Public Accreditation Research Articles

Does Public Accreditation Promote More State-Friendly Decisions at the Street Level?

When public administrators resolve disputes between citizens and other state officials, are they truly impartial? The question is imperative for evaluating resolutions made by street-level bureaucrats whom citizens often perceive as the face of public administration. This study examines the relationship between public accreditation and the tendency of street-level bureaucrats’ resolutions to accept the state’s arguments or the citizens’ claims. Using quantitative analysis of administrative lower-court rulings in Israeli tax disputes, the findings link public accreditation to state favoritism in street-level resolutions. Such an outcome, if not accounted for, may jeopardize procedural fairness and erode public trust in government.

Профессионально-общественная аккредитация как инструмент взаимодействия сферы высшего образования и работодателей

The field of education today cannot develop as a closed system, without taking into account the request formulated by employers. The contradiction between the requirements of employers and the results provided by educational organizations is one of the reasons for the decline in the quality of training. It is obvious that the dialogue between the sphere of education and the sphere of work should be based on clear mutual obligations. In many countries, the National Qualifications System (hereinafter referred to as the NSC) is used as a tool that allows building such a dialogue. In our country, according to the 238-FZ “On the independent Assessment of Qualifications”, this is an independent assessment of qualifications, just its introduction into the employment relationship “employer – applicant” and leads to those serious changes in the field of education as a supplier of qualified personnel for the labor market. In this regard, the article attempts to assess the methodological impact of the process of implementing an independent assessment of qualifications on the field of higher education through the created interaction tools, which include professional standards and the procedure of professional and public accreditation, as a system for verifying the fulfillment of their requirements. After all, it is necessary to be able to correctly assess the degree of achievement of the requirements of professional standards when students master the relevant educational programs of the university, and to focus on achieving this goal the process of designing the educational trajectory of future graduates. Because it is from the competent fulfillment of this condition that in the end the demand for trained personnel in the labor market, and, therefore, the educational program itself, which is already beneficial to the educational organization, will hang.

Assessment of the Competitiveness of Educational Programs Based on the Mechanism of Professional and Public Accreditation

Assessment of the Competitiveness of Educational Programs Based on the Mechanism of Professional and Public Accreditation

Professional and public accreditation as a management mechanism tool of socio-economic processes in the field of additional professional education

The article is devoted to the system analysis of organizations implementing programs of additional professional education as an element of the continuing education system in the Russian Federation. The article purpose is to determine the role of the professional public accreditation procedure in the management system of socio-economic processes in the field of additional professional education. According to the results of the study, the authors concluded that, having additional socio-economic effects, the procedure of the mandatory system of professional and public accreditation of organizations in the field of additional professional education can serve as one of the tools for the development of the educational activity management mechanism. The methodology of the research includes methods of analysis and synthesis, comparative method of cognition, methods of processing statistical information. The results of the study are valuable in developing a development strategy in the field of professional retraining and advanced training of employees from the state and commercial spheres.

Проблемы развития профессионально - общественной аккредитации образовательных программ

Рассматриваются актуальные вопросы проведения профессионально-общественной аккредитации. Констатируется, что системообразующий компонент модели профессионально-общественной аккредитации – критерии и показатели, пока не нашли своего должного научного обоснования. Поднимаются вопросы ведения реестра организаций и приводятся результаты анализа сайтов организаций, осуществляющих профессионально-общественную аккредитацию. The article deals with topical issues of professional and public accreditation. It is stated that the system-forming component of the model of professional and public accreditation – criteria and indicators, have not yet found their proper scientific justification. The issues of maintaining the register of organizations are raised and the results of the analysis of the websites of organizations that carry out professional and public accreditation are presented.

