How to Educate University Students: Analysis of Students’ Attitudes to Forms, Methods, and Tools Applied within the Process of Education

AbstractQuality university preparation of students is a non-omissible part of the educational system of a wide range of countries which can significantly contribute to the increase of both social and cultural and economic growth of the later ones. Despite the constant ‘electrification’ of education, for example via e-learning, it is possible to say that the overwhelming majority of tertiary education is implemented in full-time mode. In the hierarchy of tertiary education, this form of study occupies an apparently unshakable position and is also stipulated in the legislation. Therefore, a wide range of methods and tools, the aim of which to develop not only knowledge but also skills and attitudes of students, are applied within the framework of the full-time study mode. However, a question suggests itself whether college students themselves perceive all these activities, methods, forms, and tools as equally important, or, whether it would be possible to identify any significant differences in their attitudes to and perceptions of various concepts associated with full-time study mode? That very question was explored by us within the framework of the implemented research, conducted via the method of semantic differential, the course and the selected results of which are presented in the submitted study