scholarly journals QUALITY OF THE SECONDARY SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT: A COMPARATIVE STUDY USING THE SACERS RATING SCALE

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-17
Author(s):  
Elena Vladimirovna Ivanova ◽  
Irina Anatolyevna Vinogradova ◽  
Oksana Valeryevna Nesterova
Keyword(s):  
Quality Index ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Process Conditions ◽  
Educational Conditions

The quality of education is the main priority in most states’ policy, and Russia is no exception. Russia pays much attention to the accessibility of quality education for all citizens regardless of their place of residence and social status. The quality of education is considered a complex characteristic of educational activity and students’ training. We will consider it within the framework of this article in the context of the assessment and development of the school educational environment. The quality of the educational environment is provided by the following factors: content components relating to the interaction between participants of an educational relationship; organization of the educational process; conditions for professional staff growth and comfortable environment for exceptional children. The study using the SACERS rating scale revealed that schools in different districts of the metropolitan area differ in terms of providing students with equal conditions in their educational environment. The most significant differences were revealed in the following components of the educational environment: the creation of organizational conditions for extracurricular activities and additional education; interior solutions to ensure privacy, the comfort of communication, and motor activity; conditions for the learning and development of students with special educational needs. The study showed that schools with a higher quality index of the educational environment have quite homogeneous educational conditions. They provide relatively equal access to quality education compared to a group of structural units with a lower quality index. The differences in the compared educational organizations specifying the heterogeneity of educational conditions are related to characteristics such as the variability or uniformity in the use of resources, resource availability or its active use, whether it is a systematic or fragmented working process, and the focus on control norms or development.

scholarly journals ШКОЛЫ С РАЗНЫМ ИНДЕКСОМ КАЧЕСТВА ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОЙ СРЕДЫ: РЕЗУЛЬТАТЫ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ С ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕМ ШКАЛЫ SACERS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Ivanova ◽  
Irina Vinogradova ◽  
Oksana Nesterova ◽  
Elizaveta Mayakova
Keyword(s):  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Quality Index ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Educational Conditions

Введение. Проблема повышения качества образования актуализирует вопросы оценки и развития образовательных условий в образовательных организациях в целях обеспечения равных образовательных возможностей для всех обучающихся. Материал и методы. Исследование образовательной среды московских школ осуществлено с применением международной шкалы SACERS на рандомной выборке из 58 структурных подразделений образовательных комплексов, расположенных в восьми административных округах города Москвы. Результаты и обсуждение. Данные, полученные в ходе исследования образовательной среды, свидетельствуют о достаточном потенциале московских школ в плане взаимодействия между субъектами образовательного процесса, положительных тенденциях в обеспечении вариативности программ дополнительного образования и внеурочной деятельности, благоприятных условиях, созданных в системе московского образования в плане профессионального развития педагогов. При этом в московских образовательных учреждениях имеются ограничения в плане обеспечения необходимыми условиями обучения и развития обучающихся с особыми образовательными потребностями. Установлено, что школы разных районов Москвы и даже корпусов одного образовательного комплекса различаются в плане обеспечения равными образовательными условиями. Наибольшие различия выявлены в таких компонентах образовательной среды, как организация внеурочной деятельности, дополнительного образования и предметной среды для различных видов деятельности, создание условий для обучения и развития обучающихся с особыми образовательными потребностями. В школах с более высоким индексом качества образовательной среды имеются достаточно однородные образовательные условия, которые обеспечивают относительно равный доступ к качественному образованию в сравнении с группой структурных подразделений с менее высоким индексом качества образовательной среды. Заключение. Качество образовательной среды московских школ обеспечивается содержательными компонентами, связанными со взаимодействием участников образовательного процесса, организацией учебного процесса и созданием условий для профессионального развития педагогов. Различия в сравниваемых образовательных организациях, определяющие неоднородность образовательных условий, связаны с такими характеристиками, как вариативность или единообразие в использовании ресурсов, наличие ресурса или его активное использование, систематичность работы или фрагментарность, ориентация на нормы контроля.Introduction. The problem of improving the quality of education actualizes the issues of assessment and development of the educational conditions in educational organizations in order to ensure the equal educational opportunities for all students. Material and methods. We used the SACERS international scales for studying the educational environment in Moscow schools. Located in eight areas of Moscow 58 structural units of educational complexes (sample) took part in the survey. Results and discussion. Such items as interaction between the parents, the teachers and the administration of the school, the variability of the education programs and extracurricular activities, good conditions for the professional teachers’ development showed the great result. At the same time, there are some confines in providing the necessary conditions for training and development for the students with special educational needs. It was established that schools differ in providing equal educational conditions. The greatest differences are in such components of the educational environment as the organization of extracurricular activities, additional education and the subject environment for various types of activities, the creation of conditions for training and development of the students with special educational needs. Schools with a higher quality index of the educational environment have homogeneous educational conditions that provide relatively equal access to the quality education in comparison with the group of schools with a lower quality index of the educational environment. Conclusion. The quality of the educational environment in Moscow schools achieved in the participants’ interaction in the educational process, the organization of the educational process and the creation of the conditions for the professional development for teachers.

