International comparative studies of the quality of education. National Educational Quality Surveys

In order for every child in Moscow to receive a quality education, there is a special organization that carefully monitors this. The main tasks that the MCCE performs are to increase the efficiency of knowledge assessment, as well as to identify and train the most talented youth. Do not forget that this center is dedicated to improving the effectiveness of certification.

Activities of the Education Quality Center

The main task that the quality center confidently achieves is the formation of an effective regional assessment system. This will contribute to the development of schools and the general education system of the capital.

New technologies are regularly used in the practice of methods for measuring the quality of knowledge, which makes it possible to more accurately determine the nature of assessing the quality of education. Based on the results, conclusions are drawn and optimal measures are proposed that ensure the objective nature of the assessment of education. Among the main activities of the MCCO, the following should be highlighted:

  • conducting examination of educational programs;
  • ensuring the functioning of the vocational education system;
  • introduction into practice of highly efficient technologies and measurement techniques;
  • accounting, storage and write-off of licensing files of educational institutions.

Extra-budgetary services of ICCO

Services

Parents and teachers have the opportunity to use a paid service provided by MCEC. The portal contains specific information regarding the cost of each service, as well as telephone numbers to conclude an agreement for the provision of extra-budgetary services. They fall into three main categories:

  • "Independent diagnostics";
  • "Additional services".

MCCO additional services

The last item on the list includes the “Russian language proficiency exam.” This is necessary for those persons who need to obtain a residence permit or citizenship of the Russian Federation. Additionally, you can order services for analysis, examination and development of a quality assessment system. Control specialists will help you cope with any task.

Independent diagnostic centers

On the site, everyone can find a section that meets their needs.


Categories

Teachers and parents can use the free services of the MCEC to analyze the quality of their education. To do this, you need to contact the Center for Independent Diagnostics, having first called the phone number to leave a request for a group or individual check. Popular free services include laboratory diagnostics in physics in 3D format for grades 7-11. This greatly simplifies the process of preparing students for upcoming exams.

Anyone can use them after pre-registration. There is also a service such as diagnostics of subject knowledge for CND students, which costs only five hundred and eighty rubles.

Each educational organization can order an independent diagnosis in the Unified State Exam format. This is an opportunity for students to test their knowledge and psychologically prepare for passing exams, feeling themselves in the same conditions as they will be during testing.

MCCO personal account


Ratings

To get full access to MCCO services, you must initially register and visit your personal account. This will allow you to find out the results of queries, take tests online and gain full access to all information that may be of interest to the user.

Registration is not a difficult process. It will only be enough to provide basic contact information, such as a phone number and email address. After this, you need to confirm your identity and you will be able to freely use this service.

Contacts


How to get there

Of course, there is a lot of useful information on the website of the Education Quality Center, but it is often necessary to consult with a specialist personally. It is for this that it is necessary to find information about contacts and office locations.

On the official website you can see images of the “Yandex map” with specific information regarding the best way to get to a specific office. Information regarding hours and days of reception must be indicated.

MCEC is an important organization that controls the education of children in Moscow. It is this authority that conducts every monitoring and analyzes how effectively students study. Based on the results obtained, action plans are created, what and how needs to be implemented to effectively achieve the goal.


Monitoring and diagnostics

Additionally, comprehensive provision of conditions for the formation and functioning of the quality of education is carried out. At the same time, modern and highly efficient technologies with measurement techniques are regularly introduced into practice, which guarantee an objective assessment of the level of knowledge of students.

MCKO certification in 2016-2017 presents for all educational workers various methods and webinars with which you can improve your self-development, as well as bring the quality of education in the state to a new level.

Courses

Today we can say with confidence that the Moscow Center for Quality Education is going to hold a webinar on the use, study and application of diagnostic achievements of students in 2016. If such information is of interest to any representative of the educational sphere, then now you can use the vibinar services in real time by connecting to the Internet. This will help anyone through the network without leaving home to obtain useful information.

There are a few points worth noting regarding the marked courses.

1. Here will be a detailed review of all those steps to register for the third level diagnostics.

2. For students in grades 4 and 7, monitoring and diagnostics will be mandatory.

3. For 10th grade students, diagnostics must be carried out in a strictly specified direction: training in professional organizations, an engineering class or a medical class.

4. It is necessary to study all the nuances of the future testing work “Healthy Lifestyle”. The marked topic is considered one of the list of mandatory ones for each school.

