The new academic season 2018-2019 will again not do without independent monitoring and diagnostics of the MCCD in the capital's schools. Thus, the state institution of additional professional education in Moscow has the opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching, draw conclusions about the quality of knowledge received by schoolchildren, identify the most capable teachers, pave the way for the introduction of new learning systems, and this is not the whole list of tasks that can be solved using data. checks.

Monitoring 2018-2019

All audit activities of the institution were divided into three large groups:

1. Assessment of educational achievements of students of educational organizations in the 2018/2019 academic year (on a budgetary and non-budgetary basis).
2. National studies on the quality of knowledge delivery.
3. International comparative studies of the quality of the educational process.

Each group is distinguished by the ICAC 2018-2019 diagnostic calendar, as well as the goals, participants, and verification tools. But they have a common regulatory document - a letter from the Moscow Department of Education dated May 14, 2018 "On measures for the independent assessment of educational achievements of students in educational organizations in the 2018/2019 academic year."

High School Test Plan

This is the most demanded plan among teachers and directors, as it applies to all budgetary educational institutions of the capital. In the new academic year, it will consist of seven stages:

• Corrective obligatory diagnostics from 9th to 11th grades. It will affect only those institutions in which the USE result in the Russian language and mathematics in 2018 turned out to be unsatisfactory.

• Checking in those subjects that are studied at an in-depth level.

• Checks in the organizations participating in the project on the organization of specialized training in basic general education programs.

• Checking knowledge acquired in optional classes. For grades 8-9, this is “financial literacy” or “history of Moscow”, and for tenth graders these are “memorable pages of the history of the Fatherland”.
• Meta-subject diagnostics. Serves for analysis of achieving the planned results in the development of the educational program.
• Diagnostics in primary school (mathematics, Russian language, reading). Will take place in April 2019.

Important! The first stage of diagnostics will take place in September-November 2018. Applications for participation in it must be submitted on the mrko.mos.ru website in the school's personal account. Also on the official website of the institution in the section "instructive - methodological materials" you can find complete information on the audit.

In the current academic year, the MCCS will also conduct a raid of inspections in educational institutions that are not related to the budget (private schools). The ICAC Audit Schedule 2018-2019 for them is shown below.

National Educational Quality Surveys

This group includes two diagnostic tools. These are the All-Russian Verification Works (VPR) and the program of the National Research on the Quality of Education (NIKO).

The purpose of these methods is to ensure the unity of the educational space with the universal observance of the adopted general educational programs.

The features of VPR are:

• the level of checking the knowledge of schoolchildren is carried out through the same task for the whole country;
• uniform evaluation criteria are used;
• students are provided with absolutely identical conditions when passing the exam (reflected in special instructions);
• unified assessment criteria (after completing the work, schools get access to the criteria and recommendations for assessment).

VPR enable school leaders to timely orient themselves in the correct organization of the educational process and check the level of knowledge of their wards for compliance with the all-Russian standard.

Important! During the writing of such control, the presence of observers from parents or teachers is allowed.

The features of the NIKO program are:

• anonymous questioning (computer testing technology or the use of machine-readable forms) of students in order to collect information about the learning process and its proper level;
• sampling of participants is carried out at the federal level according to a special methodology (depending on the specific NIKO project).
• the results of the surveys received are used to analyze the current state of the educational system and formulate programs for its development.

Important! When testing students under the NIKO program, the assessment of the activities of teachers and regional executive authorities is not provided.

Participation in the new academic year in the NIKO project is shown below.

International comparative studies of the quality of education

In 2018-2019, this monitoring group will be marked by three events, each of which is aimed at different categories of schoolchildren.

1. Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (quality of reading and understanding of the text). It will be held among primary school students in different countries of the world.
2. Research International Computer and Information Literacy Study (testing computer and information literacy for eighth graders).
3. Research on civic education for eighth graders.

Non-diagnostic goals of ICCS in 2018-2019

In addition to monitoring educational institutions, the Moscow Education Center has many other goals and plans in the field of raising the level of education in Moscow and, in particular, in Russia. These are various international conferences, seminars and certifications.

