The abbreviation VPR (All-Russian Test Work) entered our lives in 2016. “Carry out a VPR”, “Prepare for a VPR”, “Cancel a VPR” sounds almost as familiar as “pass the Unified State Exam”. However, it does not prevent the reader from checking what he knows about VLOOKUP.
After the cancellation of final and intermediate exams (this happened in the 2000s), educational leaders lost the opportunity to make a continuous snapshot of schoolchildren’s knowledge. And only in 2016, in the wake of the success of the National Research on the Quality of Education, Russia decided to fill this gap with the help of uniform tests for the entire country.
Schools, municipalities and regional Departments of Education are recommended to analyze the results of the VPR and clarify whether the knowledge of schoolchildren corresponds to federal state standards.
Everything is fine, and everything is working. But this additional verification becomes a headache for teachers, parents and children.
NOT AN EXAM, BUT MONITORING
The All-Russian test is not an exam, but a monitoring that is carried out to determine the level of preparation of schoolchildren in all regions of Russia.
Therefore, VPR is regulated by Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation dated January 27, 2017 No. 69 “On monitoring the quality of education.”
This is the youngest of the monitoring studies in education. He is only two years old. But during this time, 95/% of all Russian schoolchildren have already taken part in it.
By the way, saying “pass the VPR” is not accurate. It would be more correct to “write VLOOKUP”.
MANDATORY OR NOT?
VPRs were conceived for voluntary testing of schoolchildren’s knowledge.
Today, VPR subjects are divided into compulsory and optional.
Optional VPR subjects are tested in the testing mode: they are chosen by the school itself to check the level of preparation of students.
In 2018, All-Russian testing is mandatory for grades 4 and 5, but not for grades 6 and 11.
But even in optional subjects, you cannot refuse to participate in the VPR: this decision is made not by the student or his parents, but by the school.
However, in reality, the school does not always choose its own subjects. The most common choice is school.
The decision is made by the regional Department or Ministry of Education. It is they who are tasked by Rosobrnadzor to form a representative sample of schools for conducting the VPR.
For example, in 2018, at least 60% of schools in each constituent entity of the Russian Federation must participate in the All-Russian test in the Russian language for grades 2 and 5.
Officials of regions and municipalities are instructed to include in this number 10% of urban and the same number of rural educational organizations with the highest and lowest results of the state final certification in grades 9 and 11.
Perhaps parents will ask: who needs the GIA results if second-graders write the VPR?
Simply based on the results of the OGE and the Unified State Exam, regional authorities determine the level of the school and its place in the regional or local ranking. If your school is ranked among the very best or, conversely, is chronically lagging behind, it may end up on the list of VPR participants in some subjects without even wanting it.
Unfortunately, last year, parents, teachers and directors complained that they were deciding for them (and, most importantly, at the last moment) whether their school would take part in the All-Russian testing work in a particular subject.
WHO COMPLETES VLOOKUP TASKS AND HOW?
This question worries both teachers and parents. Test items that are uniform for schools are compiled at the Federal Institute of Pedagogical Measurements (FIPI) taking into account the new state standards (FSES).
It is very difficult to obtain official permission to interview the writers of GIA or VPR assignments, even if you are well acquainted with these scientists.
The ideologists of the new type of monitoring say that the benchmark for them was the tasks of the comparative international study PISA, in which schoolchildren from Russia failed at least twice.
PISA questions are focused on practical use school knowledge in real situations. Russian specialists who develop tasks for VPR also strive for this international “bar.”
However, the versions of the All-Russian test works for high school also include traditional tasks that experienced teachers have already encountered in the demo versions of the OGE and the Unified State Exam.
“In the demo versions of the VPR, I came across a lot of tasks from the OGE for the 9th grade,” says Ksenia Gennadievna Pudovkina, a teacher of geography and biology at school No. 2 in the city of Sim, Ashinsky district, Chelyabinsk region. “VPR in my subject meet federal standards, so many tasks test not knowledge, but the ability to work with information.”
