The article considers the scientific category “educational and professional motivation of a student”, actualizes the problem of the development of dominant motivational formations of a university student’s personality, reflects the results of the analysis of the current state of development of motivation of university students to educational and professional activities. The paper presents the formulated conclusions based on the results of identifying the motivational characteristics of the educational and professional activities of university students
motivation, motivational characteristics, educational and professional activity, educational and professional motivation
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