scholarly journals The Study of School Educational Environment in the Context of Ensuring Equal Access to Quality Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 69-89
Author(s):  
E. V. Ivanova ◽  
I. A. Vinogradova ◽  
S. A. Zadadaev
Keyword(s):  
Professional Growth ◽  
Quality Index ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Education For All ◽  
Management Problem ◽  
Educational Conditions

Introduction. Today, official international and State Russian documents require ensuring equal access to quality education for all citizens regardless of place of residence and social status. In this regard, it becomes relevant to determine the quality of school environment and its potential in terms of compliance with the requirements of delivery of quality education services for all representatives of the oncoming generation.The aim of the present research is to study the educational environment of Moscow schools in the context of ensuring equal access to quality education.Methodology and research methods. An international assessment tool – the SACERS scale – was chosen as the main method of the research. The SACERS scale was modified by the employees of Laboratory of Educational Infrastructures of the Institute of System Projects of Moscow City University (MCU). The data were processed using descriptive statistics methods, dispersion and regression analysis, T-student’s criterion in the modification of Welch.Results and scientific novelty. On the basis of random sample (22 educational complexes), the peculiarities of educational conditions in different Moscow schools were diagnosed; the quality index of their educational environment and its structural components were determined (n = 58). The study sample revealed the “heterogeneity” of secondary educational establishments in the organisation of the subject-spatial environment of schools, extracurricular activities and additional education, as well as availability of educational infrastructure for students with special educational needs. Sufficiently equal indicators of educational conditions were identified: “Attendance”, “Space for Gross Motor Activities”, “Discipline”, “Peer Interactions”, “Interactions between Staff and Parents”, “Opportunities for Professional Growth”. Six “homogeneous” and ten “inhomogeneous” complexes were revealed in the studied sample. In “homogeneous” complexes, there are educational conditions, which provide relatively equal access to quality education, as compared with “heterogeneous” complexes. This fact is confirmed by the range of values of the quality index of the educational environment and the values of standard deviation.Practical significance. The present research allowed the authors to obtain a differentiated understanding of the existing educational conditions of Moscow schools, which formed the basis to solve the management problem in the development of education system, which guarantees quality education for all students.

scholarly journals Improving the quality of education: risks of virtual educational environment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
С.А. Ковчур
Keyword(s):  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Effective Work ◽  
The Impact

В статье рассматривается проблема влияния рисков виртуальной образовательной среды на качество образования. С точки зрения педагогического взаимодействия как основы цифрового образовательного процесса выделяются риски, связанные с внешними организационными условиями реализации цифрового образования (отсутствие финансирования, принятие неэффективных управленческих решений, недостаточное нормативно-правовое регулирование, отсутствие материально-технического обеспечения, ограничение доступа к образовательным услугам), и психолого-педагогические риски (дидактические ошибки и недостатки в организации цифрового обучения, обусловленные неготовностью к деятельности в виртуальной образовательной среде участников педагогического взаимодействия, и их личностные характеристики, препятствующие эффективной работе). На основе анализа практической реализации проектных технологий даны рекомендации по предупреждению негативных последствий неготовности преподавателей и студентов к учебной деятельности в условиях виртуальной образовательной среды. The article deals with the problem of the impact of virtual educational environment risks on the quality of education. From the perspective of pedagogical interaction as of the basis of a digital educational process, the article highlights the risks associated with external organizational conditions of the implementation of digital education. Among them, there is a risk of a lack of funding, of making inefficient management decisions, of insufficient legal regulation, of a lack of logistical support, and of restricted access to education. Psychological and pedagogical risks are didactic mistakes and defects in the organization of digital learning, and personal characteristics as obstacles to effective work – both due to the unpreparedness of the participants of pedagogical interaction to work in the virtual educational environment. The author expresses opinion of the different degrees of such risks manifestation and the occurrence of consequences for the quality of education. Based on the analysis of practical experience in the implementation of project technologies, recommendations are offered to prevent the negative consequences caused by the unpreparedness of teachers and students learning in virtual educational environment.