Профессионально-общественная аккредитация как инструмент повышения качества подготовки инженерных кадров для предприятий ракетно-космической отрасли

Рассматриваются особенности разработки основных профессиональных образовательных программ с учетом применения профессиональных стандартов, а также вопросы проведения профессионально-общественной аккредитации – инструмента оценки качества подготовки специалистов, в частности, для предприятий ракетно-космической отрасли. Анализируются результаты проведения профессионально-общественной аккредитации не только с точки зрения проведения экспертизы и собственно оценки образовательных программ, но и направлений их совершенствования на основе полученных рекомендаций в процессе проведения экспертизы. The features of the development of basic professional educational programs, taking into account the application of professional standards, as well as issues of professional and public accreditation as a tool for assessing the quality of training specialists, in particular for enterprises of the rocket and space industry, are considered. The results of professional and public accreditation are analyzed from the point of view of not only the examination and evaluation of educational programs, but also the directions of their improvement based on the recommendations received during the examination.

СОСТОЯНИЕ, ПРОБЛЕМЫ И ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОЙ ПОДГОТОВКИ В ОБЛАСТИ УПРАВЛЕНИЯ ПЕРСОНАЛОМ: МНЕНИЕ ВУЗОВ

The article presents the generalized results of a survey of universities as part of the regular labor market monitoring conducted by the Council for Professional Qualifications in the field of HR management. The survey data made it possible to draw a number of conclusions about the current state and quality of training in the field of HR management (current educational programs, forms and level of interaction between universities and employers, the demand for graduates and the compliance of their qualifications with the requirements of employers and professional standards), to identify the most significant problems and their causes, as well as assess the prospects (including the future of professional and public accreditation of educational programs, independent assessment of the qualifications of graduates, as well as the feasibility of maintaining HR management as an independent area of professional training) and the conditions for their implementation.

Образовательные партнерства в построении качественного педагогического образования

The article is devoted to the actual problem of the influence of partnership relations between pedagogical universities and employers on improving the quality of teacher training. The paper considers modern mechanisms of interaction between pedagogical universities and general education organizations that affect the improvement of the quality assessment system of teaching staff: a demonstration exam in the system of higher pedagogical education; professional and public accreditation of teacher training programs, as well as the formation of a professional expert community to assess the training of teaching staff and targeted training. The authors conclude that the training of qualified teaching staff requires the improvement of the educational process of pedagogical universities, and educational partnership is a condition for improving the quality of training of teaching staff. The empirical material was the results of a survey of the heads of educational organizations in the east of the Kaliningrad region. The practical significance of the article consists in the use of the results obtained in the system of higher pedagogical education in order to ensure high-quality professional training of graduates.

A way of 100 years

Novosibirsk College of Transport Technologies named after N.A. Lunin celebrates a centenary. All implemented professional educational programs have successfully passed professional and public accreditation, and the college has passed the procedure for independent assessment of the quality of the conditions for the implementation of educational activities. Every year the college graduates over 300 specialists, of which at least 90 % are employed at the enterprises of the West Siberian Railway.For high performance in the training of young specialists, the college was awarded diplomas and letters of thanks from the administration of the Novosibirsk Region, the management of Russian Railways and the West Siberian Railway. Repeatedly, the educational institution became the winner of the Interregional competition “Enterprise of the Year of Siberia” and the city competition “Novosibirsk Mark”, the college was listed on the Board of Honor of Novosibirsk.Currently, 1,235 students study at the college full-time, including 350 in the Baraba branch. Every year more than 1,000 people improve their qualifi cations, undergo training and retraining at the vocational training department. Consistently high indicators of the quality of education have been achieved: the state task for the admission of students, the safety of the contingent, and employment is carried out annually.

ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНО-ОБЩЕСТВЕННАЯ АККРЕДИТАЦИЯ ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОЙ ПРОГРАММЫ «ТЕХНОЛОГИЯ ПРИЗНАНИЯ КАЧЕСТВА ПОДГОТОВКИ БАКАЛАВРОВ ФИЗИЧЕСКОЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ»

The research purpose is to systematize the process of preparation for professional and public accreditation of the educational program, to describe the criteria and procedural actions of the university during the work of the expert commission. Methods and organization of the research. The analysis of regulatory legal acts and the synthesis of the organizational, methodological and pedagogical conditions necessary for the successful completion of professional and public accreditation were carried out.

