Content and Functions of Independent Work of Students

The paper shows that independent work of students in current conditions has acquired the status of one of the critical forms of organization of students’ activities aimed at the development of graduates’ readiness for permanent self-development as a necessary condition for successful adaptation in a continuously changing educational, professional, and social environment. The structural components of the independent work of students as a type of educational activity carried out by students as indirect management from teachers are also revealed. The pedagogical conditions for increasing efficiency of independent work of students also include a clear definition of places, goals, and objectives of independent work in the structure of educational process; use of methods for motivation of students to perform independent work; design and application of a system of successive complicating level of problems of competence-oriented educational tasks; as well as creation of information and educational environment.