MTsKO (Moscow Center for Quality Education) – autonomous government agency additional vocational education Moscow. Created on October 20, 2004 by Government Order No. 2090.
The purpose of this organization is monitoring, diagnostics educational institutions; expansion of practical and theoretical problems related to increasing the effectiveness of assessing the level of quality of students’ knowledge, as well as the disclosure of their abilities; identification and training of the most capable youth representatives; improving methods of certification of various educational institutions; preparation and conduct of monitoring studies.
MCCS regularly conducts a number of events aimed at diagnosing the work of educational institutions. This contributes to the development of secondary schools, technical schools, universities and other similar institutions located in the capital. Thanks to such a system, the government can make more informed decisions on the implementation of reforms in educational processes, and students receive current knowledge and skills required for further development professionalism.
Types of diagnostics
In the period from 2017 to 2018, MCCO plans to conduct a number of mandatory diagnostics for the following types:
- mandatory diagnostics (grades 4-8, 10);
- remedial (grades 9, 10, 11);
- in general education subjects studied at a deep level for educational institutions participating in certain projects (medicine, engineering, cadet class);
- in professional educational institutions that participate in a project to organize specialized and pre-profile training in accordance with the basic general educational programs Oh.
Mandatory
Schedule of mandatory diagnostics for 2017-2018 academic year presented in the table:
| date | Class | Item | Form of conduct |
| October 12 | 9 | Mathematics | blank |
| the 25th of October | 9 | Russian language | blank |
| November 16 | 10 | Russian language | blank |
| November 23 | 5-8, 10 by draw | Russian language, Mathematics, Foreign language, Literature (6-8, 10 classes) or history, Geography (6-8 classes), Physics (8, 10 classes), Biology (7-8 classes, 10 classes), Social studies 10 classes. By lottery 3 days before diagnosis | computer |
| November 30th | 11 | Mathematics | blank |
| 5th of December | 10 | Mathematics | blank |
| December 13th | 11 | Elective subject: social studies, history, physics, biology, chemistry, computer science | Blank |
| January 18 | 11 | Russian language | Blank |
| February 27 | 9 and 10 | Diagnostics of reading literacy | Blank |
| March 1 | 9 | Foreign language | In OGE format |
| March 15th | 4-8, 10 by draw | Russian language, Mathematics (4-8,10), The world, Biology (5-8, 10), Geography (5-7, 10 grades), Social Studies (6-8, 10), Music (6), Physics (7-8, 10), Literature (6-8, 10 ), Chemistry (8.10), Physical Education (7), Information Technology, Life Safety (8), Computer Science (10) Subject and class are determined 3 days before the diagnosis | Computer |
| April 24 | 10 engineering | Mathematics | |
| 25th of April | 10 and 11 | Astronomy | Computer |
| May 15 | 10 Engineering | Physics | Computer form with completion of tasks with detailed answers on forms |
Optional
There are types of optional diagnostics. These include:
- V educational organizations who participate in the “Effective Primary School” project;
- thematic;
- meta-subject;
- subject.
Detailed schedule diagnostic measures conducted by the Moscow Center for Quality Education is possible.
For extra-budgetary educational institutions
For these institutions, MCCO offers 2 types of diagnostics: independent and within the framework of VMKO. The detailed independent schedule is presented in the following table:
| date | Item | Class |
| November 29, 2017 | English language | 5 |
| German | 5 | |
| French | 5 | |
| English language | 8 | |
| German | 8 | |
| French | 8 | |
| Meta-subject skills | 10 | |
| December 5, 2017 | Meta-subject skills | 4 |
| December 13, 2017 | Russian language | 4 |
| Mathematics | 4 | |
| January 23, 2018 | Computer science | 9 |
| Social science | 9 | |
| Chemistry | 9 | |
| January 31, 2018 | Biology | 9 |
| Physics | 9 | |
| February 1, 2018 | Russian language | 7 |
| Russian language | 8 | |
| Mathematics | 6 | |
| February 13, 2018 | Mathematics | 7 |
| Mathematics | 9 | |
| Russian language | 6 | |
| March 22, 2018 | Information Technology | 6 |
| March 28, 2018 | Geography | 7 |
| Biology | 7 | |
| Mathematics | 8 | |
| Biology | 8 | |
| March 29, 2018 | Geography | 6 |
| Story | 6 | |
| Physics | 8 | |
| Chemistry | 8 | |
| April 25, 2018 | Social science | 8 |
| Social science | 10 |
The schedule of diagnostics within the framework of VMKO is presented in the table below.
