Institute of Education

Research & Expertise to Make a Difference in Education & Beyond

Established in 2012, the Institute of Education (IOE) is one of the key R&D units at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, the leader of the QS Rankins in Education Russia.

At IOE, we research, train, and network to craft a better world through better education. Our supreme commitment is to contribute to robust, evidence-centric policy and practice so everyone benefits from positive change in education and development.

We boast world-class expertise brought by 250+ research and teaching faculty, including academics of international renown, who have diverse backgrounds and are into various scholarly strands.

Our R&D portfolio comprises a vast range of projects—including high-caliber partnerships with QS top-rank institutions and global policy powerhouses—that cut across educational realms.

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News

The International Education Observatory initiative, launched by HSE University to focus on expert evaluation, analytics, and joint scientific research, has successfully completed the formation of a research network across all BRICS nations. South Africa was the final link, with the University of Pretoria and the University of the Witwatersrand joining experts from Russia, China, India, and Brazil. 
March 04
In a fiercely polarized, starkly unequal world, more young people have found themselves struggling as they navigate a path into an adult life of meaning and impact. Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of prefiguration and resilience, a study by Anastasiia Andreeva, Elena Omelchenko, and Pavel Sorokin highlights the diverse ways in which young people in Russia respond to the uncertainties shaping their lives.
March 03
Consumers of content about serial killers watch and read it to experience intense emotions that are often lacking in everyday life and to understand the reasons that drive people to commit crimes. However, such content does not contribute to increased aggression. These conclusions were drawn by sociologists from HSE University. The results of their study have been published in Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal.
February 14

Publications

  • Book

    Structural and Technological Transformation of Education in the Post-Pandemic Period. Problems and Prospects

    Springer, 2025.

  • Article

    Goshin M. E., Grigoryev D., Sorokin P. S.

    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.

  • Book chapter

    Dvoretskaya I., Uvarov A.

    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.

  • Working paper

    Antipkina I., Ivanov A., Guzhelya D.

    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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Contacts

Email us: ioe_hse@hse.ru
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