Abstract:

The article describes the experience of quantifying the influence of external factors (barriers) that are objectively formed not only by the special needs of the child, but also by the special needs of the family and/or community in which an individual student of the school lives and is brought up. The factors considered characterize the socio-economic background (background, context) of the school. The results obtained are a continuation of the research, the concept and the first results of which are published in the materials of previous conferences organized by IATED.

The development of the method consists, on the one hand, in expanding the analytical apparatus for studying the school background, on the other hand, in exploring various options for visualizing and formalizing the structure and semantics of external factors affecting the quality of education in Russian schools.

Constructing the factor model, we take into account the external (relative to the school) characteristics of the context, consistent with the indicators of the international comparative study PISA for Schools and the Australian "Index of Community Socioeducational Advantage (ICSEA) / ACARA". This approach represents a new direction of data analytics in the system of assessing the quality of school education in the Russian Federation. In addition, the distinctive feature of proposed method is positioned from similar studies of the HSE (Moscow) and FIRO (Moscow), which allows the analysis of possible barriers not only at the level of a group (class, school) and territory (village, city, municipality, region), but also at the level of an individual student.

The semantics of factors obtained in the study should become the basis of an information and analytical system that allows various groups of respondents (stakeholders) obtaining "digital" solutions based on the analysis of available facts and representing the visualization of potential difficulties (barriers). Such an assessment is especially important in the context of a pandemic and other emergencies, when many families have to change their usual lives due to emerging difficulties related not only to health, but also to changes in social and professional spheres. Quantitative assessment of the intensity of external barriers affecting the quality of education is necessary and significant for education management in order to reduce the gap in educational opportunities and overcome social barriers to education.

The report presents an algorithm for calculating and analyzing the index of the external context of the school territory on the example of individual regions of the Russian Federation.

The article was prepared as part of the implementation of the state task of the FIRO RANEPA.

Keywords:

Socio-economic barriers/advantages, barriers to educational success, learning outcomes quality, quality in education, management, educational data analytics.