Abstract:

In this paper, we consider the term "Information overload” as the excess information, which negatively affects the concentration of attention of school teachers and administrators. This fact has the considerably destabilizing aspect, exerting influence both to the education quality and to emotional state of students. Thus, it is necessary to have the assessment means, which allow the regional administrator to estimate timely the level of the information overload of school teachers and administrators.

During the analysis of personalized comments from respondents (teachers, administrators, students, parents) of the all-Russian study about well-being of the educational environment (FEDI, RANEPA, 2020) authors selected the context data about the information overload of school teachers and administrators, which emerged due to absence of the content required to perform their professional tasks. The sample representativeness was not specified beforehand, so the study was continuous. We used the answers and comments of 1st block of questions "Awareness" from 35 administrators and 540 teachers of Russian schools.
Among the administrators, the answer "Working meetings" was marked as least utility (51%) due to its frequency and duration (2-3 times per week and 6-10 hours summary). This fact allows detecting the information overload and reduced management quality for schools.

The least value as the source of awareness among the teachers get the answer "Official websites of executive authorities" – 41% (for example, among administrators – 68,8%). Therefore, for further investigations we are interested in feedback about this issue (demand, clear and convenient structure of the documentation from official websites of executive authorities).

The study shows that among the administrators, the information is marketable in 2-3 categories of educational activities, whereas the teachers mostly marked that they do not need any information at all (41%). Nevertheless, the results of questionnaire survey show that information for teachers is enough not due to their conversance in this problem, but due to the lack of time to make additional information requests. We consider this is a good illustration for information overload of pedagogic staff.

Thus, we determined the necessity of a future studying the issue about information, temporal, resource cost-effectiveness and significance of the performed reporting activity of the educational organizations. The analyses will be performed separately for teachers and administrators with the aim of further optimization of reporting operations and releasing resources for ensuring the effectiveness of educational activities.

Keywords:

Information congestion of school teachers and administrators, well-being of the educational environment, improving efficiency of management decisions.