“If a subject was taught in the system from the 5th to the 11th grades, the student is able to write a VPR on it,” many teachers believe. “The tasks of the All-Russian test work are of a basic level, no subtleties are used in them.”
“- My children and I solved the demo version of VPR - and no one in the class scored a bad grade. Do the same!”, others advise.
WHICH SUBJECTS OF VPR ARE CONSIDERED THE MOST DIFFICULT: PAY ATTENTION!
Russian language:
Last year, Russian language teachers who were preparing children for the federal test found higher-level questions in the assignments for grade 5 - on topics from grades 6 and 7 that the students had not yet taken.
If you are not confident in the children’s knowledge, it is better to open the demo version of VPR on the FIPI website and get acquainted with the tasks. The Russian language is a subject that never hurts to study.
Biology:
Some teachers, during the All-Russian test in biology for grade 5, found in the VPR several tasks on topics that were covered only in textbooks for grades 6 and even 7.
“After this test in biology, the children were very worried,” said one of the mothers. “Some of my daughter’s classmates were one point short of a school C, and some were two points short of a B.” This is a lot of stress for them. And in fact, almost all the VPR tasks that were given to our children were NOT according to the 5th grade curriculum.”
“Currently there is no unified biology program for grade 5,” Rosobrnadzor responded to a request from teachers of this subject. “In general educational organizations of the Russian Federation, ... work programs of 12 different teams of authors can be used.”
However, if your school has already taken the VPR in biology, it means that you are familiar with the problem and have drawn conclusions.
Story:
The second difficult subject of the All-Russian test work was history.
“- The results of the VPR in history showed that schoolchildren in grades 5 and 11 do not know enough about the history of their native land and famous historical figures, and do not know how to establish cause-and-effect relationships between historical events and analyze different types sources of historical information,” said Sergei Kravtsov, head of Rosobrnadzor.
On the history course for grade 5, there were indeed questions about the history of our native land. One teacher from a small town, for example, analyzed training tasks VPR and figured out that the children would be asked a question about their famous fellow countrymen. His class learned the answer in advance (the famous fellow countryman had only one). And at the VPR, the class was asked to name a historical event related to their small homeland. There is no need to explain what the fifth graders wrote instead. The confusion was complete, and the school discussed for a long time whether it was possible to reformulate the VPR question so as not to give the whole class low scores.
Geography:
This year, some students may have difficulties with the geography test: the school must decide for itself whether it will be taken in 10th or 11th grade.
By the way, she can solve it at the last moment (see above).
So that children don’t get nervous, here is a free VPR geography simulator that opens conveniently and gives hints:
HOW ARE THE GRADES ASSIGNED FOR VPR?
“VPR is not only uniform measures and the same tasks that children do all over the country, it is also the same assessment criteria,” emphasizes Sergei Stanchenko, head of the monitoring research project NIKO (National Research on the Quality of Education), which became the predecessors of VPR.
The federal coordinator of the VPR is Rosobrnadzor (Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science). It should not be confused with FIPI (Federal Institute of Pedagogical Measurements), which compiles assignments for VPR.
Rosobrnadzor administers the VPR: it appoints regional coordinators of the All-Russian verification work. They become the Departments and Ministries of Education of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, which form a list of municipal coordinators of the VPR in their constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
Grades for educational tasks are assigned to each student according to a special scale developed by Rosobrnadzor of the Russian Federation.
Then the obtained VPR points are converted into school grades.
If the subject is optional (the school itself chose it in order to test the students’ knowledge), the transfer to grades is carried out at the discretion of the teachers themselves.
Please note: if in your region it has been decided to take into account grades for CDF in the final certification, then they should be taken into account for the entire class, and not for individual students.
It can’t be that someone’s grade for CDF will be credited and put in the journal, but not the other children in the class.
If a CD subject is considered compulsory, it is also assessed by school teachers. But in this case, they must assign points strictly according to the criteria developed by Rosobrnadzor.