120 years of the Siberian College of Transport and Construction

This year the Siberian College of Transport and Construction celebrates its 120th anniversary. The history of the college is interesting and unique, it has gone from technical classes to one of the largest secondary specialized educational institutions in the region. Today, the educational institution is actively changing, preserving the heritage and responding to the new requirements of a rapidly changing market.The Siberian College of Transport and Construction is confidently keeping pace with the times, constantly expanding its presence and recognition not only in the region, but also beyond its borders, increasing its material and technical base, opening new specialties at the request of employers and successfully passing professional public accreditation of existing ones.

INSTITUTIONAL AUDIT OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AS AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF ENSURING THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION IN UKRAINE

The article analyzes the experience of conducting institutional audits of general secondary education institutions in Ukraine in 2019-2021.
 The research highlights the positive aspects of institutional audit, including: audit by independent state structures with the participation of trained experts who have undergone training organized by the State Education Quality Service of Ukraine; unification and publication on the Service’s website the assessment directions, requirements/rules for the organization of educational processes, criteria, indicators and assessment tools; synchronous use of a wide range of tools in institutional audit procedures; clear regulation and experts’ unconditional compliance with the audit procedure; evaluation of the activities of educational institutions in their interaction with the founders and territorial communities; taking into account the opinion of the participants in the educational process; focusing the institutional audit on providing consulting assistance to the institutions; non-interference of the experts in the educational process; the possibility of carrying out separate assessment procedures remotely; granting the right to the experts, managers and/or founders of educational institutions to record the evaluation and inspection procedures by means of audio, photo and video means; the possibility of using the results of an institutional audit to generalize educational information and track the trends in the development of the educational sphere throughout Ukraine.
 The main problematic aspects of the audit are considered, including: the lack of procedures for assessing the quality of education in the institutional audit; the lack of consistency of the criteria and indicators for evaluating educational and management processes with regard to the content of the professional competencies of the teacher and the head of the educational institution, defined by the relevant professional standards; the inability of the State Education Quality Service of Ukraine to audit a significant number of educational institutions; the complexity of the institutional audit toolkit for evaluating educational and management processes of educational institutions.
 It is emphasized that measures are being taken in the educational sphere to eliminate the mentioned negative aspects. In particular, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine has approved the Procedure for accreditation and keeping a register of public professional associations and other legal entities that carry out independent evaluation of the quality of education and educational activities of general secondary education institutions, which will allow non-state structures to be involved in public accreditation of educational institutions. In order to provide assistance to the experts in the assessment of educational and management processes in the institutions of general secondary education, the State Education Quality Service of Ukraine has developed and implemented the EvaluEd information and analytical system.
 It has been concluded that the institutional audit should be supplemented with the procedures and tools for evaluating the quality of education. In addition, it is advisable to supplement the criteria and indicators for evaluating educational and management processes with the criteria and indicators that will make it possible to assess the language-communicative and emotional-ethical competence of the teacher, the competence of the education head regarding the organization of the activities of the educational institution on the basis of the external system of ensuring the quality of education, to more fully assess psychological competence of the teacher as well as the leadership and informational-digital competence of the head of the general secondary education institution.

Organizational and Pedagogical Problems of Additional Professional Education

The paper analyzes the basic requirements of professional and public accreditation to the organizational and pedagogical component of additional professional education. The research aims to analyze and characterize the main trends that determine the change in the requirements for the content evaluation and implementation of additional professional programs as one of the aspects of the professional education teacher. Based on the current trend analysis, the necessity of changes in additional professional programs is justified by (1) revision of the approach to the structure and content of additional professional programs, to teaching staff training ensuring their implementation; (2) solving the problem of the invariant and variable ratio of educational programs components; (3) considering the changes in qualification requirements, demands of the labor market, and employers to ensure the anticipatory character of specialists development.

