APPROACHING THE EDUCATIONAL VALUES OF THE STUDENTS’ AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL
Abstract
The general issue highlighted in this article is the importance of some educational values (respect, responsibility, cooperation) in assuring the efficiency of the educational process at university level and preparing these students for their future role of employees. Using a 23 items inventory, on a sample of 158 students, our research goal was to establish the most important educational values on which the students’ activity in the educational process at university level is settled up and to identify the differences between the first and third year students regarding these values. The results obtained sustain our hypothesis, supposing that students at university level have developed a high level of different types of educational values promoted in the educational process in which they are involved. But, these educational values were not represented at a highest level growth for the third year of study students opposite to the first year of study students. The conclusion of the study emphasizes the fact that that students have engaged in the educational process some educational values such as: respect for teachers or colleagues’ opinion and for differences between individuals, and it is very important for students to have more sustainment in their personal development based on: cooperation, responsibility and assuming the results of group work.References
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