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Publications
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Book
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Article
Adolescent agency and behavioral characteristics: conformity, problematic behavior, need for cognition
The concept of human agency has attracted considerable interest in academic and expert discussions concerning various life domains and age groups, including adolescents. However, the field lacks a unified approach to measuring agency for adolescents and understanding its relationship with their behavioral characteristics and attitudes. This study addresses these gaps by introducing an Adolescent Agency Index and examining its associations with behavioral characteristics such as сonformity, problematic behavior, and the need for cognition. The data was collected from students in grades 4 to 8 (N = 4,603; Mage = 12.6, SD = 1.7; 50.3% female). The analyses indicated a negative relationship between agency and conformity and a positive relationship between agency and problematic
behavior; moreover, a stronger positive relationship was found with the need for cognition. At the same time, the nature of the relationship between agency and these characteristics is complex, non-linear. These findings provide valuable insights for educational policymakers, researchers, and families.Frontiers in Psychology. 2025. No. 16. P. 1-10.
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Book chapter
Innovative ICT-Supported Teaching and the School’s Digital Renewal Stages
Evolving digital technologies are infiltrating schools nowadays. This process is taking place by stages that are viewed as the schools’ digital renewal process (SDRP), the complex and multidimensional one. It includes changes in the educational environment (physical and virtual), the educational process, and the way how school operates. The use of innovative ICT-supported teaching (IITST) can be considered as one of the key indicators of a school’ digital renewal process for measurement of its progress. The aim of the study is to evaluate the status of innovative IITST within the framework of SDRP. During the monitoring of the digital transformation of Russian general education in 2021 data on IITST ware collected. More than 500 schools from all regions of Russia participated in the study. The data collected show that schools in different regions of the country are unevenly progressing along the path of digital renewal. The report presents results obtained during the monitoring and discusses the reasons for the uneven movement of schools along the path of digital renewal in Russia.
In bk.: Structural and Technological Transformation of Education in the Post-Pandemic Period. Problems and Prospects. Springer, 2025. Ch. 1. P. 3-9.
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Working paper
Explicit continuum scale format reduces the ceiling effect in self-report questionnaires comparing to Likert response format
This study presents a methodology for developing a new questionnaire format called explicit continuum scenario scales, in the example of a client focus questionnaire. Elements of the Rasch Guttman scenario scale methodology were used in its development. In three consequent studies, different aspects of the scale functioning were investigated. In Study 1, on the sample of 100 respondents, it was shown that the explicit continuum scale produces reliable results and helps avoid the ceiling effect shown in the Likert response format version of the client focus questionnaire. In Study 2, the scale was administered in a competition environment, in a sample of 735 people. Despite the positive shift of scores, the instrument shows excellent psychometric characteristics and still resists the ceiling effect. In Study 3, new items were included, and the scale was presented in an interactive format. In the sample of 65,000 university students, it demonstrated the robustness of its psychometrics characteristics including dimensionality. The results of the three studies show that the explicit continuum format has the advantage of the stable dimensionality similar to the expanded format and is promising for measurement in social sciences.Basic research program. WP BRP. National Research University Higher School of Economics, 2024
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