Submitting applications
There are 2 stages of application. The first stage (from September to November 2017) has already passed, but the second stage (from December to February 2017-2018) is still relevant. The application can be submitted on the official website of MCKO mcko.mos.ru and in the school’s personal account.
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Certification of the Moscow Center for Quality Education (MCQE) is carried out to establish the level of qualifications of the teacher, in accordance with the requirements qualification category– first or highest.
Main objectives of the assessment
The noted method of assessing the knowledge and skills of teachers has a number of main tasks.
1. Quality improvement pedagogical work and its effectiveness.
2. Determining the need for further certification in order to improve the qualifications of teaching staff.
3. Stimulating the continuous improvement of the level of knowledge of teachers, their professional growth And methodological culture, with the help of modern technologies.
4. Taking into account the requirements of the Federal State Educational Institution standards for the conditions for the implementation of educational programs when compiling a personnel list of any educational institution.
5. Finding prospects for using the main opportunities among educational workers.
6. Ensuring the proper level of payment for all certification participants.
MCED certification 2017–2018, monitoring and diagnostics of which provides an opportunity for employees of educational institutions to improve the quality of education, will 100% contribute to their successful development. 
Webinars and courses
On this moment we can already say that in the near future a webinar will be held on the basis of the Moscow Center of Educational Education especially for teachers, the main task which consists in the study and further use of independent diagnostics to identify students’ knowledge. The celebrated event will take place from January to May 2018. To learn more about the announced opportunity, you should use the online webinar service, which will help you learn useful and important information without leaving home.
1. A detailed review, as well as a study of all the actions necessary for registration at the 3rd stage diagnostics.
2. For students in grades 4–7, such diagnostics are considered mandatory.
3. Senior level, or rather, 10th grade, will take part in the survey only in accordance with the strictly marked direction. We are talking about specialized training in professional educational organizations, engineering and medical classes.
4. Studying the features of conducting such thematic works, as, for example, healthy image life. It is worth noting that the announced topic is mandatory for any Russian school.
A participant in such a meeting or webinar can be a deputy director, or a primary or secondary teacher at a general education institution. 
Diagnostics and monitoring
Now MCKO carries out a variety of independent diagnostics to assess the knowledge of teachers and their students. This order came from the Department of Education of the Russian Federation.
The described work is carried out through three stages, each of which is characterized by a number of personal characteristics. True, before starting diagnostic and control work in different cities, you will have to prepare in advance local acts. In the light of such information, it becomes clear that the primary task of the administration of all schools is to plan diagnostic activities, with the choice of their optimal number.
Stage No. 1. Apply for participation in events. Registration of participants continues throughout the fall. For a more effective process, it is better to familiarize applicants in advance with the information necessary for the webinar, and also adjust mandatory diagnostics for students of 9th and 10th grades in Russian language and mathematics. Today, a webinar is available on the history of Russia for grade 10.
Stage No. 2. Submitting an application in the second diagnostic level, taking place from December to the end of February.
Stage No. 3. Submitting an application for the opportunity to participate in the final stage of the event, taking place from March to April. 
Primary school diagnostics
If we take into account the initial level of training, a number of its own diagnostics and monitoring are provided for it. They will all take place in certain time, listed on the MCCO website. For example, in mathematics for grade 4, a planned diagnosis of teachers will take place on April 13, 2018. But why was this particular discipline chosen for assessment? What criteria were used for final choice? Everything is very simple! The choice of subject is carried out through a draw, which for next year will take place in March at a conference call of the Department of Education of the Russian Federation.
ICCO certification 2017–2018, or rather an autonomous state institution conducting such diagnostics, plans to create all the conditions for the further organization of various monitoring in the announced time period, according to current applications from educational organizations. We are talking about educating children on an extra-budgetary basis. 
Work related to the creation of diagnostic data, verification or processing of the result, as well as the preparation of special kits and payment for the work of independent observers, is carried out at the expense of educational organization who submits the application. You should definitely remember this feature.
The staff also understood the discrepancy between the amount of work and the allotted time, so they gave me an extra 10 minutes. After 55 minutes of work, I solved 24 tasks without checking. I handed in the work and came out in a terrible state, and told my dad about everything. Dad turned to the administration, and without any dispute I was allowed to write the work for as long as needed. I worked for another 60 minutes. It was uncomfortable: I felt like I was holding people back.
The answer form deserves special mention. It was standard, contained 26 points and did not correspond to the format of the work: in the number of tasks, in the absence of a form for a detailed answer. All this had to be written on the back in free form. At subsequent diagnostics, I was also given this form, and it also did not match the format of other work.
