ASSESSMENT OF THE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT COMFORT IN GENERAL EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: THE REGION’S EXPERIENCE
The formation of comfortable educational environment is among the priorities of the state educational policy to ensure the high quality of education, its accessibility, openness and attractiveness to students, their parents, preservation of health and achievement of social well-being of all participants in educational relations. In the article the authors present more than ten-year long experience of the region in conducting evaluation procedures aimed at studying the comfort of the educational environment on the basis of monitoring and integrated approaches. The evaluation is carried out on the basis of statistical information, results of the opinion survey “Satisfaction with the General Education Quality” and an independent assessment of the quality of educational activities that are comparable and complementary. Its results are widely used in Kemerovo Region to stimulate competition in education, to identify and disseminate the most efficient practices in ensuring the comfort of the educational environment in general education institutions, and to make management decisions aimed at developing the regional education system.