Evaluation of school students' cognitive status and psycho-pedagogical optimization of their cognitive activity

Abstract

The article deals with the issue of effective teaching of students of general secondary education institutions of dif-ferent types and also its connection with the levels of the development of their cognitive skills (auditory and visual memory, attention, verbal-logical and visual-figurative thinking as well as the quality of mental processes). The relevance of the research is due to the need for diagnostics of the cognitive processes at the early stages of learning, development of the methods of student-centered education and stimulation of the students’ cognitive sphere development in the educational process.