STUDYING THE DEVELOPMENT FACTORS OF STUDENTS’ CREATIVITY BASED ON Q-METHODOLOGY

In educational science today, there are many studies on the factors associated with students' creativity using various research methods. A new feature of our current study is to use Q-methodology to explore the teacher's perspective on the factors influencing students' creativity in the teaching process. We investigated the views of 42 lecturers working at three universities in Vietnam including Hanoi National University of Education, Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy, National University of Civil Engineering. Results of Q-sort implementation of participants are processed using a special software dedicated to Q-methodology – Ken-Q Analysis version 1.0.6. The results of the study indicated that there are two factors affecting the development of the students' creativity. Factor 1 extracted was named as the psychological characteristics of the students themselves. Factor 1 with an eigenvalue of 22.79 accounted for 54% of the study variance and consisted of 23  lecturers defining for this factor. Factor 2 was named as characteristics of the teaching activity of teachers. It accounted for 8% of the study variance with an eigenvalue of 3.38 and contained 19 lecturers. These factors accounted for 62% of the total study variance. The results are considered as important suggestions for teachers and students to achieve the purpose of developing creative personalities. Moreover, this also is an instruction for educational managers to improve the quality of education at universities.

Development of future teachers readiness for academic mobility

The article deals with problematic issues of international student mobility of students as a means of professional and personal self-development of future teachers. The aim of the research is to determine theoretically and empirically the socio- managerial and psychological-pedagogical conditions for the development of future specialists in the field of education readiness to participate in the processes of international student mobility. Research methods: analysis of conceptual positions and a critical review of research on the problem of international student mobility, student questionnaires, methods of descriptive statistics. The results of an empirical study of incentives and inhibitors of future teachers ' participation in the processes of educational and scientific exchange between higher education institutions are presented. Based on the results of the study, the authors provide a justification for the need to develop systematic measures to overcome organizational and managerial, competence-activity, and socio-psychological barriers to international student mobility