The impact of personal values on the learning process and student accomplishments

Abstract

Personal values play a vital role while utilizing learning approaches by individuals through their studies. Especially in higher education, those values substantially affect individuals' character in their learning community and eventually influence their academic accomplishments. Values manifest themselves in all elements of practical culture. In cognitive activity, they play the role of a reference point: it is more natural for a person to learn what is vitally important for him/her. The purpose of the research is to identify the life priorities and value orientations of modern students and its influence on learning process and student accomplishments. As a research method, the method of unfinished sentences was used, as a method of collecting information that allows us to identify various aspects related to the life values of students. The article considers the specifics of life values’ semantic content among young people, defines the terminal and instrumental values of students. The study novelty and originality lie in the fact that for the first time life values are considered in the representation of first-year students. It is proved that material security, as a value is practically not represented in students. For the first time, it was determined that the structure of young students’ terminal values includes family, education, and later career. It is revealed that success, as a value, from the point of view of students, directly depends on responsibility, performance, self-control. It is considered that the best job for first-year students is the one that corresponds to their emotional mood, is highly paid, and is associated with helping other people.