scholarly journals Social Portrait of a Student as a Component of Monitoring the Quality of the Organization of the Educational Process

Discourse ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 64-75
Author(s):  
A. A. Beschasnaya
Keyword(s):  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Sociocultural Environment ◽  
The Social

Introduction. Today, one of the criteria for assessing the quality of education is the opinion of students about educational services. Undergraduates enrolled in distance learning programs represent a specific student audience. Features of this category form a social portrait that has the information potential for organizing an effective educational process adapted to the “target audience”. Methodology and sources. In the academic year 2018–2019, the author conducted an empirical case study through an anonymous online survey of graduate students of the correspondence department of the first year of study. Results and discussion. As a result of the survey, respondents have received answers characterizing the peculiarities of their life, sociocultural environment, professional activity and factors of formation of motives of educational activity. The information obtained is presented in tables, which allowed to form a “numerical” outline of the social portrait of an extramural student. The result of an empirical study was a description of the collective image of a student studying in absentia in a magistracy. Active professional activity, focus on success, limited time resources, etc., determined the content of wishes for improving the conditions and process of educational activity. The main adjustments should relate to the effective planning of the educational process, methodological support of classroom and extracurricular activities, providing comfortable conditions for a long stay in an educational institution and communication with fellow students.Conclusion. The social portrait of students contains information about their typical representatives, the sociocultural environment of life.  Regular monitoring of the dynamics of socially significant characteristics of students allows you to quickly make adjustments that improve the quality of education. 

Educational environment – the territory of schoolchildren

2020 ◽  
Vol 89-90 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 10-18
Author(s):  
Olga Demina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Effective Means ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Modern School ◽  
To Receive

The current situation in secondary education is characterized by the development of various educational institutions, which differ not only in educational programs and curriculum, but also in the conditions for training and educating, which make up the educational environment of modern educational institutions. The importance of studying the processes of forming the educational environment in a modern school is relevant, since the quality of education and upbringing of modern students who spend most of their time in the educational environment of schools will depend on its organization. Studying the problems of organizing the educational environment is also important in the sense that it is the qualitative approach to this process that will determine in the future if it is possible for students to receive high-quality educational services. The influence of the educational environment on the modern student is determined today, first of all, by the students' perception of the educational process, their involvement in the process of its creation and improvement. The effectiveness of the educational environment may also depend on how the student perceives it. So, the educational environment can be an effective means of developing the potential of the student, but if it is an integrated space for the interaction of children and adults (parents, teachers).

scholarly journals NORMS AND ANOMALIES OF PUPILS’ EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY

2018 ◽  
pp. 5-9
Author(s):  
M. STEPANENKO ◽  
V. LUTFULLIN
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
High Quality Education

