Achievement Motive and Cognitive Stiles when Successfully Study Physics

The article describes the problem of motivating first-year students to study a complicated material of physics. The methodology of a team competition has been worked out to be implemented during the classes devoted to solving tasks in physics with the first year students majoring in engineering. Thus, special conditions are created for the student activity encouraged by the urge to achieve success. It has been shown that organization of a team competition in teaching physics helps students to feel an achievement motive in studying physics. The ways of forming the competing student teams have been studied in relation to sociometry and cognitive styles. The experiment results prompted the recommendations on forming the composition of competing teams in high schools and universities.