Introduction. The unprecedented economic and political pressure that Russia has been subjected to sharply raises the question of new principles and models for the development of the domestic system for training future leaders of science, ways to increase the competitiveness of scientists in a rapidly changing world. The authors propose to go from the content of the phenomenon of "scientific potential of the student's personality" and the assessment of the state of its development to the construction of a new educational model in which the ideas of integrity, cultural creativity, system genesis, dialogicity are implemented. Materials and methods. 1724 students of the humanities and natural-sciences and mathematical faculties of the Belgorod State National Research University (Russian Federation) took part in the experimental study. For data processing, methods of mathematical statistics were used: correlation analysis, calculation of the average statistical weight of one connection. Results. It has been established the presence of a high percentage of students with a reproductive level of development of the scientific potential of the individual (39%). There have been identified significant deficiencies in the technological readiness of students for research. It is shown the predominance of students with a creative and heuristic level of development of the scientific potential of the personality in the humanities in comparison with students of natural sciences and mathematical specialties. The greatest statistical weight in the correlation pleiade, compiled for students having creative level of development of scientific potential, has such an indicator as the level of scientific communication (k= 60; p<0,05). The greatest statistically significant relationship for the creative level of development of student’s scientific potential is the relationship between the level of scientific communication and the level of passion for research (r=0,685; p<0,05). Conclusion. The revealed signs-characteristics of the scientific potential of students allow us to give a level assessment of its development at the level of the past and present, as well as to design its further development. The development of a new educational model of vocational training at a university should be aimed at ensuring the subject-subject interaction of participants in scientific creativity in the research educational environment of the university, the development of research activities of students from cultural development to cultural creativity, pedagogical support for the creative independent advancement of the personality of students in the process of cognition.

The authors consider the process of teaching learners reading digital texts as pedagogical support for their search activity. Taking into account psychophysiological regularities and psychological mechanisms a teacher gets an opportunity to simulate the environment and conditions for learners to form implications, formulate questions and implement research and search for new questions based on the obtained results with the help of hypertextuality, multimedia and interactivity of digital texts in a real educational process. The purpose of the study is to identify a strategy for reading digital text. The simulation experiment for senior learners includes two opposite ways of teaching reading digital text. He/she had to start first with the short text reading, then with the corresponding picture and vice versa. The personal significance of the read text or picture, understanding of the text content and the accuracy of its reproduction were taken into account. Experimental evidence suggests the importance of using strategies for teaching reading a digital text as strategies allow the learner to act as a subject of attitude to the subject of knowledge. Teacher’s digital text-based sequencing of learning situations, based on the principle of integrity, provides a sequence of future-oriented behavioral acts in the context of neuroscience achievements.

The purpose of the article is to consider of the possibilities of using the Internet in the development of value orientations of Russian students in the course of heuristic cognitive activity. When polling a representative sample of students with a creative level of development of the research potential, we found that in heuristic cognitive activity when using the Internet, students are primarily attracted by unusual facts (45%), the ability to speculate about the meaning of certain concepts, statements and effects (34 %). A survey of a general sample of high school students (N = 2095) during a formative experiment with the participation of students in grades 8-11 revealed a wide range of problems of realization of value orientations and meanings of students in cognitive activity of students. These are the opportunities to study various theories on the Internet, problems in the implementation of value orientations and the meanings of the cognitive activity of students: from the possibility of studying various theories on the Internet and using them to explain incomprehensible phenomena, processes. Only 18% of students are always satisfied with the possibilities of the Internet in the heuristic cognitive activity of students, 43% of respondents are often satisfied, sometimes 34% of high school students; 5% of respondents are completely dissatisfied.