Why are inspections by the Moscow Center for Quality of Education necessary? Everyone who is involved in primary and secondary education has probably already heard about the Moscow Center for Quality of Education (MCQE) and thought about how objective the assessment of the inspection experts is. MCKO diagnostics have two goals: firstly, to allow students to practice taking the Unified State Exam and the Unified State Exam, and secondly, to check the quality of knowledge that the student receives from teachers and tutors. And here the question arises: why are some teachers and tutors so outraged by the introduction mandatory checks, if you are confident in your professionalism? It turns out that they lacked knowledge, and the inspections are to blame? I explain: the meaning independent diagnostics– to check not the student, but the quality of education he receives. MCCO diagnostics can be mandatory or voluntary. In the first case, students take exams within the school. In this case, the school pays for diagnostics from its own budget and selects subjects in agreement with parents. If parents doubt the impartiality of the school, they can contact the Center on their own. So if you are not sure about the quality of education or the objectivity of the assessment, take the opportunity and contact the Moscow Center for Education. This will help not only to find gaps in education and determine strengths child, but it will also greatly help him cope with the stress of a real state exam in the future.
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 implementing 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, ICCO plans to conduct a number of mandatory diagnostics according to 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 who participate in the project to organize specialized and pre-profile training in accordance with the main general education programs.
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 10th grade. 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 cells), 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) The 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 VMCO. 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 personal account schools.
Presentation video clip about MCCO:
The final work in the education system can be considered three types:
- administrative control and verification work;
- diagnostic and test papers, monitoring MCKO;
- final final exams.
Both have the same goals.
Firstly, the final work is designed to check the state of the quality of education in educational institutions.
Secondly, thanks to them, the actual level of knowledge of students in certain subjects is revealed, their theoretical knowledge and practical skills.
And, thirdly, the final work is aimed at monitoring the implementation of educational programs and calendar and thematic planning in educational institutions.
On the official website of the Moscow Center for Quality Education you can find all up-to-date information in the sections concerning monitoring and diagnostics.
Organization and conduct of administrative control and verification work in educational institutions
Carrying out final works must be strictly according to the schedule approved by the school director.
They are taught in all subjects, with the exception of music, visual arts, world artistic culture, physical education and the foundations of religious cultures and secular ethics.
The subject teacher decides what tasks will be in the work, but coordination with the deputy director for educational work is mandatory.
During the test, in addition to the subject teacher, there is an assistant of the same specialty or from the administration.
Students write their work on special stamped sheets. The assignment time is one lesson.
All work is handed over upon call, no one has the right to delay. If one of the students did not have time to write, such an assignment will be considered uncompleted.
The teacher and assistant must check the work within one day. Grades are given according to the requirements.
Diagnostic and control work, monitoring of MCKO
These types of checks must be planned in advance. Teachers and students must be notified no later than two weeks before the event.
Test works are checked by subject teachers within three days, and monitoring studies are analyzed at the center of the Moscow Center for Educational Education.
Educational institutions are obliged not to interfere with the conduct of such verifications, but, on the contrary, to facilitate in every possible way and organize them with the highest possible quality.
The results are discussed at pedagogical councils, information and recommendations are provided for further effective work.
Works are assessed according to the system the school uses. This assessment influences the final score for the intermediate assessment.
These types of checks make it possible to most objectively check the quality of students’ knowledge and the effectiveness of the delivery of knowledge by subject teachers. Schools can apply for independent diagnostics themselves.
Final final exams
Detailed information about this type of final work is presented on the official website of the Regional Information Processing Center of the city of Moscow. 
Official site Regional center Moscow information processing – main page On this site you can find all regulatory framework exams, schedule, results, training tasks, actual news, information about filing appeals. All information is reliable and up-to-date.
Today there are four types of final final exams:
- Final essay
- GIA, OGE and Unified State Exam
- Final essay
The final essay can be assigned to 11th grade students. If they participate in the State Examination individual subjects- Russian language or mathematics, then an essay at the end of 10th grade is not assigned.
The results of the final essay can be accepted as admission to the State Examination Institute or for admission to educational institutions higher education. It is carried out in those schools where graduates are directly trained.
- GIA, OGE and Unified State Exam
State final certification – general concept for the OGE and the Unified State Exam. In some sources you can find - GIA-9 (this is the OGE) and GIA-11 (this is the Unified State Exam). As the names suggest, these are final final exams for grades 9 and 11, respectively.
For delivery final certification students who do not have academic debt and mastered in in full curriculum. Grades in subjects must be at least “satisfactory”.
OGE or GIA-9 – main State exam, which is taken by schoolchildren completing the ninth grade. They are required to pass four subjects.
Without passing them, they will not receive a certificate, which means they will not be able to enter secondary technical educational institutions or transfer to the tenth grade.
The subjects required to pass are Russian language and mathematics, and the other two are at the choice of the student.
The rating must be no lower than “satisfactory”, that is, “3”. The grade on this exam affects the grade on the certificate.
