Daily Digest for 94-06-17 (fwd)
Sender: NATASHA@ibpm.serpukhov.su
Subject: Daily Digest for 94-06-17
Table of Contents
WHAT'S NEW . . .
#01-17 June 94 Information on the Center for Civil Society International
#02-17 June 94 IREX Russian Teaching Assistants Program (RTAP)
#03-17 June 94 US-Russian teleconferencing facility at Brown Univeristy
#04-17 June 94 Summary of Grants Awarded in Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova
by the Eurasia Foundation
#05-17 June 94 Article about "russification" of different software
#06-17 June 94 Window-to-Russia (TM) WWW Server
#07-17 June 94 New pointer to Kobler Currency Converter
#08-17 June 94 Updated issues of "Za Nauku" (science page), RUSAG-L Current
Events and What's New, and "Computer Press"
RECENT EMAIL . . .
#01-17 June 94 Sender: "mille157@maroon.tc.umn.edu"
Subject: Internet in Russia, ETC
#02-17 June 94 Sender: Yash Holbrook (jwholbro@ouray.Denver.Colorado.EDU)
Subject: Seeking information on Russian immigres in U.S.
#03-17 June 94 Sender: Caroline Arnold (caroline@cua3.csuohio.edu)
Subject: Friends & Partners
#04-17 June 94 Sender: firstum@earlham.edu
Subject: Russian birthday song (and boost for APC)
#05-17 June 94 Sender: david b elliott (dbelliot@willamette.edu)
Subject: (temporary) unsubscribe
#06-17 June 94 Sender: Greg Wickenburg (greg@isumataq.eskimo.com)
Subject: exchange hats ?
#07-17 June 94 Sender: mac@maine.maine.edu (Dennis McConnell)
Subject: Staffing for Privatization Project in Russia
#08-17 June 94 Sender: funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu
(Funding Opportunities System)
Subject: Russian Teaching Assistants Program
#09-17 June 94 Sender: funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu
(Funding Opportunities System)
Subject: Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Training
Grants
#10-17 June 94 Sender: funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu
(Funding Opportunities System)
Subject: Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad
Training Grants
#11-17 June 94 Sender: IVANOV@fs2.unicor.free.net
Subject: Complex Evaluative System of Self-examination,
APPENDIX: LISTSERV address & basic procedures
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WHAT'S NEW . . .
* Information on the Center for Civil Society International is available
from the funding and exchange page. The purpose of Center for Civil
Society International is to support and promote international activities
by American voluntary organizations and independent associations that
strengthen institutions of pluralistic, law-based, and market-oriented
societies worldwide.
* Also from the funding page, information on the IREX Russian Teaching
Assistants Program (RTAP), a new program sponsored by the Fulbright Teacher
Exchange Branch of the United States Information Agency, which will pair 60
Russian participants with U.S. universities to serve as teaching
assistants during the 1994-95 academic year.
* From the telecommunications page, we have placed some information about
the US-Russian teleconferencing facility at Brown Univeristy. Their
two-way videoconferencing link, connecting points all over the US with
Moscow via satellite, is a non-profit service intended to facilitate and
enhance academic, scientific, and non-profit exchange.
* From the funding and exchange page, we have placed a pointer to
Summary of Grants Awarded in Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova by the
Eurasia Foundation.
* We have placed a pointer to the Window-to-Russia (TM) WWW server.
This is a Moscow-based project by Relcom Corporation, initiated to
give the worldwide network community the means of WWW access to the
variety of information resources from and about Russia. An excellent
WWW server with a LOT of information (including a lot of nice graphics).
This is available from the "More Information Resources" page.
* From the Economics page, we have placed a pointer to the Kobler Currency
Converter. Here, you can find international currency exchange rates
relative to the US Dollar, to the Russian Ruble, and to other world
currencies.
* From the Cyrillic page, we have placed a pointer to Sergei Naumov's
article about "russification" of different software (including Mosaic).
* Updated issues of "Za Nauku" (science page), RUSAG-L Current Events
and What's New, and "Computer Press" by INFO-MAG
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E-MAIL POSTINGS . . .
