Professionally oriented laboratory practicum in physics for engineering students

The subject of studying physics at higher school, in addition to the system of ideas about the physical picture of the world, is the methods of scientific knowledge, its general structure and components. This study is devoted to the problem of organizing and conducting professionally oriented laboratory work in physics for training the future agricultural engineers. One of the ways how to implement the requirements of modern society for the quality of fundamental education is the professional orientation of the physics teaching. Physics is the basic foundation for the study of professional training disciplines at higher education institutions. In the system of physics education, a teaching experiment plays an important role for the development of skills of applying theoretical knowledge to practical activities. Therefore, it is necessary to pay special attention to the educational experiment in physics in the system of the students’ professional training. This is what determined the main goal of our research: to theoretically substantiate and develop a methodology for the formation of professionally oriented experimental skills of the future agricultural engineers in the process of performing laboratory work in physics under the conditions of integration of fundamental and professional training. A methodology has been developed for teaching physics to the students of educational institutions that would correspond to the professional direction of the laboratory work of the discipline and would be based on the unity of the fundamental and applied components of the discipline “Physics” at higher education institutions. There was experimentally studied the efficiency of the developed methodology for studying physics in terms of organizing the laboratory work with a professional direction. It has been proved that the professional orientation of physics training changes the student’s attitude towards theoretical training, helps him to identify the dependence of the theoretical issues of the course upon his future professional activity, his formation as a specialist.