The Unified State Exam or GIA-11 is an exam taken by eleventh grade graduates. It is called unified because its results are included both for assessment at school for the certificate and for assessment at entrance examinations in higher education institutions.
Knowledge on the Unified State Exam is tested from the fifth to the eleventh grade, so they can overlap with tasks in the Unified State Exam.
Schoolchildren also take four subjects, of which Russian language and mathematics are compulsory, and the other two are optional (physics, chemistry, biology, literature, geography, history, social studies, foreign language– English, French, Spanish, German, computer science and information and communication technologies).
Most often, graduates choose those subjects that they need to enter higher education institutions in order to reduce their time and not take them additionally. If you don't dial minimum scores, then the student does not receive a certificate, but graduates from school with a certificate.
The Unified State Examination is conducted on the territory of a school other than the one in which the students are directly taught, and by teachers from this school.
Moreover, the exam is conducted under cameras to eliminate any kind of violations both on the part of students and on the part of the organizers.
There is a strict list of items that you can take with you to class. Help from teachers is strictly prohibited.
Participants in the examination process will see all tasks for the first time in the first minutes of testing.
The teacher opens the package with them in front of the schoolchildren. Unlike OGE assessments here they are scored in a hundred-point system, where one hundred is the maximum score.
This exam is conducted throughout the country at the same time on the same day. Any “leaks” of information are strictly excluded; all of it is strictly classified. Students must submit applications to participate in the Unified State Exam in selected subjects before March 1 of the current year.
Once all applications have been submitted, an examination schedule will be drawn up.
The tasks are complexes of a standardized form, including test tasks and detailed written questions.
Students may be exempt from passing the Unified State Exam or OGE in specific subject, in case they are winners or prize-winners All-Russian Olympiads, members of Russian national teams participating in international Olympiads.
Additionally, it is possible to take exams on other days if the pass was due to good reason, meeting the requirements, or on one day on the schedule two subjects that were chosen by one student. For such cases, it is prescribed additional days certifications.
If a student does not agree with the grade assigned, he can file an appeal within the established time frame.
In such cases, a hearing will be scheduled at which the student, together with his teacher, will defend his opinion and, possibly, receive additional points.
All requirements for carrying out any kind of final work and testing comply with the requirements of the state educational standard at the federal level, documented in orders and regulations. Their implementation is strictly controlled.
This system of assessing students makes it possible to objectively and qualitatively test their knowledge and, accordingly, the effectiveness of school institutions.
On September 26, Kommersant Publishing House held a conference “Technologies in Education,” where Pavel Kuzmin, director of the Moscow Center for Quality Education, spoke about the role information technologies for quality growth mass education based on the experience of Moscow.
Among the participants are representatives of universities, commercial companies, heads of relevant departments, and journalists. At the event, issues of transformation and trends in education, the pros and cons of online education, public-private partnerships, etc. were discussed.
Of particular interest was the topic of informatization of preschool, secondary and higher education, within which the experience of Moscow was presented. “Since 2010, the Moscow Government has been actively introducing new technologies into education, supplying the most modern educational equipment. An IT infrastructure has been created in every school, and almost every Moscow school has access to the key capital project “Moscow e-school" More than 150 Moscow schools are equipped with modern medical and engineering equipment as part of pre-professional education. These are the services and platforms that, according to international research agencies, have no analogues in the world. No other metropolis in the world has such a unified electronic educational environment has not been created,” said Pavel Kuzmin, director of the Moscow Center for Quality Education. Mass quality education requires quality products, that should be high level from a meaningful point of view and have a convenient and understandable interface. “Why is MES strong? The basis of MES is the most serious, high-quality content made by Moscow teachers with serious external expertise. Sometimes I see the most beautiful product, the most beautiful packaging, but the content is completely empty. There are interesting solutions, but they are either for converting two-star students to three-year students, i.e., the tasks are quite elementary, or vice versa - for very gifted creative children. Electronic solutions that can be used for 100 thousand children are very important to us. And not one unique product with one solution option. It should be variable, adapt to the child, give him the opportunity to move in different ways. educational trajectories. Such a system, in principle, is implemented in one way or another at MES, but we are also looking for new solutions from partners,” emphasized Pavel Kuzmin.
According to him, there are a number of very important promising directions, in particular, electronic knowledge diagnostics, diagnostics with elements of virtual and augmented reality. Last year, at the international educational exhibition BETT in London, Moscow presented the world's first virtual diagnostics in physics, chemistry, astronomy and stereometry in VR format.
It was also noted at the conference that the introduction of new technologies resulted in an increase in the level of education in schools, as evidenced by the results of international studies of the quality of education PISA and PIRLS, in which Moscow occupies a leading position. “Day migration has become significantly less. Still, including electronic technology allowed almost every Moscow school to provide quality education. As a result - high density results of Moscow schoolchildren in international studies"- said Pavel Kuzmin.
Behind Last year Experts from more than 70 regions of Russia came to study Moscow’s experience in the field of education. Interest in Moscow and education is growing, as evidenced by the record-breaking visit to the Moscow international forum“City of Education”, which this year attracted more than 133 thousand visitors during 4 days of work.