So, the very first in the calendar of the new academic year is an important world-class event - the Moscow International Forum "City of Education" (August 30 - September 2, 2018). The organizers plan to attract more than 70,000 participants, among whom will be representatives of the leadership of schools in Moscow, Russia and other countries of the world. The forum will end with the traditional festival of the Russian language.

And in February, the main organizational event of the year will take place - an international conference on the development of a quality system for obtaining knowledge.

The Center also offers advanced training courses to employees of educational organizations with the issuance of an appropriate certificate.

A detailed schedule of diagnostic work for 2018 - 2019 can be found on the MCKO website mcko.ru.

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 my work and left in a terrible state, 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 it took. I worked another 60 minutes. It was uncomfortable: it seemed to me that I was detaining people.

The answer sheet deserves special mention. It was standard, contained 26 points and did not correspond to the format of the work: in terms of 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 coincide with the format of other works.

About a week later, we received an e-mail response with the results of the diagnostics (file attached). For each task, the table shows the topic of the task, the maximum score and the grade obtained. It turned out that I got a much lower mark than I expected. At the screening, we were given assignments and my work; again there were no specifications and evaluation criteria. In many ways, my mistakes turned out to be stupid - I myself wondered how I could write such a thing. We considered that some assignments were assessed incorrectly, and one assignment did not correspond to the standard program. Photographing was not allowed, a copy of the work was not provided.

At home, we prepared and submitted an appeal by e-mail, which remained unanswered. A little later, we received a certificate (the file is attached), which indicated the initial result. They refused to give us a certified sheet with a transcript of the results.

In addition to the above, it should be added that the impossibility of analyzing errors at home significantly reduces the educational value of such diagnostics. I was well prepared for the diagnosis, that's for sure, and counted on "5". At first the impression was so bad that I didn't want to go there anymore.

It should be noted that at this diagnostic, the administration and staff were interested in us, as in the SO-shniks. We were given a personal registration sheet, we were open to dialogue, we met halfway in everything that was not prohibited. Then the situation changed, but more on that next time.

The Moscow Center for the Quality of Education conducts a large number of inspections of educational institutions every year in order to control the effectiveness of education and identify gaps in the educational process.

The most qualitative are independent diagnostics of 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, tests) are prepared by the teachers of this school, 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 at the current moment, and also allow you to compare the successes of students from one educational institution in comparison with another.

Analysis of the identified errors allows you to quickly, timely adjust the educational process, eliminating all shortcomings.

Schools decide on their own which diagnostics to sign up for and how many classes will take part.

The administration has the opportunity to pre-select the time, since all diagnostics are carried out according to the annual plan.

Unfortunately, very often there are such situations that schools expose only one, the best class for diagnostics.

In this way, they try to put their school with the best result.

But here you need to understand that diagnostics is not a competition, but a tool to help the quality of the educational process.

First of all, such checks are needed by the schools themselves, and not by the center for the quality of education.

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 for non-saving them.

This opportunity is especially important for teachers who will soon be undergoing certification for a category upgrade, which necessarily takes into account the assessment of the performance of the class in which they teach.

Parents can see in their personal accounts information about which subject the diagnostics are scheduled for and when. This way they can help their child get ready.

Running Diagnostic Tests

Diagnostics is a paid service. Therefore, if there are problems at the school on the day of the appointment of the test, and they ask to cancel it, then the re-diagnosis will have to be paid again.

First of all, you need to understand that information on the assigned diagnostics appears on the official website of the MCCS a month before its appointment. There is also a demo.

The teacher must be familiar with all materials. The next step is to prepare the students. One of the points of preparation is filling out the 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, there is an opportunity to ask all your questions online and get full answers to them.

After the verification, the results will be uploaded to the school's personal accounts. They can be analyzed and corrected by the teacher.

The results of the check can be considered unreliable if violations were found during the conduct (according to independent experts) or a large number of corrections were made in the student response forms.

Official website of the ICCS

All information about monitoring and diagnostics is available on the official website of the Moscow Center for Educational Quality.

