Problem of socio-professional adaptation of young assistant professors of high school in contemporary Russia

This article pays attention to the problem of socio-professional adaptation of young assistant professors in the universities. Author considers the notion “adaptation”, “socio-professional adaptation.” Much space is devoted to considering problems dealing with adaptation of young teaches (low professional status of teaches, low level of salary and so on.)В статье рассматривается понятие «социально-профессиональная адаптация», обосновывается необходимость ее дальнейшего изучения в социологии. Автор анализирует ряд проблем, связанных с плохой адаптацией молодых преподавателей в вузах современной России (низкий профессиональный статус преподавателя, отсутствие прироста молодых педагогов в вузы и пр.)

Toward the Standardization of the BVL_RU: An Instrument for Speech and Language Assessment of Russian-speaking Children

The Battery for the assessment of speech and language development in children from 4 to 12 years (BVL_4-12; [1]) was originally developed for Italian-speaking children and currently is under adaptation into several European languages including Russian. The BVL_4-12 consists of three parts and includes tasks assessing oral production, comprehension and repetition skills in children. This article describes the process of adaptation of the BVL_4-12 into Russia and focuses on the instructions’ translation and standardization. It presents the results of the tasks instructions’ clarity evaluation by an expert panel including Russian-speaking specialists constantly working with children of a target age in Russia and Italy (N = 7) and a cohort of children from 4.06 to10.10 including monolinguals with typical language development, children previously diagnosed with primary language impairment (PLI) and heritage Russian speakers (N = 84). Overall, 10 task instructions were judged as absolutely clear and 5 task instructions were somewhat unclear to some of the participants. Further analysis ofthe age of the participants who rated the instructions as ‘unclear’ was performed. Some of the youngest participants, whose age did not exceed 6.10, found that the instructions for the following tasks were not clear: phonological fluency; sentence completion; grammatical judgments; idiom comprehension, and comprehension of linguistic prosody. However, the minimum inter-rater agreement among the sample was reached. The potential explanation of the results of the study is proposed in the Discussion section. Keywords: language assessment, Russian, children, SLI, task instruction

An Application Of Machine Learning Methods To The Derivation Of Exposure-Response Curves For Respiratory Outcomes

Analyses of epidemiological studies of the association between short-term changes in air pollution and health outcomes have not sufficiently discussed the degree to which the statistical models chosen for these analyses reflect what is actually known about the true data-generating distribution. We present a method to estimate population-level ambient air pollution (NO2) exposure-health (wheeze in children with asthma) response functions that is not dependent on assumptions about the data-generating function that underlies the observed data and which focuses on a specific scientific parameter of interest (the marginal adjusted association of exposure on probability of wheeze, over a grid of possible exposure values). We show that this approach provides a more nuanced summary of the data than more typical statistical methods used in air pollution epidemiology and epidemiological studies in general

Increasing the self-assessment level of adolescent children through interactive work forms

In this article, the author conducts a comprehensive theoretical analysis of the possibilities of using interactive (dialogue) work forms in the context of increasing the self-esteem level of adolescent children. Mainly, the current activity areas of a teacher-psychologist with younger and older adolescents are analysed. The main advantages of the subject-subject work form are formed, as well as the potential opportunities for introducing modern information technologies into the work system on the self-esteem level of adolescents are given. Thus, the theoretical analysis results carried out allow us to note that interactive work forms provide colossal variant directions for the psychological and pedagogical diagnostic implementation and directly corrective activity aspects. Among other things, the key feature of their application is the ability to adapt the dialogue to the personal characteristics of each teenager, which increases the successful communication likelihood and further psychological and pedagogical support organisation

Youth Parliamentarism as a Form of Political Activity of Young People

В статье приводится анализ деятельности Молодежного парламента при Законодательном собрании Иркутской области. Автор рассматривает систему молодежного парламентаризма как форму политической активности молодежи. Сегодня молодежный парламентаризм является хоть и немногочисленным, но основополагающим компонентом политической активности молодежи.The article analyzes the activities of the Youth Parliament under the Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk Region. The author considers the system of youth parliamentarism as a form of political activity of young people. Today, youth parliamentarism is, although not numerous, a fundamental component of the political activity of young people

Current state and tendencies of development of mass electronic educational resources

The report considers the current trends of mass electronic educational resources and technologies. Analysis of existing foreign electronic educational resources, as well as the Russian experience of development in this sphere. Makes a number of conclusions about the prospects of introduction of mass electronic educational technologies on the Russian market.В докладе рассмотрены современные тенденции развития массовых электронных образовательных ресурсов и технологий. Проводится анализ существующих зарубежных электронных образовательных ресурсов, а также российского опыта развития в данной сфере. Делается ряд выводов о перспективности внедрения массовых электронных образовательных технологий на российском рынке

Comprehension of idiomatic expressions by Russian speaking typically developing children

© Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2017. Background. The ability to understand idiomatic expressions begins to develop at an early age. However, such skill is not achieved within the same age and at the same pace in children speaking different languages. Objective. This study assesses comprehension of idiomatic expressions by Russian- speaking monolingual children aged 4 to 12 and monitoring the age dynamics of figurative language understanding. Design. 80 children were split in 4 age groups balanced for gender and level of formal education. The participants were asked to identify the correct non-literal meaning of 10 idioms. For each idiomatic expression, children heard three potential interpretations (one correct, and two incorrect ones of which one was literal while the other was overtly wrong). Results. Age-related differences were analysed by performing a series of univariate ANOVAs. These analyses showed that already at preschool age children begin to understand some kinds of idiomatic expressions and that such ability slowly develops throughout childhood. Interestingly, until the age of 6 children predominantly interpreted idioms literally. By the age of 7 their ability to correctly understand the non-literal meanings of idiomatic expressions enhanced significantly until it reached a plateau around the age of 12. Conclusion. The results of the study are in line with those found for children speaking other languages. The findings are interpreted in light of recent theories of language and cognitive development. Potential limitations of the study are also discussed

Ways to increase patient compliance in the drugs preferential provision

Compliance of patients in the drugs preferential provision is considered as the most important component of effectiveness and safety pharmacotherapy.Aim. Based on the study of patient compliance in the drugs preferential provision program to develop recommendations and proposals to improve adherence to treatment.Materials and methods. A sociological survey was conducted at 115 patients suffering from chronic diseases in four polyclinics in Vladivostok in 2019. All patients were treated under the «Program of Providing Certain Categories of Citizens with Necessary Drugs». The study used descriptive statistics methods using the Microsoft Office program.Results. The highest level of adherence was noted in the indicators «compliance with the recommendations of the attending physician for taking medicines» — 78.3 % and «absence of a pass in taking medicines» — 76.5 %. The greatest compliance to drugs treatment (< 50 %) on the majority of indicators of questioning is registered at patients with diagnoses: «diabetes mellitus», «bronchial asthma» and «malignant neoplasms», and also at co-morbid patients. The lowest adherence to pharmacotherapy (> 50 %) was in groups of patients with hypertension and chronic renal failure. Compliance in the field of non-drugs treatment is not sufficient.Conclusion. The sociological survey showed that adherence to medication and non-medication treatment is insufficient. To improve the compliance it is recommended the introduction of programs of patient education with use of modern interactive educational technologies