Please continue to send your e-mail to friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu.
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Sender: "mille157@maroon.tc.umn.edu"
Subject: Internet in Russia, ETC
Greetings Friends!
I've been working in Russia for the past 8 years (in media and food
distribution ..strange combination -- I know!). I work mostly from Moscow,
St. Petersburg and Minneapolis (Minnesota). My question is...I'm sending
two new employees over to St. Petersburg and they want to use internet from
St. Petersburg. Does anyone know the best/least expensive server in St.
Pete? I've been told about "Relcom" but have no idea how to find them.
Any ideas? By the way...if anyone ends up in St. Petersburg and wants to
hang out with some nice Americans -- let me know!
Thanks.
Sally (Blaze Productions)
mille157@maroon.tc.umn.edu
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Sender: Yash Holbrook (jwholbro@ouray.Denver.Colorado.EDU)
Subject: Seeking information on Russian immigres in U.S.
Hello Friends and Partners,
A while ago I sent a message about this but I guess it got lost in the
mail. I am trying to find out some information on Russian "populations"
in the U.S. Demographic-type stuff for some research I'm doing. My
time-frame is for the last 5 years.
Where are Russian immigres going in the U.S.?
Are there concentrations in certain cities/regions/states? (New
York? San Francisco?)
What social strata are they coming from? Are they professionals,
laborers, teachers...?
Where are Russian engineers going, for example?
Ages, families?
Particularly interested in Colorado. Same types of questions apply.
I would greatly appreciate any pointers on where to find these types of
information, as well as any substantive information Friends and Partners
might be willing to share.
Bol'shoye spasibo!!
Yash Holbrook (jwholbro@ouray.denver.colorado.edu)
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Sender: firstum@earlham.edu
Subject: Russian birthday song (and boost for APC)
Here is a minor item after all the worthy submissions which have inspired
and impressed you!
I would like to know whether there is a song which is a Russian equivalent
of the American song, "Happy Birthday to You," typically sung at birthday
parties. We are arranging a birthday party for a Russian-speaker and would
love to be able to sing such a song then. If the words fit the American
tune, so much the better, but we'd be willing to try anything.
Thanks!
Johan Maurer, Friends United Meeting
Richmond, Indiana, USA
firstum@earlham.edu (or) 72763.366@compuserve.com
PS: I saw the on-line brochure for the Association for Progressive Com-
munications and want to add my unsolicited endorsement. I was very happily
on PeaceNet for three years. Aside from the e-mail facilities, I
especially appreciated the excellent conferences on economic development
and similar topics. Great access to news from Latin America and Africa.
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Sender: Caroline Arnold (caroline@cua3.csuohio.edu)
Subject: Friends & Partners
Let me introduce myself: Caroline Arnold, wearer of many hats. During the
day I work in Cleveland; in the evening I work in my garden in Kent, 30
miles out of the city. I also have a guest account for Internet access
through the College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University.
Finally, I am a member of the Cleveland City Club, one of ou roldest and
most distinguished free speech foruns, which brings meto the reason for
this inquiry.
A year or so ago Alan Davis, Executive Director of the City Club,and some
of the members who had long been active in Cleveland's partner city
arrangement with Volgograd, Russia, set out to help their friends in
Volgograd establish a "City Club" type forum in their city.
This May the first Volgograd Free Speech Forum was held, attended by 14
City Club members and supported by many more.
An important part of nurturing this project will be good communications,
and although I am barely more than a novice atthis, I have offered to
explore ways the Internet could support what we are doing.
Any help you can offer would be most appreciated. We would especially
like to try to locate Internet users in Volgograd.
I can be reached at: caroline@cua3.csuohio.edu
daytime phone 216)522)7095
evening phone 216)678)6218
Thanks!
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Sender: david b elliott (dbelliot@willamette.edu)
Subject: Unsubscribe.
Due to me fact that I will going to Europe to study, I will not have a
steady internet access for the next two months. I do not want to be cut
off from the list forever, but must ask that yuo stop sending me
information until I request it again.