Participants in such courses and webinars can be teachers of secondary and primary levels of secondary schools or deputy directors.

Monitoring and diagnostics

Today, in addition to the above-mentioned work, the Moscow Center for Educational Education carries out various diagnostics regarding the educational achievements of students. This is the order of the Department of Education of the Russian Federation.

All noted work must be carried out or planned in 3 main stages. Each of them is characterized by a set of its own features and execution rules. Before you begin to carry out diagnostic or control work on various cards, it is worth preparing local acts in advance. In this case, the primary task of the administration of the educational institution is to plan the noted diagnostic measures, or select their exact number for the future.

Stage 1. Initially, you must submit an application stating that you want to take part in the event, which is part of the first stage. All of them will continue from the beginning of the school year until the end of November. For a more effective process, it is necessary to properly familiarize 9th and 10th grade students with all the necessary webinar materials in order to diagnose the Russian language and mathematics. Since 2017, this list of subjects also includes the history of Russia for the 10th grade.


Stage 2.
At the second stage, an application is submitted for participation in the next stage of diagnostics, which will take place until the end of February 2017.

Stage 3. Submitting an application for the opportunity to participate in all events of the final stage of diagnostics, which will take place from March to April 2017.

Diagnosis of primary classes

For the very first link of the entire educational process, its own forms of diagnostics and monitoring are also prepared, each form of which can take place at a specially designated time. For example, diagnostic testing in mathematics for children in grade 4 should take place on April 14, since it is scheduled for the allotted time. The question immediately arises: why was this particular subject chosen at this time? Everything is much simpler than it might seem; the exact choice of discipline depending on time is carried out using a drawing of lots, which took place on March 31, 2016 at a meeting of the Department of Education.

MCCO certification can also be called an autonomous educational institution of the state type; in 2017, it plans to conduct a fairly large number of diagnostics and monitoring in accordance with previously compiled applications from various educational organizations. This will primarily concern the issue of student achievements relative to the extra-budgetary basis.

It is worth noting that all the work, which consists of a whole list of actions, is fully paid for by the educational organization that applies for participation. This includes the preparation of specially designed kits, the creation of diagnostic information, the processing and verification of all test results, and the payment of the work of all independent observers who understood the participation in the survey. This point is worth thinking about before an organization decides to submit an application to participate in the ICC certification for the next year.

Taking part in such webinars or diagnostics is not mandatory for 2017, but for every institution for which it is important to monitor the knowledge of its students, such work will be very useful. Other information regarding the conduct of the marked test surveys, as well as the rules for conducting them, can be found on the official website of the MCCS.

Every year, the Moscow Center for Quality Education conducts a large number of inspections of educational institutions in order to monitor the effectiveness of education and identify gaps in the 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 assignments (dictations, tests) 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 allow you to create an objective situation at the current moment, and also allow you to compare the successes of students 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 diagnostics are scheduled 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:

  1. National Educational Quality Surveys
  2. International comparative studies of education quality
  3. Computer diagnostics
  4. 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 testing has been carried out since 2015 in order to ensure the unity of the educational space of the Russian Federation and support 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, uniform standards of conduct, inspection and evaluation are used in all regions of the Russian Federation; they are set out in the procedure for carrying out 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 subjects 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 inspections are the Federal Service for Supervision and Control in 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 questions. 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

It provides information about research at the 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 the level of reading and text comprehension of primary school students in different countries of the world. Research is needed to understand the differences and effectiveness of different education systems. Conducted once every 5 years since 2001.
  • The international program for assessing educational achievements of students PISA is an assessment of the educational achievements of students who have reached the age of fifteen. Within the framework of this study, knowledge and skills taken in life are assessed in three areas - “reading literacy”, “mathematical literacy”, “natural 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 Study of the Quality of General Education TIMSS - a comparative assessment of the preparation of fourth and eighth grade students in mathematics and science. Held every 4 years since 1995.
  • A comparative study of the quality of general education TIMSS –Ad Advanced – a study of the preparation of high school graduates studying in-depth mathematics and physics. 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 civic education in 8th grade of general education 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, an international study to study teacher education systems and assess the quality of training of primary and secondary school teachers in mathematics, was conducted 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, the system offers to solve a demonstration test on financial literacy. In today's world, it is very important to be financially literate.

The banking sector, like economic life in general, 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 money and prevent financial fraud.


Monitoring and diagnostics are a very important activity of the Moscow Center for Educational Quality.

Thanks to it, the teaching staff of 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.