Development of student team competences with potential to be utilized in practise

Abstract

Modern approaches to education at universities press for an increase in the proportion of independent work of students and their participation in real-life tasks and scientific procedures. This effort is directly proportional to increasing demands on students, their experience and practical skills. On the other hand the need for development of scientific and research activities together with requisite economic behaviour of universities is on the increase. This paper is a report on the study focused on determination of differences, common behavioural characteristics and attitudes of students in various stages of a project processing. Further the study is concerned with competences of students in different grades of education, their motivation and attitude to work on the assigned tasks. It also detects an impact of students’ study structure on their performance and quality of their work and analyses students’ behaviour. On the basis of the qualitative analysis the study deduces incentives for an optimization of student team structure as a self-contained unit qualified for working on the real-life tasks taking into account specifics in arts oriented schools. © The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology.