Evaluation of the effectiveness of competitive educational activities: analysis of the experience of using the methodology of structural equations modeling

Abstract

Introduction. The problem and the objective of scientific and methodological research of the issues of civil-patriotic education of young people are determined by the insufficiency of the used descriptive assessments of the results of educational work and the need to determine the possibilities of quantitative approaches in measuring the effectiveness of the educational process. Materials and methods. The SEM (Structural Equation Modeling) was used to study the data obtained as a result of the content analysis of essays submitted to the competition "The feat of a teacher during the Great Patriotic War", dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and 90th anniversary of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution "Ural State Pedagogical University". These essays were understood as a narrative, i.e., a literary text combining a description and explanation of events, actions in a person's life. The method of content analysis and SEM models of narratives that were used to process and present information are original and are subject to the intellectual property of the authors. The Results. An objective assessment of the result of educational work with young people in the context of the teaching profession is presented. A statistically significant relationship between educational results "Patriotism" and "Civic identity" is found, and the most significant educational result is identified – "Civic identity" and the least significant – "Subjective assessment", and the relationship between educational results "Professional activity" and "Civic identity" is identified. The high efficiency of the use of the competition for forming the civil identity of the participants was proved, as well as the insufficient one – for forming the ability to formulate their own (subjective) assessment; educational work on the formation of patriotic feelings at the same time allows the formation of the civic identity of students and vice versa); it is required to conduct purposeful educational work on the formation of civic identity in the professional activity of a teacher. Conclusion. It was concluded that the competitive event "The feat of a teacher during the Great Patriotic War" was an effective tool for preserving the historical memory and patriotic education of young people.