The impact of the project method on the development of leadership skills in students

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https://doi.org/10.17162/au.v12i2.1045

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project method, leadership skills, communication skills, organizational skills, motivation for success, volitional self-control, emotional intelligence.

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The article examines the influence of the project method on the development of students' leadership skills. Information on the use of the project method in high school and the details of the leader's personality development at the student's age are analyzed. A set of research methods was used: pedagogical experiment, test, observation, Student's t-test. The study involved 292 people. The predominance of average indicators of leadership skills of the respondents was revealed. Components such as motivation for success and volitional self-control were the least developed. The method of group projects has proven effective for the development of all the skills studied, except volitional self-control. The significance of all the changes detected is at the level of p = 0.05, which determines the need for further modification of the method used. The data obtained can be used in the practice of teachers and psychologists of higher education institutions (HEIs) in the development of students' leadership skills. Other perspectives for scientific research include studying the leadership competence of students and finding the correlation of leadership skills with structural components of personality.  

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2022-02-01

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Tyurina, V. O., Shevchuk, H. ., Kriukova, Y. D., Lukashchuk, M. M., & Savishchenko, V. M. (2022). The impact of the project method on the development of leadership skills in students. Apuntes Universitarios, 12(2), 179–197. https://doi.org/10.17162/au.v12i2.1045

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Vol. 12 No. 2 (2022): Revista de Investigación Apuntes Universitarios

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