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Boris Elkonin

Psychologist, Doctor of Science, Professor of Lomonosov Moscow State University, head of the laboratory of theoretical and experimental problems of psychology at Institute of Psychology of Russian Academy of Education, president of the international Association of Development Education, leading expert of the Institute of education at Higher School of Economics

Petr Nezhnov

PhD, leading researcher of Laboratory of psychological anthropology of the Institute of psychological and pedagogical problems of childhood of Russian Academy of Education, head of the laboratory of the Institute of primary education development at Russian Academy of Education

Sergey Gorbov

Senior researcher of Institute of psychology at Russian Academy of Education, author of studying course of Math for primary school and for 5-6 grades, algebra for 7-9 grades under the system of Developing education, member of the Federal Expert Council of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (1961-1999)

Alexey Vorontsov

PhD, assistant professor of magistracy at Moscow psychological and pedagogical university, expert a National training fund, general director of the Open institute “Developing education”

Elena Kardanova

PhD, assistant professor at the Department of educational programs, director of Center for educational quality assessment at the Institute of education of Higher School of Economics, lecturer of the studying courses “Measurement in psychology and education” and “Psyhometric theories and analysis of test items”

SAM – is a result of the creative efforts of a large number of professionals. Each of them invaluable contributed to the project.

We are particularly grateful to A.Volkov, V. Bolotov, Is. Froumin who initiated the search for new approaches to assessing the quality of school education, took part in the theoretical understanding of the problem, contributed to the creation of conditions for development and provision counseling and human support to the development team. The key contribution to the project from B. Hasan, who took on risky responsibility for organizing and conducting the initial level of development which was carried out by Institute of developmental psychology and pedagogy in Krasnoyarsk, should be also noted.

The biggest group of research team consists of teachers and psychologists who put their creativity to the conceptualization, design and implementation of the model SAM at different levels of development and for different subjects. We are grateful to our colleagues A. Aronov, O. Balandin, B. Vorontsov, E. Vysotskaya, A. Gilyano, S. Gorbov, A. Dorohova, V. Zaytseva, V. Zaslavskiy, O. Znamenskaya, I. Kim, C. Klevtsova, G. Kudina, V.Lvovskiy, P.Nezhnov (scientific supervisor), Z. Novlyanskaya, O. Obuhova, O. Ostroverh, L.Ryabinina, O.Sviridova, A. Skripka, O.Sokolova, T. Timkova, G. Zuckerman, T. Chaban, E. Chudinova, B.Elkonin, T. Yustus.

We would also like to note the great work of statisticians and psychometricians under the supervision of E.Kardanova. V. Ovchinnikov and V. Karpinskiy provided debugging psychometric characteristics of test materials, and assisted in the development of methods of estimation of test participants. Also we would like to thank students of MA program of Higher School of Economics “Measurement in Psychology and Education” who were involved in processing of approbations database.

At all levels of the project, we received good support from I. Efremova, Y. Efremova, Y. Koreshnikova, E. Shirshikova who helped us to solve urgent organizational problems.

Significant assistance and support of our work was provided by G. Kovaleva whose friendly and constructive criticism, as well as direct assistance in testing materials helped to formulate the basic provisions of the approach and to determine the potential of our tools. We express our gratitude to the experts – M. Zelman and M. Vasileva, as well as K. Polivanova and A. Mayorov – for the examination of SAM, valuable comments and recommendations for improvement.

Finally, it is impossible to overestimate the multilateral support that was provided to the project by The Moscow office of the World Bank and the Center for International Cooperation in Education Development (CICED).