Thanks, and keep up the good work.
david
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Sender: Greg Wickenburg (greg@isumataq.eskimo.com)
Subject: exchange hats ?
Hello! I like to meet new people from around the world. I have started a
small hat collection, about 10 right now. Most are local sports teams
hats, but 1 is from Bangkok. I met a guy on the computer and we exchanged
hats. I sent him a local basketball team hat (Seattle Sonics) and he sent
me a cap with traditional Bangkok design on it. It was reall nice.
I was wondering if it was OK or if anyone in Russia wanted to exchange
something for a hat? I'm mostly interested in a traditional style hat of
your culture or a baseball type cap with something writen in Russian on
it. I could send something back of your choice?
A little about me: I'm 29 years old, a male, live in Seattle. I started
using a computer a few years ago because I was bored sitting around my
house. 12 years ago I broke my neck and was paralyzed from the shoulders
down. So I got started playing around on a computer. I've been on the
Internet for about 5 week now. I've been doing a little work on the
computer with a graphics program, making logos, flyers B&W, takeout
menus, etc. Just a few so far. Well, that's a little about me. I bought a
book awhile ago called A day in the life of the Soviet Union. I was a
neet book. A bunch of photographers spread accross the former Soviet
Union taking pictures for 1 day. Them put them all in a neet book. I also
got the Day in the United States too.
Well If you are interested in an exchange let me know... Thanks
greg@eskimo.com
greg@isumataq.eskimo.com
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Sender: mac@maine.maine.edu (Dennis McConnell)
Subject: Staffing for Privatization Project in Russia
CARANA Corporation, a U.S.-based international management con-
sulting firm, is seeking experienced business managers and con-
sultants to serve in long-term resident positions in Russia.
JOB DESCRIPTION: Under the auspices of the U.S. Agency for Inter-
national Development, CARANA will open three Local Privatization
Centers [LPCs] in selected Russian cities, to channel technical
assistance to recently privatized Russian companies. The LPCs
will be part of the newly-formed Russian Privatization Center,
and will serve to identify and direct western business expertise
to Russian companies that have taken initial steps in the transi-
tion to open market operations. The LPCs will be analogous to
regional offices of a large management consulting firm. Each LPC
will have a distinct geographic market encompassing 3 or 4 ob-
lasts, and a menu of services to offer, including: corporate
restructuring, preparation of strategic plans, development of
financial, market and human resource management systems, opera-
tions management and quality control.
The incumbents will serve for a period of at least one year (with
probable extension for a second year) on a team of Russian and
American professionals who will be responsible for: (1) setting
up and operating the LPCs, including training of Russian national
staff members to perform business-related services; (2) identify-
ing business management training, direct technical assistance,
and commercial counseling needs of client companies; (3) develop-
ment of pilot corporate restructuring activities for large scale
industrial firms; and (4) specifying consulting service interven-
tions to be performed by LPC staff and expatriate advisors, and
monitoring and managing the work of teams of expatriate advisors
to assure cost effective results.
QUALIFICATIONS: Candidates must meet the following qualifications
to be considered:
* Senior business management experience (industrial management
preferred) or extensive experience as a business consultant;
* A degree in business management, finance, or economics
* Experience working with senior managers on critical operation-
issues as well as corporate restructuring;
* Demonstrated project management, staff development/
training skills
* Fluency in Russian (highly desirable)
* Overseas business management experience
COMPENSATION: Commensurate with professional salary history and
educational attainments as defined under USAID rules and pro-
cedures, including full company benefits - housing, transporta-
tion, medical, incidental costs and post differential allowance.
If you have interest in serving in such a position, and meet or
exceed the qualifications listed above, please contact Robert
Otto or Maribeth Murphy at CARANA's Arlington, Virginia office.
Tel: [703] 243-1700 and fax a copy of your CV to [703] 243-0471.
If you prefer to dispatch your CV via e-mail, please feel free to
contact me at the coordinates provided below.