Dual Master’s Programs as a Tool for the Formation of a Single Educational Space of the EAEU

The relevance of the topic of the article is due to the key role of higher education in the formation of the necessary compe tencies for the scientific, technological and industrial sphere of the economy of a modern state.Aim. The purpose of the article is to consider the methodological and practical issues of designing double degree master’s programs in the field of business education as one of the effective tools for the formation of a single educational space of the Eurasian Economic Union. The issues of development and implementation of joint educational programs are considered on the example of an international educational project developed at the Department of Business Informatics of the North-Western Institute of Management of the RANEPA. A substantive description of the project is given, the choice of a partner organization is substantiated, criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of the project implementation are formulated.Tasks. Give a meaningful description of the international educational project (relevance, relevance, structure, methodology and methodological novelty, competencies being formed, etc.), justify the choice of a partner organization and formulate criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of the implementation of an educational project.Methods. System approach and expert-analytical methods of research (flow methods of expertise, expert assessments).Results. The proposed methodological approach to the implementation of educational projects in the format of double diplomas allows solving the problems of internationalization of higher education, forming systems thinking, skills in working with large amounts of data and modern application packages, making non-standard decisions in the economy among students of master’s programs based on modern learning technologies. The conceptual level of the proposed approach is formed by the concepts of student-centered learning, building an individual learning trajectory for undergraduate students. The process-methodological level of the proposed approach allows the introduction of modern innovative network technologies for the implementation of the content of the disciplines of the economic mathematical cycle and the cycle of information technology, the adaptation of national educational systems to international standards and the formation of a competitive educational environment.Conclusions. The priority areas for the implementation of international educational projects are: transferring international programs to the status of network programs implemented with leading universities (including the development of double diploma programs); bringing international programs to European quality standards and requirements of international accreditation agencies; passing the international joint professional and public accreditation of international educational programs.

150th anniversary of the Moscow College of Transport

In 2022, the Moscow College of Transport of the Russian University of Transport celebrated its 150th anniversary.The history of the educational institution is inextricably linked with the history of the state. The stages of creation and formation of one of the oldest educational institutions that train personnel for the transport industry are considered. Over the years of the college’s existence, its names and structure have changed, one generation has been replaced by another, there have been many victories and achievements. And always at the helm were strong, competent, aching soul for the work entrusted to them leaders. The quality of student training has been repeatedly confirmed by professional and public accreditation. The rich one and a half century history of the educational institution testifi es to the established traditions and colossal experience in training personnel for the transport industry.College students are winners of national and regional WorldSkills championships, teachers are certified experts, developers of WorldSkills competencies. Since 2017, on the basis of the college, RUT university championships (MIIT) have been held annually according to WorldSkills standards, which bring together professionals from various regions of the Russian Federation at one site.The educational process of the college is organized on a modern laboratory base, formed, among other things, within the framework of the program of interaction between Russian Railways and university complexes of railway transport.

Orthopedic Surgery Fellowship Directors: Trends in Demographics, Education, Employment, and Institutional Familiarity.

Background: Fellowship directors are assumed to be distinguished in orthopedics, but the traits and training that have enabled them to achieve their leadership positions have not been assessed. Purpose: We sought to identify common demographics, research output, and educational trends of fellowship directors in orthopedics, with an emphasis on racial, ethnic, and gender diversity. Methods: We conducted a literature review to identify published studies on fellowship directors in orthopedic surgery and found 4 cross-sectional studies of fellowship directors in spine, arthroplasty, pediatrics, and sports medicine subspecialties. Another 4 accredited orthopedic subspecialties and their fellowship directors were identified using the American College of Graduate Medical Education Public Accreditation Data System for 2020-2021 and national fellowship directories. Data endpoints included race/ethnicity, age, sex, residency and fellowship training institutions, year of fellowship completion, year of hire at current institution, year of fellowship directors appointment, and h-index. The demographics and educational backgrounds for listed fellowship directors were collected from curricula vitae (CVs). Results: Of the 537 fellowship directors identified among 8 orthopedic subspecialties, the average age was 52.9 ± 2.2 years, 5.6% (N = 30) were women, 79.1% (N = 406) were white, 12.5% (N = 64) were Asian American, 3.7% (N = 19) were African American, 2.9% (N = 15) were Middle Eastern, and 1.7% (N = 9) were Hispanic/Latino. Oncology 20% (N = 4) had the highest percentage of female fellowship directors; 37.6% (N = 202) of fellowship directors were at the same institution they trained at for residency or fellowship. Their average h-index was 18.6 ± 3.7. Conclusion: This study of fellowship directors in orthopedics found that they have a high research output and a high level of institutional familiarity. We identified a need for greater diversity in these leadership positions in both gender and race/ethnicity.