About a week later, we received an email with the diagnostic results (file attached). For each task, the table shows the topic of the task, maximum score and the resulting score. It turned out that I received a much lower grade than I expected. During the screening we were given assignments and my work; There were again no specifications and evaluation criteria. In many ways, my mistakes turned out to be stupid - I myself was surprised how I could write such a thing. We felt that some assignments were graded incorrectly and one assignment was not appropriate standard program. They were not allowed to photograph anything, and they were not provided with a copy of the work.
At home, we prepared and submitted an appeal by email, which remained unanswered. A little later we received a certificate (file attached), which indicated the initial result. They refused to give us a certified sheet with a transcript of the results.
It should be added to the above that the inability to analyze errors at home significantly reduces the educational benefit of such diagnostics. I was well prepared for the diagnosis, there is no doubt about it, and I was counting on a “5”. The first time the impression was so bad that I didn’t want to come there anymore.
Let us note that during this diagnostic, the administration and staff were interested in us, as CO-workers. We were given a personal registration sheet, we were open to dialogue, and we met halfway in everything that was not prohibited. Then the situation changed, but more on that next time.
The Moscow Center for Quality Education conducts every year a large number of inspections of educational institutions in order to monitor the effectiveness of education and identify gaps in educational process.
The highest quality are independent diagnostics from educational institutions. They are also the most popular.
Each school has its own internal monitoring of the quality of the educational process. All tasks (dictations, test papers) are prepared by the teachers of this school, and they also check.
As a result, a subjective assessment is created, which can sometimes differ from the actual picture.
Independent assessments make it possible to create an objective situation on this moment, and also allow you to compare the successes of schoolchildren from one educational institution in comparison with another.
Analysis of identified errors allows you to quickly and timely correct the educational process, eliminating all shortcomings.
Schools independently decide which diagnostics to sign up for and how many classes will take part.
The administration has the opportunity to choose the time in advance, since all diagnostics are carried out according to an annual plan.
Unfortunately, very often situations occur that schools only submit one, the best class, for diagnostics.
In this way they try to present their school with the best result.
But here you need to understand that diagnostics is not a competition, but a tool to help improve the quality of the educational process.
First of all, these types of inspections are needed by the schools themselves, and not by the education quality center.
In addition, it is possible not to save data in the school portfolio. Within two weeks, the school can analyze the results and make a request to the MCCS not to save them.
This opportunity is especially important for teachers who will soon undergo certification for a higher category, which necessarily takes into account the assessment of the activities of the class in which they teach.
Parents can see information in their personal accounts about what subject the diagnostics were assigned for and when. This way they can help their child prepare.
Carrying out diagnostic tests
Carrying out diagnostics is a paid service. Therefore, if problems arise at the school on the day the inspection is scheduled, and they ask to cancel it, then funds will have to be paid again for a re-diagnosis.
First of all, you need to understand that information on the prescribed diagnosis appears on the official website of the MCCO a month before its appointment. There is also a demo version there.
The teacher needs to familiarize himself with all materials. Next, it is imperative to prepare students. One of the preparation points is filling out answer forms.
Absolutely all students, before the test, must clearly understand how to fill out the form correctly.
This is very important so that there are no stupid mistakes. Instructional and methodological materials appear on the site, available to teachers and schoolchildren, as well as webinars, the schedule of which is in the “monitoring and diagnostics” section (this section will be discussed below).
Webinars are good because in addition to receiving information, you have the opportunity to ask all your questions online and get complete answers to them.
After the verification, the results will be uploaded to the school’s personal accounts. They can be analyzed and the teacher’s work adjusted.
The results of the test may be considered unreliable if violations were identified during the process (according to independent experts) or if there were a large number of corrections in student answer forms.
Official website of MCCO
All information about monitoring and diagnostics is on the official website of the Moscow Center for Quality Education.
It can be found in three sections:
- "To the leaders."
- "To the teachers."
- "To the parents."
But in all cases there will be a transfer to the page - “Managers” - “Monitoring and diagnostics”.
This section contains basic information and links to specific types of checks.
The basic information includes contact information, diagnostic stages, links to instructional and methodological materials, information about each subject diagnostic.
Types of checks:
- National studies quality of education
- International comparative studies of education quality
- Computer diagnostics
- Basics of economic knowledge
National Educational Quality Surveys
When you open this section, information about three types of assessment appears:
- All-Russian testing work;
- National Educational Quality Surveys;
- Study of teacher competencies.
All-Russian verification work has been carried out since 2015 in order to ensure unity educational space RF and support for the implementation of the Federal State Educational Standard.