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* DR. DENNIS MCCONNELL * TEL: +1.207.581.1988 *
* EASTERN EUROPEAN ENTERPRISE NETWORK * FAX: +1.207.581.1956 *
* COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION * TLX: 62955628 *
* UNIVERSITY OF MAINE * *
* ORONO, MAINE 04469-5723 U.S.A. * MAC@MAINE.MAINE.EDU *
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Sender: funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu (Funding Opportunities System)
Subject: Russian Teaching Assistants Program
Russian Teaching Assistants Program
AGENCY: International Research and Exchanges Board
PROGRAM: The International Research and Exchanges Board
(IREX) has administered academic exchanges with the former
Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe since 1968, and
promotes innovative formats for scholarly and policy
cooperation with the region. IREX is pleased to introduce
the Russian Teaching Assistants Program (RTAP), a new
program sponsored by the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Branch
of the United States Information Agency, which will pair 60
Russian participants with U.S. universities to serve as
teaching assistants during the 1994-95 academic year. The
program will provide participants with the opportunity to
take an active part in the teaching process at U.S. academic
institutions and to become familiar with the most up-to-date
U.S. teaching methods, aids, curricula and technology at
both the secondary and post-secondary levels.
QUALIFICATIONS: U.S. two- and four-year colleges,
universities and technical schools will submit completed
applications to host Russian participants to IREX by Friday,
July 1, 1994.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Foundation Program Announcement, 06/14
DEADLINES: 07/01/94
CONTACT:
1616 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
ATTN: Susan Pelton
PHONE: 202 628 8188
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Sender: funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu (Funding Opportunities System)
Subject: Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Training Grants
Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Training Grants
AGENCY: Department of Education
PROGRAM: The Education Department (ED) is inviting
applications for research, training and curriculum
development projects by groups of teachers, university
faculty and undergraduate and graduate students working in
foreign countries. ED will fund only projects in sub-
Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, East Asia,
Southeast Asia and the Pacific, East Central Europe, the
Near East and North Africa, and South Asia. ED funds four
types of projects. Short-term seminars usually last six
weeks and focus on a specific aspect of areas studies to
help group members intergrate international studies into a
school district or institution's general curriculum.
Curriculum development projects feature teams of teachers,
administrators and/or university faculty members who spend
six to eight weeks in a foreign country to develop or
acquire resource materials for modern foreign language or
area studies curricula. Group research or study and
advanced overseas intensive language projects last two to 12
months.
QUALIFICATIONS: Higher education institutions, state
education agencies and private nonprofit education
organizations.
MONETARY SUPPORT: Approximately 25 grants ranging from
$30,000 to $70,000.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Federal Register, 06/10/94 pg. 30190
DEADLINES: 10/21/94
CONTACT:
Office of Postsecondary Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Room 3052
Washington, DC 20202-5332
ATTN: Lungching Chiao, Ph.D.
PHONE: 202 732 6061
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Sender: funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu (Funding Opportunities System)
Subject: Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Training Grants
Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Training Grants
AGENCY: Department of Education
PROGRAM: Grants help universities and colleges strengthen
their language and area studies programs by enabling faculty
members to conduct research abroad in order to improve their
language skills and their knowledge of the cultures on which
their academic interests focus. Financial provisions include
a stipend in lieu of salary; cost of airfare for award
recipient only; baggage allowance; project allowance to
purchase expendable materials, services and supplies, fees
to foreign institutions, and local travel expenditures.
Research in India may be supported by rupee funds.
QUALIFICATIONS: Higher education institutions.
MONETARY SUPPORT: Approximately 22 faculty research grants
averaging $38,000 each.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Federal Register, 06/10/94 pg. 30190
DEADLINES: 10/28/94
CONTACT:
Office of Postsecondary Education
Center for International Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202-5331
ATTN: Karla Ver Bryck Block
PHONE: 202 732 6073
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Sender: IVANOV@fs2.unicor.free.net
Subject: Complex Evaluative System of Self-examination,
2.0
Kolomiets B.K.
Complex Evaluative System of Self-examination,
On-site Evaluation, and Accreditation of Higher
Educational Establishments
Part 1.
Methodies did, M.: Research Centre, 1994 -105 p. (Russian
text on a diskette).