These results are entered into electronic form and no later than two days later uploaded via Personal Area schools on the portal of the All-Russian testing works.
WHAT CAN YOU GET A D IN VPR?
Let's see what you can get a bad mark for on the All-Russian test in mathematics in the 4th grade.
If a student scores from 0 to 5 points for his work, his knowledge is considered unsatisfactory. Scored 6-9 points - you get a C, 10-12 - a B, 13-18 points - rejoice, parents and teachers, you have an excellent student!
Russian language in 4th grade is assessed differently. Anyone who scores less than 13 points gets a two, 14-23 points gets a three, 24-32 points gets a four, 33-38 points gets a five.
This may surprise and disappoint many parents who were convinced: if the test is federal, then the VPR assignments should be checked in Moscow.
No, the VPR test takes place on site, at school, immediately after students hand in their work. This is not done by the computer, but by the teachers themselves.
“We recommend that our colleagues collectively check several VPR papers,” Sergei Stanchenko explains the verification algorithm, “see what mistakes the students made in them, and then agree among themselves how to evaluate the results in accordance with federal criteria.”
Teachers can familiarize themselves with the regulations for conducting VPR and samples of test work on the official website http://vpr.statgrad.org/
IT'S NORMAL TO WORRY
All-Russian test papers are written on the same day for the entire country. Moreover: even at the same time.
For VPR in the Russian language in grades 2 and 5, it is recommended, for example, to leave lessons 2-3 in the schedule.
All this imposes a certain responsibility on the school administration.
And we need to prepare for the fact that the whole school will be nervous: it’s normal for the whole country to do the same work at the same time.
Some explain to children this way:
“When we wrote the RONO test as children, we were also worried. But for the test we were given a mark in the class register, and the school will simply take your grades into account.”
Some teenagers object:
“Then why try if they don’t put marks on the VPR”?
The answer to this is simple: the VPR scores will be announced in front of the whole class. And this means that those who took the federal test lightly will not have the most pleasant moments.
Plus, based on the results of the VPR, all unsuccessful students may be assigned additional classes.
Do you need this? Same thing.
HOW TO WRITE A VLOOKUP EXCELLENT?
Education leaders claim that it is easy to complete all VPR tasks. You just need to stay in class and don’t skip school.
Teachers who have studied demo versions of VPR in their subject do not always agree with this. They say that only a few students will be able to achieve high scores on federal tests without preparation.
This fact is indirectly recognized by Rosobrnadzor itself, when NOT recommended for teachers (quote):
- specially prepare the class for the implementation of VPR buildings,
- do this during the holidays or after school,
- put grades for the federal test in the journal,
- avoid elements of training for VPR tasks.
How long does it take to prepare for the VPR?
It all depends on the textbook in which the subject is taught, on the class and on the teacher.
“- With children, of course, you will have to repeat everything before the VPR. It took me and my motivated students about three lessons,” says Evgenia Vladimirovna Zhinkina, a physics teacher at school No. 32 with in-depth study in English Ozersk, Chelyabinsk region.
VLOOKUP SCHEDULE
VPR-2018 schedule for 4th grade
- VPR in the Russian language - 04/17/2018 (dictation) and 04/19/2018 (test part);
- In mathematics - 04/24/2018;
- In the subject “The World around us” - 04/26/2018.
VPR-2018 schedule for grade 5:
- Russian language - 04/17/2018;
- mathematics - 04/19/2018;
- history - 04/24/2018;
- biology - 04/26/2018.
6th grade students will have to write a VPR in testing mode:
- in mathematics - 04/18/2018;
- in biology - 04/20/2018;
- in Russian - 04/25/2018;
- in geography - 04/27/2018;
- in social studies - 05/11/2018;
- in history - 05.15.2018.
The study period for graduates in the 11th grade was postponed to March and April, so as not to increase the stress that arises when preparing for the Unified State Exam.
