EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AS A MEANS OF FORMATION OF EDUCATIONAL AND COGNITIVE COMPETENCE OF STUDENTS

More and more attention is being paid to learning and education in the information society. Modern adolescents have significant shifts in the processes of perception and thinking, motivational and emotional-will spheres, valuable guidelines, activity space and emotional stress. The most effective way to improve the quality of educational motivation of younger teenagers is to organize educational and cognitive activities at lessons as the implementation of the educational request helps to teach students to be independent, to create cognitive motives and research abilities, to initiate, plan, properly implement and evaluate the results of any activity. The article defines learning inquiring activities and describes how they can be applied in the school process, as they teach students to ask the right questions while planning, which will allow them to succeed in any activity both educational and outside school.. Educational and cognitive activity can change the way of perception of information and thinking of students, will teach to ask the right questions. The traditional learning system focuses on knowledge and skills development. At the same time, pupils often do not understand in what life situations they can apply the acquired knowledge and skills. In modern school planning for education with support on internal personal grounds will be more effective: it is necessary to start with a goal which will help to show the importance and applicability of educational material and modality of actions in life situations, then determine the most effective methods of action, the knowledge gained will mean the purpose and outcome of the training. Training in educational and cognitive activities can be related to training in the autonomy of students: the organization of research activities contributes to the formation of educational and cognitive competence among young adolescents as it develops stronger motivation, a high level of concentration of attention and critical thinking, it helps to focus on knowledge acquisition, positive attitudes towards teacher and classmate evaluation, and self-esteem. For effective organization of educational activities in 5-6 grades it is necessary to take into account psychological and pedagogical peculiarities corresponding to this age: Readiness and ability to expand knowledge, ability to identify personal and important educational tasks and find ways to solve them, adequacy in evaluation of results, desire of students to plan individual educational path, development of educational and cognitive activity in the process of educational activity, necessity to communicate with peers and interest in their assessment (at this age, it is important to focus not only on self-evaluation but also on mutual assessment), the formation of theoretical and critical thinking, purposeful perception, and the ability to concentrate attention. Learning to inquiry can help students "learn to study" throughout their lives, acquired knowledge and skills become a means of shaping students as active and creative personalities responsible for their choices. The knowledge and skills acquired become a means of shaping learners as individuals willing to make decisions and, analysing their activities and making changes to achieve the goal in the most effective way; besides, pupils become able to use thought and research skills in different spheres, new situations.