This work on the basis of system analysis of the condititions
of home and fereign systems of on-site evaluation deals with
the solution of the task of elaborating the complex evaluation,
and accreditation of higher educational establishment, their
specialities or fields of edication (CES) on the base of dutomatised
System of Expert Evaluation - ASEE.
The elaboration of CES is viewed as a process of educational
engineering, bringing todether system analysis and system projecting,
facts, accumulated from such fields as pedagogics, social
psychology, administration theory, facts from other fields.
As a totality of subsystems of a multilevel system of higher
edicational administration, and also a multilevel system of gua-
lity control in higher edication, the effectiveness of CES ASEE is
estimated in relation to the following general criteria: _validity,
reliability, objectivity, completeness of information, its
collection, and keeping, stability of CES; _adaptivity of the who-
le system and its evaluative models to peculiarities of self -
examination, licensing, on-site evaluation and accreditation,
publiss interests as a whole, and concrete higher educational es-
tablishments and their specialities, to interests of parties, sup-
porting the idea of creating an international system of higher
educational establishments ' accreditation; _comparability - com-
parability among different systems of higher education (SHE) -
specialities, fields of study, higher edicational establishments,
their amalgamations, etc; _technologial ability .- exploitational
convience, "capacity" of CES; _economic value.
The evaluative model (EM) is viewed as a totality of indi-
cators, corresponding scales and standards.
The task of answering these criteria is solved by means of
combining original methodological and methodics mechanisms and
elaborations, including conceptions of educational systems inva-
riants, system of multi-step comprovises process provideing bet-
ter adaptivity of CES. The system offers a totality of evaluative
models with set relations: the EM family, regulated in relation
to classes (levels) of accreditation (the highest class - corres-
ponding to the best international standerds, norms, the lowest
class - conventional accreditation); the EM family, received by
means of successive agregation of indicators' meanings; combina-
tion of EM of different higher educational establishments' speci-
alities, etc.
The basis of the whole system of evaluative models is a
"tree" of concepts, the upper part of which is formed by a gene-
ral concept of a higher educational establishment (EE), on the
lower level - concepts of different types of EE (higher, compre-
hensive, etc.); then follow consepts of different forms of teac-
hing programs, and EE (pedagogical, technical, medical, and so
on). A concept of each form and type of EE is formed as a result
of synthesis of particular concepts (and system criteria), making
a corresponding conceptional invariant or a core. A concept of a
concrete speciality, EE is to be formed by means of adding to the
core their own, particular coucepts, which take into account the-
ir individuality. Every particular concept is represented in EM
by its own indicators, scales, standards. I.e. a tree of evalua-
tive models can be built according to the concepts' tree.
In order to provide the integrity and completeness of evalu-
ative models (EM), their maximum correspondence to concepts - mo-
dels of higher educational establishments, their specialities,
sets of indicators include report indicators, as well as guality
indicators, evaluated by experts, which provides the orientation
of EM towards quality evaluation of educational systems.
The core of evaluative model includes: complex quality eva-
luation of higher edicational establishments' graduates of a spe-
ciality; evaluation of aims and contents of edication, educatio-
nal programs, a higher educationalestablishments potential, condi-
tions for the stydy and creative work, institutional climate.
The system ground for the necessity of such EM structure is
given.
The ground for the structure of graduates' complex quality
evaluation is given, using the concept of invariants in
the contents of education, and the analysis of possibilities for
the evaluation of these qualities. Procedures for adapting CES,
and for rolling up indicators' meanings - building agregated gro-
up, and integral evaluations of interchangeable and non - interc-
hangeable indicators - filters are offered, proceeding from uni-
ted positions of the concept - courpromise' process.
The basis, the core of the means for evaluating the quality
of graduates - professional, situational, and other tests, indi-
cators of diploma projects' and works' quality is formed by in-
variants of educational requirements or invariant activity tasks.
Such approach allows the criteria of comparability and adap-
tivity - to compare heterogeneous objects of evaluation - diffe-
rent specialities, educational programs, fields of stydy, EE on
the basis of common cores of their evaluative models. Adaptation
to a concrete object of evaluation is realized first on the con-
ceptual level, then on the level of EM.
