Higher education institutions, being the centers of creation of innovative educational concepts, are in constant search of the optimal route of development of creative qualities of the individual. At the same time, the urgent problem is the awareness of students of the values ​​of innovations, actualization of research abilities, unrealized resources, self-development in scientific activity.

The scientific and innovative potential of students is considered as a complex integrative characteristic of the individual, including: the abilities and resources of the individual, allowing to generate innovative ideas, the ability to correlate internal possibilities and conditions of activity, to analyze situations of the scientific space.

The purpose of this study is an experimental evaluation of the features of development of scientific and innovative potential of students.

Research participants: 4th year students, 1st year master's students of the International Kazakh-Turkish University named after H. Yasawi, scientific supervisors of student and master's theses of the Kazakh National Pedagogical University named after Abay. The research instruments were self-reporting scales and questionnaires.

The article presents the results of the ascertaining experiment, convincingly indicating the manifestation of students' interested attitude to scientific and innovative activities and the need for its special organization at all levels of pedagogical education