Dr.Hab., Professor T.I. Shukshina¹
PhD, Associate Professor P.V. Zamkin¹
PhD, Associate Professor V.V. Miroshkin^1
1Mordovian State Pedagogical Institute named after M. E. Evseviev, Saransk

Objective of the study was to provide theoretical and experimental substantiation of the role and significance of research competitions within the professional teacher training system of Physical Education Department students.
Results and conclusions. At Mordovian State Pedagogical Institute named after M.E. Evseviev much attention is traditionally paid to the professional physical education teacher and coach training. The university has a multi-level training system aimed to improve the quality of the educational process, its practical orientation, and consistency in the educational and research processes. Among its elements, a special place belongs to the student research competitions. Having emerged as a form of encouragement of students’ research activity, they quickly proved to be an important mechanism of formation and rating of the students’ research competency level. The Physical Education Department was among the first structural units of the university that used the potential of research activities to solve a wide range of current problems and tasks of the physical education teacher and coach training.
This article is devoted to the analysis of the educational capacity, role, and importance of research competitions for enhancing the vocational training system of the Physical Education Department students. The results of the exploratory-experimental analysis showed that the complex and multi-level organization of student research competitions is related to the elements of the Physical Education Department student training system. In particular, it makes it possible to add more meta-subject project and research competences building focus in the educational programs, personalize educational trajectories, expand the methodological training of students, develop subjective activity and self-learning skills, which is important for improvement of the quality of higher education.

Keywords: research developments, research competency, professional teacher training system, Physical Education Department, teacher training institute, research competitions.

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