International research of students’ achievements (IRSA): methodology, tools, results

Overview and methodology Since 2016, the Center for International Cooperation in Education Development (CICED) has been implementing the research project called International Research of Students’ Achievements (IRSA Project). The core objective of the project was defined as “to conduct cross-country research aimed at determining factors related to educational achievements in math among primary school students”.…

“Implementation of SAM methodology at secondary school physics course” webinar outcomes

An online workshop named “Implementation of Students’ Achievement Monitoring (SAM) methodology at secondary school physics course” was held on December 17, 2020. In course of the seminar, representatives of Moscow City University (MCU) shared their vision of further development of the SAM model in general and particularly its application to assess competence of pupils in…

Implementation of SAM methodology at secondary school physics course

An online workshop named “Implementation of Students’ Achievement Monitoring (SAM) methodology at secondary school physics course” will be held on December 17, 2020 at 11:00 Moscow time. The training moderator is Vladimir Lvovskiy, Cand. Sc. Psychology, Head of the Laboratory for Education Activity Content Designing at Moscow City University. You can get to know about…

EAOKO Conference 2020: How to effectively assess the quality of distance education?

The 9th Annual international conference of the Eurasian Association for Educational Assessment (EAOKO) was held on November 13-14, 2020. Supported by the READ program, the event went online for the first time due to the pandemic. Despite that more than 250 participants from 11 countries and 32 Russia regions took part at the conference, including…

EAOKO 9th Annual Conference

Eurasian Association for Educational Assessment (EAOKO) invites to join its 9th Annual Conference. The Conference has been arranged in collaboration with HSE Institute of Education with the support from the READ program. It will take place on November 13-14, 2020 as a series of online plenums, round table discussions and webinars, featuring representatives of leading…

International webinar on preparation to PISA and PIRLS was held for Uzbekistan

On August 24-25, 2020, the State Inspectorate for Supervision of Quality in Education of Uzbekistan in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and the Institute for Education Development Strategy of the Russian Academy of Education, organized a webinar named “Participation in international research as a motivating factor for human capital development.” Uzbekistan is joining the pool…

CICED issued its latest newsletter

Center for International Cooperation in Education Development (CICED) has recently issued its newsletter that overviews important events concerning education around the world for its subscribers. The new issue includes information on the new UN training programs, international organizations reports on global education issues and CICED’s own news. The newsletter (in Russian) is available here.

IRSA project participants will present its concept and outcomes at CIES-2020

IRSA project participants will present its concept and outcomes at CIES-2020

As a part of the poster session at CIES-2020 Annual Conference CICED representatives and researchers from participating countries will present concept, implementation process and mid-term results of the International Research of Students’ Achievements (IRSA). IRSA is focused on education quality improvement through regular thorough monitoring of student’s achievements in mathematics and determining their relationship with…

CICED experts will participate at CIES-2020 conference

The annual conference of Comparative & International Education Society (CIES) will be held on 22-26 of March 2020 in Miami. The theme for the CIES-2020 is  what environmental changes and their political, economic and social consequences entail for education.  During the roundtable discussion, organized by CICED, experts from Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan will deliver…

“Measuring math self-concept among middle schoolers: questionnaire development and validation”: CICED expert’s article at PME&Yandex conference proceedings

At the end of December 2019 conference papers of “Technology and psychology for Mathematics Education” conference were published. The event was organized jointly by International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (IGPME) and Yandex. The head of CICED Center for Evaluation and Research in Education Natalya Lebedeva took part at this event with an…