Abstract
The professional training of students is very important for education. Questions of the influence of cognitive-practical activity of students on a direction: efficiency of vocational training in the course of educational field practice is considered in the article. The authors applied a functional approach to the study of students’ activities during the field practice, which allowed determining the nature and direction of the work performed. Based on the level classification of the direction of activity, the authors identified four levels of educational work in the preparation and conduct of field practice (cognitive and practical activities); educational (low); educational and production (below average); scientific (average); scientific and production – a high level of students’ activity. As the motives determining cognitive-practical activities in the period of field practice, the authors identified 15 types of activities, which ware organized into 4 groups, determining 4 motivation levels. It was established that the direction of motivation for improvement is expressed in students of the scientific and production area, less pronounced among students who have chosen the academic direction.