The aim of this article is, firstly, an analysis of numerous deficiencies and the consequences of the educational process generated congestion programs, books, calendar and lesson plans, as well as the immense amount of homework; Secondly, modeling of normalized learning process, which is entirely possible to achieve high quality education based on successful implementation of the principle of availability of learning and teaching of all other principles. In this regard, the most obvious abnormal congestion is stated for the seniors immense amount of homework that is incompatible with the principle of accessibility of education and school hygiene requirements. It is noted also that studies of many local authors found negative effects of abnormally overloaded amount of homework. However, numerous studies have concluded less obvious, but the most dangerous  overloading  of  school  curricula  and  textbooks.  Appeal  to  the  measurement  of  educational  overloads  done  by V. P. Bespalko shows that students are forced to use mathematics textbooks, whose congestion contains between 5-fold to 20- fold. Effectiveness in study for many students with these textbooks V. P. Bespalko describes the term "zero success." It is ascertained spread of zero (ie, disastrous) the level of success of the quality of education in mathematics, physics and chemistry. It is shown that abnormal overload programs and textbooks causes long chain of  other anomalous phenomena in the educational process such as the loss of the opportunity to implement the principle of availability, training and all other didactic principles; distribution of zero-level retention on the quality of education in mathematics, physics and chemistry; the loss of students’ desire to learn, that paralyzes the assimilation education content; mechanical memorization of educational material; the forced nature of the training activity of the students and the teacher's position occasioned by the authoritarian it; school boredom,  indiscipline,  but  teaching  students,  which  in  turn  becomes  the  cause  of  the  juvenile;  application  of  teachers antipedagogical means of maintaining discipline; catastrophically high incidence of students. This circuit anomalies learning process does not end there. Its sequel is the subjects of individual research.The standardization of the educational process is considered as the maximum possible elimination of educational and all other overloads generated by their anomalies. It is shown that strong guidance for implementing learning is normalized in the pedagogical heritage of J. A. Comenius, A. Distervega, practical experience in solving the problem of eliminating congestion educational (Frohlich school, modern educational reforms in Singapore). In this regard, it also emphasizes the relevance of the concept of structuralism, sponsored by the famous Polish dydakt K. Sosnitskii.

scholarly journals RATING AS ASSESSMENT TOOL OF QUALITY AND COMPETITIVENESS OF UNIVERSITY

2018 ◽  
pp. 16-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oksana Buinytska ◽  
Bohdan Hrytseliak ◽  
Valeriia Smirnova ◽  
◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
University Rankings ◽  
World University Rankings ◽  
The University

The main tasks of the modern university are to increase the quality of educational services and to step up activities in the international educational space. One way related to providing quality education, creating an open information and educational environment through which participants of educational process receive open access to resources from any point and at any convenient time. Openness and publicity activities of the university contributes to its competitiveness, i.e. its rating among higher education institutions, including born healthy competition that fosters competitiveness training specialists. The article analyzes the methodology, relationship and position Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University in the most authoritative international and Ukrainian ratings: Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), QS World University Rankings, Times Higher Education, Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, Ukrainian Rating institutions of higher education by Scopus indicators, «Top-200 Ukraine», Consolidated ranking of universities in Ukraine, Transparency rating of universities (CEDOS), «Bibliometric of Ukrainian science». The indexes and tendencies of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University on the key ratings and their influence on the quality of education are researched. Discovered mutual performance rating among themselves, including ranking on indicators of performance in Scopus on indicators of Openness and Excellence of Webometrics rating and the rating «Bibliometric of Ukrainian science»; Direct effect of Transparent ranking: Top Universities by Google Scholar Citations on the Webometrics rating. The article describes the ways of influencing on the main indicators of the University's activities in order to increase the positions in international and native ratings and, accordingly, the competitiveness of the University in the educational space.

scholarly journals An Examination of Quality of Education in Pakistan with respect to Personality Development of a Child in Islamic Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Dr. Muhammad Zulqarnain ◽  
Dr.Hafiz Rao Farhan Ali ◽  
Dr.Khan Faqeer
Keyword(s):  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Primary Level ◽  
Educational Structure

The phase of primary level education is the most important phase throughout the educational process. The purpose of this research paper was to critically analyze the quality of education in Pakistan at primary level. The method used for the research was qualitative and descriptive. For clear understanding of underlying theme the article was divided into three sections: the first section gave the brief introduction to importance of primary education and educational structure in Pakistan, the second discussed the education in Islamic context, and the third dealt with the reshaping of educational structure with respect to quality education. The review of literature revealed that the quality of education in Pakistan was far from its objectives, personality development of children, grooming of learners, as well as critical and creative thinking. The study also found that the education we gave to our children was not up to the mark as it was not fulfilling the requirements of quality education that’s why the generation, we educated was unfaithful, disloyal, immoral and highly corrupted. Moreover, Islam had given emphasize on child development from all aspects; physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, social and economic. In this context, the author recommends to follow the infrastructure of Islamic education to develop the child’s personality in comprehensive way. For this purpose, objectives of education, pedagogy, curriculum, and assessment system must be revised in the light of Islamic teachings.