Assessment of the relevance of the student survey results in the educational process

Many educational institutions implement feedback mechanisms in their activities, this also occurs according to the requirements of educational standards, public accreditation organizations, international quality standards. But it is not always clear how to competently and effectively use the data obtained due to the unsuitability of such data in its original raw form. The study is aimed at developing a methodology for filtering student reviews about the studied disciplines from irrelevant ones in order to further use them in the management system of an educational institution and the educational process. The study used the methods of statistical data analysis and estimation of the parameters of a logistic regression model using STATISTICA 10.0 and Jamovi 1.8.1 programs. Spearman's and Kendall's correlation coefficients were used to assess the direction and strength of the link between quantitative indicators. Cramer's V test was used to assess the relationship between dichotomous indicators. For clustering observations, the K-means method was used with the setting of measuring the minimum distances. The results of the study showed statistically significant relationships (p < 0.05) between indicators of educational activity and student feedback, which made it possible to use these indicators to classify reviews. The study using the cluster analysis made it possible to obtain the optimal number of clusters for solving the task of classifying and confirming the adequacy of the developed methodology. Thus, the correlation analysis showed a direct moderate relationship between irrelevant reviews obtained by the methodology and three-cluster classification at r = 0.70, and Cramer's V test showed a strong association with the results of three-cluster classification (0.70). Using the classification results as a training sample, a logistic regression model was built with an adequacy of 94.97%. The results of the study lead to the conclusion that the obtained methodology and the logistic regression model can be used to clean the initial feedback data from irrelevant reviews based on the indicators of students' learning activities.

Experience in preparing documentation for professional and public accreditation of educational programs in the field of training "Land Management and Cadastre"

The article considers the documentation for the passage of professional and public accreditation, using the example of educational programs "Land Management and Cadastres". These educational programs were accredited in 2021. Educational programs were highly appreciated due to the application of the problem-oriented project-based learning model in the educational process, as well as the integration of educational programs with the requirements of the professional community to the volume and level of professional competencies of students. The main results are presented by the algorithm of interaction of participants in the educational process, which takes into account the evaluation criteria of the educational program. The article also provides information on the criteria by which the evaluated programs scored the lowest number of points and provides recommendations on how to improve these indicators. The conclusion about the further integration of educational program partners into the educational process is made.

Оценка эффективности образовательных программ в области управления персоналом: вызовы и новые аспекты

The authors of the article, analyzing the experience of the implementation of educational programs for bachelor's, master's and programs of additional professional education in the field of personnel management, focus on the assessment of learning processes and its new aspects, the emergence of which is associated both with the development of learning formats and technologies, and with changes in regulatory and legal requirements for the content and conditions for the implementation of educational programs. The study made it possible to determine the main contours of the assessment of educational programs in the field of personnel management, including indicators and criteria of efficiency, subjects of assessment, the possibility of increasing the level of innovation, as well as to highlight a number of areas for further development and refinement of assessment elements, including the integration of formats and assessment results the effectiveness of educational programs conducted by various subjects and having a different nature of the obligation (state accreditation, independent professional and public accreditation), reflected in the criteria and procedures for assessing the increase in the use of new educational technologies, taking into account delayed learning outcomes.

About the problem of ensuringthe quality of activities organizations conducting professional and public accreditation in the system of higher education,and ways to solve it

About the problem of ensuringthe quality of activities organizations conducting professional and public accreditation in the system of higher education,and ways to solve it