{"title":"The USE Test in History and Its Validity: Experts of Regional Subject-Specific Committees Speculating on Free-Response Items","authors":"O. Fedorov, K. Verinchuk","doi":"10.17323/1814-9545-2021-3-189-211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17323/1814-9545-2021-3-189-211","url":null,"abstract":"Oleg Fedorov, Candidate of Sciences in History, Associate Professor, Director of the Siberian Institute of Management, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA). Address: 6 Nizhegorodskaya Str., 630102 Novosibirsk, Russian Federation. E-mail: fedorov-od@ranepa.ru (corresponding author) Ksenia Verinchuk, History Teacher, European Gymnasium. Address: 28 Sokolnicheskiy Val Str., 107113 Moscow, Russian Federation. E-mail: k.verinchuk@gmail.com The Unified State Exam (USE) in Russia is both an achievement and admission test, yet its validity has not been looked into on a large scale. The evolution of USE tests is distinctly marked by a growing number of constructed-response items, which might be affecting the validity of test results in many ways. In-depth semi-structured interviews with 36 USE experts in history allow identifying three major threats to USE validity: assessment criteria for items 24 and 25, item content, and expert bias. Interview transcripts were analyzed using content analysis, the results of which are presented along with recommendations on how to further improve the processes of item design and evaluation.","PeriodicalId":54119,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy Obrazovaniya-Educational Studies Moscow","volume":"104 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90587420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Personality Traits of Students in Resilient and Struggling Schools: Different Children or Different Schools","authors":"Roman Zvyagintsev","doi":"10.17323/1814-9545-2021-3-33-61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17323/1814-9545-2021-3-33-61","url":null,"abstract":"Roman Zvyagintsev, Junior Research Fellow, Pinsky Center of General and Extracurricular Education, National Research University Higher School of Economics; Doctoral Student, Institute of Education, National Research University Higher School of Economics. Address: Bld. 10, 16 Potapovsky Ln, 101000 Moscow, Russian Federation. E-mail: rzvyagincev@hse.ru One of the most important facets of educational inequality is the globally observed wide socioeconomic gap in academic outcomes across schools and individual students. However, there are resilient schools that manage to be effective in adverse circumstances. In order to find out what may stand behind resilience of disadvantaged schools, personality traits of their students are compared to those of students attending schools that perform low in equally challenging contexts. Empirical data for this study was collected in Leningrad Oblast in 2019 and includes information about schools’ academic outcomes and socioeconomic status (SES) as well as students’ personality traits that have been traditionally associated with psychological resilience. Personality traits are assessed using the Academic Resilience Scale (ARS‑30), the academic motivation subscale, and the grit and self-regulation scales. Factor structure of the questionnaires is verified using confirmatory factor analysis. No differences are revealed in personality traits of students between resilient and non-resilient low-SES schools, which confirms the previous findings that academic resilience is built through managerial strategies of school principals, school and state educational policies, and practices to improve school effectiveness.","PeriodicalId":54119,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy Obrazovaniya-Educational Studies Moscow","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90352888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Non-Bypass Trajectory, or The Boom in Demand for TVET in Russia","authors":"V. Maltseva, A. Shabalin","doi":"10.17323/1814-9545-2021-2-10-42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17323/1814-9545-2021-2-10-42","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54119,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy Obrazovaniya-Educational Studies Moscow","volume":"726 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76920076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Crowley-Vigneau, A. Baykov, Yelena Kalyuzhnova, V. Gnevasheva
{"title":"Local Content Policies in the Russian Higher Education Sector: Harming or Aiding Internationalization?","authors":"A. Crowley-Vigneau, A. Baykov, Yelena Kalyuzhnova, V. Gnevasheva","doi":"10.17323/1814-9545-2021-4-147-165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17323/1814-9545-2021-4-147-165","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54119,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy Obrazovaniya-Educational Studies Moscow","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90947451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Participatory Design of New School Learning Environments","authors":"O. S. Ostroverkh, A. Tikhomirova","doi":"10.17323/1814-9545-2021-3-260-283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17323/1814-9545-2021-3-260-283","url":null,"abstract":"Oksana Ostroverkh, Candidate of Sciences in Psychology, Associate Professor, Institute of Economics, Management and Environmental Studies, Siberian Federal University. Address: 79 Svobodny Ave, 660041 Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation. E-mail: ostrovoksana@mail.ru (corresponding author) Anna Tikhomirova, Individual and Group Psychology Teacher, Faculty of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education. Address: 29 Sretenka Str., 127051 Moscow, Russian Federation. E-mail: nutih@mail.ru This article looks into the legal and psychological aspects of child and youth participation in discussions and decision making on issues relating to their lives and gives an overview of the current trends in participatory development. Participatory design is interpreted within this study as activities that result in participatory action of children in the educational process. Participatory action is characterized in its intentional component and its persistence (reflected in searching for ways of bringing the intention to life) by initiative, consciousness, autonomy and responsibility. Participatory design is regarded as a tool for creating conditions to develop adolescents’ subject position. A new method of engaging children in participatory design of learning environments is offered and implemented in the study. The article describes successively the steps of method implementation and its testing within the framework of Pedagogical Design Studio’s activities.","PeriodicalId":54119,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy Obrazovaniya-Educational Studies Moscow","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90055288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Key Issues in Implementing the Federal State Education Standard for Preschool Education. Results of the National Study of Preschool Education Quality in 2016–2017","authors":"Igor B. Shiyan, T. Le-van, O. Shiyan, S. Zadadaev","doi":"10.17323/1814-9545-2021-2-82-106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17323/1814-9545-2021-2-82-106","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54119,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy Obrazovaniya-Educational Studies Moscow","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87589354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nikita Kolachev, Elena L. Rutkovskaya, G. Kovaleva, A. Polovnikova
{"title":"Predictors of Russian Students’ Financial Literacy: The PISA 2018 Results","authors":"Nikita Kolachev, Elena L. Rutkovskaya, G. Kovaleva, A. Polovnikova","doi":"10.17323/1814-9545-2021-4-166-186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17323/1814-9545-2021-4-166-186","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54119,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy Obrazovaniya-Educational Studies Moscow","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87929485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Venkat Bakthavatchaalam, M. Miles, M. Machado-Taylor, M. Sá
{"title":"Academic Dishonesty and Research Productivity in a Changing Higher Education Environment. The Case of India’s Engineering Institutions","authors":"Venkat Bakthavatchaalam, M. Miles, M. Machado-Taylor, M. Sá","doi":"10.17323/1814-9545-2021-2-126-151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17323/1814-9545-2021-2-126-151","url":null,"abstract":"The Indian academic system is in a period of rapid transition, evidenced by the increasing number of higher education institutions, students and academics. However, very few studies have explored academics’ research productivity and the various factors influencing it. Even those few studies have largely ignored the influences of indigenous factors and academic dishonesty on research productivity. Using a mixed-method approach, this research explores how the changing academic environment influences academics’ research productivity in South Indian engineering institutions established after 1990. Important demographic factors influencing research productivity have been identified. The results show that indigenous factors play a major role in motivating the academics to conduct research, whereas corruption/academic dishonesty, thought to be prevalent at all levels in the higher educational system, tend to reduce their research motivation. The research shows the complex interconnections between the changing academic environment, indigenous factors and academic dishonesty","PeriodicalId":54119,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy Obrazovaniya-Educational Studies Moscow","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86579391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}