scholarly journals INTERACTION OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS PARTIES AS GUARANTEE OF HIGH QUALITY OF EDUCATION

2018 ◽  
pp. 61-64
Author(s):  
A. Stebletskyi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Higher Education Reform ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Continuous Growth

Our country relies on system of education in its development. The laws of Ukraine “On Higher Education” (2014) and “On Education” (2017) were adopted. The philosophical aspect of topical trends in education is considered in life-long helping an individual to fulfil him/herself as a professional citizen and personality. It is obvious, that in such case, the access to education and educational services should increase. This fact exacerbates the issue of improving the quality of education. One of the directions of increasing the quality of education is to increase the quality of educational activities. An important reserve for the quality of educational activities is the constructive interaction of participants in the educational process. The article analyses the nature of interaction of the parties to the educational process in the context of their educational activities. The structure of optimal self-organization of the parties’ educational activities is determined. The problems in studying the quality of educational activities are stated. The conditions, factors and criteria determining the nature of the interaction of educational activity parties are described. The conditions of educational process development in the higher schools are determined by its nature: the educational process based on the research basis, the interaction between the parties, the practice-aimed educational process. The conditions of development of educational process parties’ interaction are determined by interdependence of processes being the basis of their educational activities self-organization. The important criteria for constructive nature of the parties’ interaction in the educational process include benevolence, openness, impartiality, aspiration for perfection, and activity. Higher education reform can not take place without the continuous growth of higher education quality. Higher education should become even more powerful source of development of our country.

scholarly journals Online and Digital Education at Universities of Uzbekistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-61
Author(s):  
L. S. Makhmutkhodjaeva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Electronic Resources ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
The Republic

Purpose of the study. The digital turn in higher education and pedagogical technologies requires the use of a variety of teaching approaches and methods. The quarantine period in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic caused the need for a radical transformation of the higher education system, its new paradigm in a modern digital society. In such conditions, it becomes necessary to form a digital educational environment and many countries, including the Republic of Uzbekistan, have faced this task. Students need to develop skills in working with information, in particular, the use of information and communication technologies in the process of solving cognitive tasks and performing creative tasks in cognitive and educational activities. All these processes update the topic of the article and require an analysis of the experience of using electronic educational resources in the Republic of Uzbekistan.Materials and methods. The methodological basis of the research was the activity-oriented, personality-oriented, systemic, project-based and individually creative approaches. The analysis of the historiography of the problem showed: despite a significant number of studies in the field of application of various information technologies in historical research, there are still no works that would summarize data on working with electronic educational resources in the Republic of Uzbekistan. This article is an attempt to offer an analysis of the possibilities, as well as the main advantages of using electronic educational resources in teaching disciplines in higher education, using the example of Uzbekistan.Results. The article examines electronic resources for distance education that are present in the CIS countries, since online educational resources as a complex of various educational materials, for which gadgets are used, can improve the quality of education and diversify the forms of teaching. The author analyzes the conditions and prospects for the development of distance education in the Republic of Uzbekistan, notes a conceptual approach to educational digital platforms that contribute to improving the quality of education. The system of higher education of the Republic as well as the conditions and prospects for the development of distance education in the Republic of Uzbekistan are investigated. The author identifies the main trends in the modern online educational environment. In addition, the advantages and disadvantages of electronic educational resources have been identified. The article defines the strategic goals for the development of higher education in the Republic of Uzbekistan at a new stage of development, and also presents an analysis of Internet resources for distance education that are available in Uzbekistan. Conclusion. Thus, we come to the conclusion that in the current conditions, many countries are switching to digital and electronic means of education; the article shows the main Internet resources that contribute to the effectiveness of the system of professional training for bachelors, using the example of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The effectiveness, intensity, activation, individualization, and communicativeness of the educational process depend to a greater extent on how electronic resources are used, what tasks are solved during their use.

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