In 2018, the latest CD in biology for grade 11 will be written on April 12, and the CD in history was postponed to March 21.
11th grade schoolchildren will write VPR using:
- foreign languages - 20.03.2018;
- in history - 03/21/2018;
- in geography - 04/03/2018;
- in chemistry - 04/05/2018;
- in physics - 04/10/2018;
- in biology - 04/12/2018.
VPR IN PRIMARY SCHOOL
In 2nd grades they will take the Russian language, in 4th grades they will take the VPR in the Russian language (dictation and tests), mathematics and the subject “The World around us”. Time to solve problems: 45 minutes
VPR IN BASIC SCHOOL
In the 5th grade, students are expected to study in mathematics, biology, history and the Russian language (twice - in October and April). Since 2018, a CD in history has been added to the mandatory CD in the Russian language. Fifth graders complete assignments for 60 minutes
In the 6th grade, students will have to take the test in the testing mode in the Russian language, mathematics, history, social studies, biology and geography. For 2018, school participation in the VPR for 6th grades is not mandatory. An educational organization can choose the subject in which it would like to conduct a control cross-section of knowledge.
VPR FOR HIGH SCHOOL
In the 10th grade, students will take the VPR in chemistry and biology. In 11th grade - biology, foreign languages, history, chemistry, geography and physics. VPR is chosen by those graduates who do not pass the specialized Unified State Examination in this subject. Schools can choose to conduct a course in geography in the 10th or 11th grade. The time for solving problems with VPR for eleventh graders is 90 minutes.
Information and technological support for the VPR is provided on the website
REGULATIONS
organization and implementation in 4 classes
BOU "Tara Gymnasium No. 1"
All-Russian testing works
- General provisions
- The subject of these regulations is the organization and conduct of All-Russian testing works (hereinafter referred to as VPR) in 4 grades of the Tara Gymnasium No. 1.
- The main objectives of organizing and conducting VPR are:
- assessment of the level of general educational training of 4th grade students in accordance with the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard of NEO;
- diagnostics of achievements of subject and meta-subject results;
- carrying out diagnostics of the level of formation of universal educational actions and mastery of interdisciplinary concepts;
- improving methods of teaching the Russian language, mathematics and the surrounding world in primary school.
- Conducting educational training in 4 grades is carried out by an educational organization.
- The VPR is carried out within the time frame approved by the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science of the Russian Federation.
- The conduct of educational activities in an educational organization is regulated by the order of the director.
- Participation of 4th grade students in VPR is mandatory.
- Students with disabilities are exempt from participation in the educational program;
- VPR in the classroom is conducted by the teacher teaching in this class, in the presence of an assistant.
- VLOOKUP time is 45 minutes.
- When performing VLOOKUP, the use of dictionaries and reference materials is not permitted. You can use a draft.
- The work is checked by the teacher working in this class.
- The results of the VPR can only be used to diagnose the level of training of students and improve the educational process.
- Based on the results of the VPR, only positive marks are entered into the journal or at the request of the students.
- The results of the VPR do not affect the final result in subjects.
- The organization and conduct of educational training in an educational organization (hereinafter referred to as OO) is regulated by:
- Article 28 “Competence, rights, duties and responsibilities of an educational organization” of the Law of the Russian Federation of December 29, 2012 No. 273-FZ “On Education in the Russian Federation”
- Order of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation of November 26, 2015 No. 1381 “On monitoring the quality of education”
- Regulatory legal acts of the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science of the Russian Federation.
- Subjects of the VPR organization
- The subjects of the VPR organization are:
- educational organization;
- teaching staff teaching 4th grade students;
- parents (legal representatives).
- Functions of the subjects of the VPR organization
- Educational organization:
- ensures the conduct of educational training in an educational organization in the subjects “Russian Language”, “Mathematics”, “The World around us” within the time frame approved by the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science of the Russian Federation;
- issues local legal acts on the organization and conduct of educational training in 4 grades;
- approves the schedule of preparations for carrying out the VPR;
- registers on the VPR support portal (vpr.statgrad.org) and gains access to his personal account.