In essence, these are tests for individual assessment of schoolchildren. In general, an objective analysis of the quality of education is obtained at the intermediate stages of education, and not at the end of the year.
When carrying out such work, they use common standards carrying out, testing and evaluation in all regions of the Russian Federation, they are set out in the order of conducting the GRP.
During the conduct, third-party participants, most often from among parents, are invited as independent observers.
National studies of the quality of education have been conducted since 2014. The NIKO program represents individual research projects on specific items at a specific time.
Projects - work on academic subjects, surveying students and collecting information about the learning process.
The purpose of NIKO is to identify students’ subject and interdisciplinary skills and the maturity of educational actions.
NICOs are carried out strictly according to the schedule, anonymously, there is no connection to student data. The selection of educational institutions occurs at the federal level by the program.
The results are used to assess the quality of the education system as a whole, and not the performance of a particular school or its teachers. These checks are carried out annually, and the results are discussed at conferences on assessing the quality of education.
The study of teacher competencies has been carried out since 2015. The initiators of such checks are federal Service on supervision and control in the field of education (Rosobrnadzor).
The goal is to evaluate and suit teachers for their position and category.
The education of schoolchildren should be carried out only by professionals who strive every day to improve themselves and improve their competencies.
At the moment, there are no uniform mechanisms for the Russian Federation to ensure the quality of teachers’ work. This type of assessment is aimed specifically at achieving unity in this problem.
The essence of IKU is the anonymous completion of questionnaires with professional and sociological issues. The results are used to polish the education system, and not to evaluate a particular school and its staff.
International comparative studies of education quality
Here is information about research on international level, comparison of education systems from different countries in order to identify gaps in the Russian system, taking innovations from other countries.
This section includes several programs:
- International comparative study“Studying the Quality of Reading and Text Comprehension” PIRLS - comparison of students’ reading level and text comprehension primary classes V different countries peace. Research is needed to understand differences and effectiveness different systems education. Conducted once every 5 years since 2001.
- International Assessment Program educational achievements PISA students– assessment of the educational achievements of students who have reached the age of fifteen. Within this study knowledge and skills used in life are assessed in three areas - “reading literacy”, “mathematical literacy”, “ science literacy" Held every 3 years, starting in 200.
- The international program for assessing the educational achievements of students PISA based Test for Schools is an addition to the previous program. Answers to the same questions but with the aim of identifying students’ readiness for full functioning in society.
- Comparative quality study general education TIMSS comparative assessment preparing fourth and eighth grade students in mathematics and science. Held every 4 years since 1995.
- Comparative study of the quality of general education TIMSS –Ad Advanced – study of graduate training high school students studying mathematics and physics in depth. These two subjects are priority in terms of intellectual preparation of students. Such studies were conducted in 1995, 2008 and 2015.
- International Computer and Information Literacy Study ICILS - a study of students' knowledge, skills and abilities in computer and information literacy. Eighth grade students are assessed. The study was conducted in 2013, the next one is planned for 2018.
- International Study on 8th Grade Civics Education educational institutions ICCS - assesses the readiness of schoolchildren to become citizens of their country, their attitude towards their civic duty. Research has been carried out since 1999.
- TEDS-M international research in systems studies teacher education and assessment of the quality of training of primary and secondary school teachers in mathematics - carried out in 2008. In addition to current teachers, students of higher educational institutions - future teachers - took part in the study.
- An international study of teaching and learning systems was carried out to monitor the school environment and the conditions under which teachers work. Research has been carried out since 2008.
In this section, a small material is given about each program, which describes the implementation process and the results obtained. A link to the source is also provided, which the user can consult if necessary.
Computer diagnostics
When you open this section, you are offered to take training tests in subjects. Anyone can take advantage of this opportunity. It is very important to test your knowledge before independent diagnostics. Each user has their own password and login, which indicates the confidentiality of information.
Basics of economic knowledge
If you select this section, then the system offers to solve the demo test by financial literacy. IN modern world It is very important to be financially literate.
The banking sector, as well as in general economic life, is developing.
Now financial services are available to schoolchildren over 14 years of age. At this age, they can already open accounts (of course, with the consent of their parents or their representatives), use bank cards, and open deposits.
Therefore, everyone should have the basics of knowledge in order to properly manage in cash and preventing financial fraud.
Monitoring and diagnostics are very important view activities of the Moscow Center for Quality Education.
Thanks to him teaching staff schools can timely monitor gaps in their educational process and effectively eliminate them.
Despite the fact that the service is paid, its significance is great and undeniable. That is why all schools, without exception, use independent diagnostics.