A model of management of methodological activity of a reference school based on the identification potential of a regional system for assessing the quality of education

Introduction. One of the conditions for improvement the quality of students' educational results is considered the improving the quality of human resources, as well as the arranging of methodological activities taking into account the analysis of educational results of students. It becomes important to search for to improve the quality of education in reference schools, which become the center of the methodical activities of this school district, and it is organized according to the principle of concentration and interchangeability of resources. The purpose of the research is to develop and to justify the model of management methodological activities of the reference school, aimed at filling the professional deficits of teaching staff of the school district, based on the identification potential of the regional system for assessing the quality of general education. Materials and methods. The study involved teaching staff of 10 reference schools and school districts, including 66 rural educational organizations of the Kirov region (Russia). The following methods were used: theoretical analysis, modeling, experimental work, statistical criterion of χ2 -Pearson. The measuring tools are: an author's questionnaire by the type of academic heading to identify the level of methodological competence of the teacher and the tasks of the All-Russian verification works on the Russian language and mathematics for schoolchildren. Results. A connection has been established between 6 functions of the methodological activity of the reference school and 7 components of the identification potential of the regional educational quality assessment system. The effectiveness of the construction of the methodological activity of the reference school based on the developed model through the fixation of facts is empirically substantiated: a) using descriptive statistics (in the experimental group, the proportion of teachers with a sufficient level of methodological competence increased (Russian ‒ from 32% to 77%, mathematics ‒ from 37% to 81%). 23% of Russian language teachers and 19% of mathematics teachers of the experimental group had a high level of methodological competence at the control stage, which was not revealed at the ascertaining stage); b) using evidence-based statistics: application of the χ2 -Pearson statistical criterion. After conducting experimental work, the significance of the differences between the experimental and control groups in terms of methodological competence is χ2 = 74.465 for teachers of the Russian language and χ2 = 58.329 for teachers of mathematics.This indicates a statistically significant positive shift in the development of methodological competence of teachers in the experimental group. Conclusion. The quality of students' academic results is largely determined by the quality of the methodological work organized in the reference school. An effective resource for improving the quality of learning outcomes is the identification potential of the regional educational quality assessment system and the management of methodological activities in the school district based on it.