Analysis of the content of dissertation research on the development of the school Olympiad movement in the late XX – early XXI centuries (using the example of the natural science cycle disciplines)

Abstract

Subject Olympiads as a form of development of student intellectual potential within the framework of traditional school education in the era of the scientific progress of society is more relevant than ever. Studying of the previous experience in the development of the school Olympiad movement provides material for understanding the principles of its further development. The purpose of the article is to analyze the materials of dissertational research by national authors, which reflect the problem of the development of the school Olympiad movement of the XX–XXI centuries. The author made an attempt to systematize the dissertation materials on the substantive aspects of the consideration of the problem of the school Olympiad movement. The analysis of dissertation materials made it possible to identify the main directions of studying the problem of school subject Olympiads in the dissertations of national authors (including the problem of selecting gifted students and their support within the framework of school education: consideration of the content and direct organization of school subject Olympiads; methodological support of the school Olympiad movement). The obtained results allow the author to divide dissertation research of the selected period into three groups, which were differentiated by the identified trends in studying the problem of school Olympiad movement development at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries (using the example of the disciplines of the natural science cycle).