Opanasenko L. The psychological structure of educational goal-setting among high school students

The dissertation is devoted to studying the characteristics of the psychological structure of educational goal-setting among high school students. A theoretical and methodological study of the phenomenon of educational goal-setting was carried out. It has been established that educational goal-setting is a person’s ability to consciously determine their own learning goals, their coordination with other personally significant goals and an adequate assessment of the achieved and desired learning outcomes. It was found out that educational goal-setting among high school students acts as a process of determining educational prospects.A structural-functional model of educational goal-setting was developed for high school students, which consists of: blocks of educational goals (cognitive, cognitively-pragmatic, socio-pragmatic, formal) and blocks of psychological competence (cognitive,motivational, active, reflective, regulatory). The dominance of the block of educational goals determines t