Assessing ICT Competency in Teachers In Relation to Requirements of the Professional Standard for Teachers

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Abstract

The paper describes conceptual approaches to the assessment of ICT competency in teachers following requirements of the professional standard for teachers. It provides an analysis of the existing approaches. ICT competency is considered as a teacher’s ability to plan, organize and implement teaching/learning activity in an educational context according to the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard in General Education, to actively participate in the development of an educational organization, and to continue to develop professionally. The paper outlines the authors’ approach to designing test frameworks for ICT competency assessment. The materials of this paper represent the outcomes of a research carried out by the Federal Institute for Education Development on the topic “Conceptual Approaches to Assessing ICT Competency in Teachers with Regard to the Professional Standard”. This paper was written as a part of work carried out for the Ministry of Education and Science № 27.302.2016/НМ on the topic «Conceptual Approaches to Assessing ICT Competency in Teachers with Regard to the Professional Standard».

General Information

Keywords: ICT competency in teachers, professional standard for teachers, work functions, work actions, teacher’s qualification, assessment, test framework

Journal rubric: Pedagogical Education

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/pse.2016210404

For citation: Avdeyeva S.M., Nikulicheva N.V., Khapayeva S.S., Zaichkina O.I. Assessing ICT Competency in Teachers In Relation to Requirements of the Professional Standard for Teachers. Psikhologicheskaya nauka i obrazovanie = Psychological Science and Education, 2016. Vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 40–49. DOI: 10.17759/pse.2016210404. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Svetlana M. Avdeyeva, PhD in Engineering, Head of the Laboratory for Measuring New Constructs and Test Design, Institute of Education, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3599-5138, e-mail: savdeeva@hse.ru

Natalia V. Nikulicheva, PhD in Education, Head of the Department of Distance Learning, Center for Informational Technologies, Resources and Networking in Education, Federal Institute for Education Development, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: nikulicheva@mail.ru

Svetlana S. Khapayeva, PhD in Education, Associate Professor, Leading Research Fellow, Center for Information Technologies, Resources and Networking in Education, Federal Institute for Education Development, Moscow Region State University, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: hapaeva@mail.ru

Olga I. Zaichkina, Leading Research Fellow, Center for Information Technologies, Resources and Networking in Education, Federal Institute for Education Development, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: ozaichkina@gmail.com

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