Abstract: the article is devoted to the problem of studying the motives for choosing a profession for older teenagers with different educational routes. A different educational route is considered to be one of the stages of professional self-determination after the end of the ninth grade, when a high school student must choose to continue studying at school or go to vocational education. The main question of the research about the need to compare the motives for choosing a profession in tenth graders and students is presented. The main tasks of the research aimed at comparing the motives for choosing a profession in tenth-graders and first-year college students and determining the absence of significant differences in the distribution of the studied motives are presented. In accordance with the relevance for professional self-determination of high school students, the main characteristics of motivation for choosing a profession are studied using standardized methods on a reference sample. The methods are aimed at studying the educational motivation of students and four groups of motives for choosing a profession.
In accordance with the goal of the study of the preferred motives for choosing a profession in tenth-grade students and first-year students of colleges, the results of the study are presented. The results were processed quantitatively, as well as processed using mathematical statistics methods. The results of the research presented in the article allow us to see the similarity of motivational choice in high school students and college students. According to the methodology of the study of educational motivation, minor differences in educational motives were revealed. The distribution of different groups of motives for choosing a profession for high school students and first-year students is almost the same.
The results of the study using two methods and a comparative analysis of the results are presented. The presented conclusions allow us to determine the similarity of the distribution of motives for choosing a profession among high school students and first-year college students. The results obtained allow us to form practical recommendations for building career guidance work with tenth-graders and first-year students.
Keyword: motives for choosing a profession, stages of professional formation, professional education, professional formation, educational route, external motives, internal motives, professional motives, socially significant motives, individually significant motives