Such adaptivity of CES allows to use it for licencing,
on-site evaluation, multilevel accreditation, self-examination of
EE, from the one hand. From the other - it allows to conduct pub-
lic policy, flexible public administration in respect of educati-
onal system by means of educational invariants represented in
tests by means of conceptual invariats, and corresponding in-
variants - cores of EM. With all this higher educational estab-
lishments preserve necessary autonomy and academic freedoms envi-
saged by law.
Futher means for answering the above given criteria, and in
the first place technological convenience, reliability, economi-
cal value are reached by using the Automatised System of Expert
Evaluation - ASEE. ASEE fulfils the functions of keeping, proces-
sing, analising of information, multilevel agregation of indica-
tors' meanings, calculation of the recommended class or level of
accreditation. Conceptual basis for agregation algorhythms is
non-interchangeable and interchangeable indicators-filters.
Besides, ASEE carries out subtle coordination of individual
expert evaluations for accrediting organs in making more qualita-
tive, grounded decisions, forming of standards and scales on set
algorhythms.
The above indicated properties of CES have allowed to adapt
if for the main types of educational establisments, as the result
successful experiments have been conducted on self-examination,
on-site evaluation, and accreditation of a number of higher edu-
cational establisments' specialities, comprehensive schools, col-
leges, gymnasia, (licees, etc).
The work offers a set of indicators, composed on the basis
of the above given conception, taking into account accreditation
indicators of American universities, evaluation indicators of Eu-
ropean universities, expertise from the participants of two wor-
king groups in Research Center,and final expertise from the State
Inspection of the Russian Federation for higher educational es-
tablishments' on-site evaluation. These experts have elaborated
other components of experimental evaluative models of universiti-
es',technical and medical higher edicational establishments' spe-
cialities weights, tentative normatives, and filters.
On the basis of these evaluative models State Inspection to-
gether with the Reseach Centre complete the first broadscale ex-
periment on self-examination and on-sile evaluation of speciali-
ties and higher educational establishments.Automatised processing
and analysis of the received information is carried out in ASEE.
The work offers the methodics and technology of higher edu-
cational establishments' and specialities' self - examination,
worked out by the researchers of the Research Centre and its
branch in Cheljabinsk Technical University.
This methodics can be used in all types of external higher
educational establishments' evaluations, their specialities - in
case of their on - site evaluations, licencing and accreditation.
High adaptational possibilities of CES-ASEE allow to use it for
the needs of international systems of higher educational estab-
lishments' accreditation, which are under formation, where the
solution of problems of concordance of different higher educatio-
nal establisments' conceptoins, approaches towards their evalua-
tion, different indicators and other components of evaluative mo-
dels is especially urgent.
The Russian Federation The Moscow State Institute
State Committee for of Steel and Alloys (Tech-
Higher Education nological University)
Research Centre for the The A.N.Kosyguin Moscow
Problems of Quality in State Textile Academy
Specialists ' Training
The Petrovskaya Academy of
Sciences and Arts.
Department of Education
The Academy for the Problems
of Quality.
St.-Petersburg Department
The Peasant Academic University
Third Symposium
QUALIMETRY OF A HUMAN BEING AND EDUCATION:
METHODOLOGY AND PRACTICE.
Invitation and Information Letter
(Moscow, September 14-16, 1994)
Moscow, 1994
Dear ___________________________________________
We invete you to take part in the work of the Third Sym-
posium on the theme: "Qualimetry of a Human Being and Educati-
on: Methodology and Practice", which will take place on Sep-
tember 14-16, 1994 in Moscow on the basis of the Research
Centre for the Problems of Quality in Specialists'Training,
the Russian Federation State Committee for Higher Education.
_Organizers of the Symposium:
- academician-secretary of the Petrovskaya Academy of
Sciences and Arts, Department of Education professor of the
Research Centre for the Problems of Quality in Specia-
lists'Training, doctor of economical sciences Subetto Alexan-
der Ivanovich;
- derector of Research Centre for the Problems of Quality
in Specialists'Training, doctor of technical sciences Selezne-
va Nadezhda Alekseevna.
