HIGHER EDUCATION EFFECT UPON THE UKRAINIAN STUDENTS' EPISTEMOLOGICAL BELIEFS

The paper presents the results of the empirical research which concerned the problem of the Ukrainian university students' epistemological beliefs as developed under the influence of higher education. To achieve the aim of the research the first year students from Dniprodzerzhinsk state technical university and the graduates from the same university were questioned. The methods applied in the investigation are interview, observation and questionnaires elaborated by Conley, Pintrich, Vekiri, Harrison [1] and Colbeck [2]. The conducted research helped to obtain the data which demonstrated a shift in the development of some clusters in the structure of the students' epistemology in the end of the study at the university as compared with the results which were showed by the first year students. The difference in the data was statistically analyzed, and that proved the reliability of the results obtained.