General educational skills of students as the factor of adaptation to academic activity in higher school

the article is devoted to the review of general educational skills of higher education students. The quality of general educational skills is regarded as an essential condition for the successful adaptation of students to higher school educational activities and the development of cognitive competence necessary for the implementation of formal, informal, informational education. The data obtained on the basis of the self-assessment of general educational skills by 1st-year students and by students of the 2nd and 3rd year, as well as undergraduates and post-graduate students at Petrozavodsk State University, are compared and analyzed. Questionnaires and comparative analysis were used as priority research methods. The results of the pilot study are presented in the article, during which groups of general educational skills (working with texts, with graphic information, searching for information, creating texts of a scientific style, communicative skills, self-organization skills) were singled out. The author put forward the assumption of the need for systematic study and monitoring of the students general educational skills for the organization of the educational process in university. In particular, such its component as independent work. Proposals have been made to continue the research and to modernize the independent work of students at the university.