_Principal priorities of the Third Symposium:
1. Further discussion of the problems of qualimetry of a
human being in education: system, psychological, psycho-phisi-
cal, physiological, pedagogical, sociological aspects, integ-
ral typology of a human being, evaluation and system quality
diagnoses of a human being, the problem of registration of on-
togenesis regularities in the methodology of diagnosis and
evaluation, disclosure of a system nature of a human being (a
human being as a system of an organismic type).
2. Qualimetry of social intellect.
3. Reflexive qualimetry: the role of reflexion in the
system of human evaluation, interiorization of external evalu-
ations by a human being, reflexive control through reflection
over evaluations, the problem of ethir evaluative code in pe-
dagogics.
4. Test qualimetry. The problem of tests typology and
projecting. Tests in qualimetry of a human being and tests in
pedagogical qualimetry. The problem of theoretical principles
of cheching tests validity. The problem of discearning "tests"
from other means of evaluation.
5. Marks and stimuli. Discussing a stimuling function of
marks ("encouraging" and "penalty"). Peculiarities in the usa-
ge of marks in pre-school and elementrary education.
6. Rising the question about the possible existence of
"psychological evaluation". "Psychology of evaluations" and
"psychology of reflexion".
7. Evaluative complixes in the mechanisms of accreditati-
on and certification. Methodology of self-examination and qua-
lity on-site-evaluation in higher educational establishments.
8. National system of quality evaluation in education in
Russia. The problem of standartization of evalutive systems
and their correction.
9. Development of the theory of qualimetry. The notion of
a rating system of evaluation. Possible types of rating scales
and rating construction.
10. Qualimetry and quality control in education. Quali-
metry of "quality control". Effectiviness as a measure of qua-
lity of systems and processes in education. Types of effecti-
veness and principles of their measurement.
11. Qualimetry of educational systems in dynamics. Con-
nection among qualimetry of educational systems and system-ge-
netics, socio-genetics, educational genetics and cyclic deve-
lopment doctrines.
12.Analysis of foreign experience in quality evaluation
in education.
13. Quality evaluation systems of teaching and learning
on different levels. Functioning quality evaluation and educa-
tional systems development quality evaluation (the quality
principle quality of quality control).
14. The experience in projecting and introduction of com-
puter qualimetric technologies.
Organizers of the Symposium invite future participants
send theses of the reports, 4 typewritten pages in size, typed
in 1,5 intervals, observing the proposed priorities in the
contents of theses.
Theses for publication together with the matirials of the
Symposium of the same name are received before June 25, 1994.
Requests for making reports (without publication) for
inclusion into the Programme are received before July 20, 1994.
Theses are be sent on the following adress:
105318 Moscow, Izmailovskoe shosse, 4. Research Centre
for the Problems of Quality in Specialists'Training.
Secretaries:
Shtyrina Irina Alexandrovna
Fedko Tatyana Ivanovna
Telephone for reference: 8-(095)-369-42-84
8-(095)-369-42-83
Fax: 8-(095)-369-58-13.
The programme will be sent to the participants of the
Symposium, who sent their consent for participation, not later
July 10, 1994.
_Information for the Participants from the SNG Countries
Participants of the Symposium from the SNG Countries, be-
sides authors of the reports, included into the progamme,
transfer organizational fee for participation - 5.000 roubles
- on the account N 61120280 of the Research Centre in the Per-
vomaiskoe Department of the Moscow Industrial Bank, MFO N
201177.
_Information for the Foreign Participants of the Symposium
Organizational fee for the foreign participants - $ 10 -
is paid in on the arrival at the Symposium. Requests for par-
ticipation and accomodation at the hotel guaranteed for pay-
ment are to be sent not later, then 1,5 months before the Sym-
posium, i.e. before August 1, 1994.
The given invitation serves as a basis for participation
in the Symposium.
Travelling expenses nourishment, accomodation fee are pa-
id by the participants from the SNG Countries and by the fore-
ign participants of the Symposium on the arrival.
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