Аннотация
The article examines the history of the study of the «Self» concept of personality and the process of professional training of students as a pedagogical problem of higher education. The features of using the methods of M. Kuhn and T. McPartland «Who am I» and A. A. Rean and V. A. Yakunin «Studying the motives of students’ educational activity» in the study of the «Self» concepts and their research capabilities, classification of modifications and methods of interpretation are revealed. The results obtained allow us to conclude about the effectiveness of these methods used in combination with other methods in the study of the «Self» concept of students in terms of vocational training. The sample consisted of 237 students of Pavlodar Pedagogical University and Kh. Dosmukhamedov Atyrau University aged from 17 to 23 years, from different courses of study. The subjects were divided into experimental and control study groups. The results of mathematical and statistical processing were obtained using the SPSS Statistics 21 software. The results obtained allow us to conclude about the availability, reliability and validity of these methods when studying the «Self» concept of a student in the conditions of professional training of higher education.