It can be found in three sections:

• "Leaders".
• "Educators".
• "To the parents."

But in all cases, there will be a transfer to the page - "For managers" - "Monitoring and diagnostics".

This section contains basic information and links to specific types of checks.

The main information contains data on contacts, stages of diagnostics, links to instructive and methodological materials, information about each subject diagnostics.

Types of checks:

1. National Educational Quality Surveys
2. International comparative studies of the quality of education
3. Computer diagnostics
4. Fundamentals of economic knowledge

National Educational Quality Surveys

When you open this section, information about three types of assessment appears:

• All-Russian verification work;
• National Studies on the Quality of Education;
• Study of teachers' competencies.

All-Russian verification work 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 fact, these are tests for individual assessment of students. In general, there is an objective analysis of the quality of education at the intermediate stages of education, and not at the end of the year.

When carrying out such work, uniform standards for conducting, checking and evaluating in all regions of the Russian Federation are used, they are set out in the procedure for conducting the VRP.

External participants, most often from among parents, are invited during the conduction as independent observers.

National studies of the quality of education - conducted since 2014. The NIKO program is individual research projects on specific subjects at a specific time.

Projects - work on academic subjects, questioning students and collecting information about the learning process.

The purpose of NIKO is to identify students' subject and interdisciplinary skills and the formation of learning activities.

NIKOs are held strictly according to the schedule, anonymously, there is no link to the data of the students. The sampling of educational institutions takes place at the federal level by the program.

The results are used to assess the quality of the education system as a whole, not the performance of a particular school or its teachers. These checks are carried out annually, and the results are discussed at conferences to assess the quality of education.

The study of teachers' competencies has been conducted since 2015. The initiators of such inspections are the Federal Service for Supervision and Control in Education (Rosobrnadzor).

The goal is to evaluate and match teachers with the position and category.

Only professionals who every day strive for self-improvement and improvement of their competencies should be engaged in the education of schoolchildren.

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 precisely at achieving unity in this problem.

The essence of the ICU is the anonymous filling of questionnaires with professional and sociological questions. The results are used to polish the education system, not to evaluate a particular school and its staff.

International comparative studies of the quality of education

It provides information on research at the international level, a 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 understanding of the text" PIRLS - a comparison of the level of reading and understanding of the text by primary school students in different countries of the world. Research is needed to understand the differences and effectiveness of different education systems. They have been held every 5 years since 2001.
• The international program for assessing the 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 acquired in life are assessed in three areas - "reading literacy", "mathematical literacy", "science literacy". They are held every 3 years, starting from the year 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 in order to identify the readiness of students to fully function in society.
• The TIMSS Benchmarking Study on the Quality of General Education is a comparative assessment of fourth and eighth grade students' preparation in mathematics and science. It has been held every 4 years since 1995.
• Comparative study of the quality of general education TIMSS - Ad Advanced - a study of the preparation of high school graduates who study in depth mathematics and physics. These two subjects are priority in terms of intellectual preparation of students. Such studies were carried out in 1995, 2008 and 2015.
• International Study of Computer and Information Literacy ICILS is 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 the 8th grade of general educational institutions ICCS - assesses the readiness of schoolchildren to become citizens of their country, their attitude to their civic duty. Research has been carried out since 1999.
• TEDS-M is an international study on the study of teacher education systems and the assessment of the quality of teacher training in primary and secondary schools 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 conducted with the aim of tracing the school environment, the conditions in which teachers work. Research has been carried out since 2008.

In this section, a small material is given about each program, which describes the process of implementation and the results obtained. A link to the source is also given, which the user can consult if necessary.

Computer diagnostics

When opening this section, it is proposed to pass 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 his own password and login, which indicates the confidentiality of information.

Fundamentals 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, as well as economic life in general, is developing.

Now financial services are available, including to schoolchildren from 14 years old. At this age, they can already open accounts (naturally, 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 funds and prevent financial fraud.

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

Thanks to him, the teaching staff of schools can timely monitor the 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.