- creates the necessary conditions for organizing and conducting educational training: allocates the required number of classrooms (based on seats - 2 students per desk), provides the required number of assistants in the classroom (no more than two people);
- holds school-wide parent meetings for the purpose of familiarization and clarification, relieving unnecessary tension among the parent community on the issue of organizing and conducting educational training for 4th grade students;
- informs parents (legal representatives) about the procedure and conditions for conducting educational training through the website of the educational organization;
- carries out explanatory work with 4th grade teachers participating in the educational program to ensure the objectivity of the results;
- promptly receives through your personal account an archive with mock-ups of individual kits;
- ensures the safety of work, excluding the possibility of making changes;
- fills out and sends an electronic results collection form to the VPR system;
- informs teachers about the results of class participation in the VPR.
- Teaching staff teaching 4th grade students:
- introduce 4th grade studentswith the timing and procedure for writing a VPR;
- organize explanatory work with parents (legal representatives) of 4th grade students (including in terms of: the obligation to participate in writing the VPR; the procedure for writing the VPR; bringing the format of test papers closer to traditional tests without a test part; compliance of the content of the texts of the VPR with the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard, taking into account approximate educational programs etc.);
- carry out educational work within the time limits approved by the order of the director of the educational organization;
- check the work in their class according to the assessment criteria within no more than two working days from the end of the GCSE in the relevant subject;
- transfer the results of work evaluation to the coordinator for entering them into electronic form;
- information about the conduct of the VPR is entered into the class register;
- inform students and parents (legal representatives) about the results of participation in the VPR.
- Parents (legal representatives):
- get acquainted with the deadlinesand the procedure for writing a VPR;
- ensure the attendance of children on the days when the CD is written;
- get acquainted with the results of writing their child’s VPR.
- The sequence of actions of an educational organization when carrying out educational activities
- The Deputy Director for HR (hereinafter referred to as the coordinator), who organizes the implementation of the HR in an educational organization, registers on the HR support portal (vpr.statgrad.org) and gets access to his personal account.
- In the personal account, the coordinator gets access to an encrypted archive, which contains: an electronic layout of individual kits, including CMM options with individual marks (codes), accompanying files (for example, an audio recording of the text for a dictation), as well as instructions for carrying out the work, a form of the protocol work and electronic form for collecting results.
- On the day of work in set time(depending on the number of students) before the start of work, the coordinator receives a password in his personal account or through the municipal coordinator to decrypt the archive with mock-ups of individual sets.
- The coordinator independently prints out individual kits according to the number of 4th grade students and provides them to the teacher before the start of the educational program.
- Students complete the buildings and write down answers on sheets with tasks, into which they enter an individual code received at the beginning of the work (arbitrarily from those available).
- The assistant in the classroom records in the protocol the correspondence between the codes of individual sets and the student’s full name, which he transfers to the coordinator for safekeeping.
- After completing the work, the teacher collects all the kits and hands them over to the coordinator.
- The coordinator transfers students' short answers into electronic form.
- The teacher working in the classroom checks the detailed answers. The test is carried out in accordance with the criteria for assessing the answers received from the coordinator. The inspection of work must be completed within the time limits specified in the inspection requirements.
- The coordinator enters grades for detailed answers in electronic form through his personal account on the VPR portal. The coordinator fills out the electronic form for collecting results within no more than two working days: for each participant, he enters into the form his code, the number of the work option and points for the tasks. Only student codes are transmitted electronically; full names are not indicated. The correspondence of the full name and code remains in the educational organization in the form of a paper protocol. After filling out the forms, the organizer uploads the results collection form to the VPR system.
- Within two days, through a personal account on the VPR portal, the coordinator receives access to summary statistics for the educational organization based on the results of the work. Using a paper protocol, it establishes a correspondence between the names of the participants and their results, and communicates the results of the VPR to teachers.
