (0.42—1.17 points). When assessing the qualitative factors of the Tourism and Sports Management program, the respondents noted the professional use of certain subjects of studies, quality of content, transfer of knowledge (micro-economics, macro-economics, tourism resources, theory of organizations, business law, finance studies, foreign languages). Only the respondents of foreign language lectures wished to have more credits than was stipulated in the program, and they were satisfied with the number of credits in other subjects, or wished them to be less. In the assessment of quantitative factors of studies, the following were evaluated as the best: academic relations with co-students (7.88—8.24 points), regular attendance of lectures (7.41—8.17 points), common opinion about the curriculum (6.28—8.03 points), own interest in the subject (7.21—8.17 points), representatives of student group (6.14—8.02 points), tolerance and respect in audience (6.57—8.10 points), and the following were evaluated as the worst: disposition of time for individual consultations (4.15—5.55 points) and promotion of scientific criticism (4.79—5.34 points)