DYNAMICS OF THE QUALITIES IMPORTANT FOR LEARNING DURING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF OFFICER CADETS
The article examines officer cadets’ activities in two aspects from the point of view of the system-genetic approach. On the one hand, the officer cadets receive professional training at military university, and on the other, they simultaneously serve in the army. The used expert evaluation method helps the author to determine the cadets’ qualities united into four groups: volitional, motivational, cognitive and communicative abilities. It has been established that some personally important qualities are being changed during cadets’ training, namely, responsibility, diligence, activity, purposefulness and communicative abilities. The analysed dynamics of average values of the qualities important for cadets’ training indicates that volitional psychological qualities increase steadily from the first to the third academic year. During the fourth academic year, volitional qualities decrease, generally, or remain at the same level. The cadets’ motivation gradually decreases during education. The indicators of communicative and organizational abilities remain at a stable high level during university training, and intellectual abilities are even higher than average. Thus, from the academic year to the academic year, the number of psychological qualities influencing directly cadets’ successful training increases. The volitional component becomes more important at the senior courses, but communicative abilities decreases. Of all the qualities important for learning studied at the research, only intellectual abilities are statistically significantly correlate with learning success during all academic years.