Institute of Education

Publications

• Book

  Abashkin V., Abdrakhmanova G., Demidkina O. V. et al.

  Digital Economy: 2026 : Pocket Data Book

  This pocket data book contains the main indicators reflecting the relevance of digital technologies for enterprises and individuals, the activity of ICT sector enterprises, the infrastructure and personnel of the digital economy.

  The data book includes information of the Russian Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, European Statistical Office (Eurostat), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), International Telecommunication Union (ITU), UNESCO, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, and results of methodological and analytical studies of the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge.

  In some cases, the presented data specify those published earlier.

  M.: HSE ISSEK, 2026.

• Article

  Pavlenko E., Tolstykh D.

  Vocational Pathways to Viable Futures: Narrative Construction of Agentic Selves in a Russian Arctic Monotown

  This article examines how youth in a Russian Arctic monotown construct agency through vocational education and training (VET) amid extreme structural constraints. Drawing on cultural sociology, it reconceptualises agency as a narrative construct, mobilising shared repertoires to render scripted pathways viable and morally coherent. Based on 65 interviews with 16–20-year-old students across five VET schools, findings reveal differentiated trajectories: technical VET enables predictable industrial staying with moralised labour; medical VET offers low-risk entry to long-term care careers; teacher-training VET provides a 'humanities island' for softened mobility; and arts VET institutionalises counter-normative creative paths. Challenging binary views of agency, the study positions VET systems as infrastructures translating uncertainty into narratively coherent futures, contributing to youth transitions and sociology of education by highlighting cultural work in peripheral contexts.

  British Journal of Sociology of Education. 2026.

• Book chapter

  Dvoretskaya I., Alexey Semenov, Uvarov A.

  Exploring Patterns of Information Literacy Development in Schools: Application of Multilevel Latent Class Analysis to School Students Survey Data

  While the literature on digital transformation in education has searched for evidence based practices to improve ICT uptake in school settings, we know little about how schools differ in their approaches. This study aims to overcome the absence of standardized tools that could help to assess the stages and progress of ICT integration in educational settings. By using the example of information literacy development tasks assignment in classroom, we applied a latent class analysis to the survey data obtained from the monitoring the digital transformation of schools in the 2020–21 academic year. Based on the survey data from monitoring the digital transformation of schools, four types of students’ patterns were identified, depending on the information skills tasks assigned to them by their teachers at school. Based on the distribution of students’ patterns of working with information, three typical patterns of schools were identified with the use of multilevel latent class analysis. This study provides evidence for how the development of information literacy differs across schools contexts. As with advent of digital technologies education becomes data intensive domain, new approaches to the big data analysis are encouraged and it can help educators and education policy makers to improve decision-making.

  In bk.: 26th International Conference, DAMDID/RCDL 2024, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, October 23–25, 2024, Revised Selected Papers. Data Analytics and Management in Data Intensive Domains. (CCIS, volume 2641). Springer, 2026. P. 253-266.

• 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