Abstract:

In this paper, the authors present the outcomes of the research on the development of the tools for the assessment of the efficiency of school leaders and education managers of the regional level. The development of those efficiency assessment tools is offered and backgrounded as being in correlation with the results of the achievement of the targets set in the realm of the development of the regional education systems. The relevance of this research grounds on the need to build a new effective component of the methodology for assessing both the effectiveness and the efficiency of the educational staff, including the heads of the regional education systems. Other current issues in this context are the employability and the career development of the regional education administrations.

Thus, the key research question reads as this: what the correlation should be between the fulfilment of the regional strategy of education development and the development of the tools for the assessment of the efficiency of education managers.

Method-wisely, to approach this research question, the authors monitored the situation with education strategy development in the Russian regions and the federal rating of the school education quality in the regions for 2019 (published by Rosobrnadzor in 2021). The focal point here was the availability of the strategic documents aimed at the development of the education system in the region. The analysis of the regional strategies for the development of education showed that those strategies were either integral parts of the holistic strategies for the social and economic development of the regions, or separate concepts that were guided by the municipal development strategies. A relevant methodological toolkit was developed for the research sample study, i.e. for the content analysis of the regional documents. The research sample included 21 regions from the 8 federal districts of the Russian Federation. Those were the regions with the maximum numbers of the inhabitants aged between 3 and 18 years, i.e. the maximum numbers of those in general education.

As a result of the research question resolution, the problem areas were identified, and recommendations were proposed for the development of the tools for the assessment of the efficiency – and relevant employability decision-making – of education managers on the basis of the successful realization of the regional education development strategies, i.e. in conjunction with the solution of problems in the regional education. As well, guidelines are there on the career training, professional development, and employability enhancement of the heads of the local and regional education authorities in terms of their effectiveness and efficiency.

Keywords:

Efficiency Assessment Tools, Managers Professional Development, Employability, Education Leadership, Education Managers, Education Quality, Education Strategy.