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Piattoeva, Nelli; Smirnova, Valeriia; Santos, Íris – European Educational Research Journal, 2023
This article analyses discussions in the Russian media of the proposal to introduce the Unified State Exam (USE) in English as a mandatory test in the last year of (high) school education 2010s. The decision not to implement the mandatory USE in English was taken in August 2020. In the aftermath of the decision, we investigate the decade-long…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Language Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Bodovski, Katerina; Chykina, Volha; Khavenson, Tatiana – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2019
Using newly available data from the Trajectories in Education and Careers Study, the first longitudinal study on a representative sample of high school students in Russia, we examined the importance of investments in human and cultural capital on students' mathematics and reading standardized examinations, as well as on the likelihood of…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Russian, Standardized Tests, Scores
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Elgort, Irina – Language Testing, 2013
This study examines the development and evaluation of a bilingual Vocabulary Size Test (VST, Nation, 2006). A bilingual (English-Russian) test was developed and administered to 121 intermediate proficiency EFL learners (native speakers of Russian), alongside the original monolingual (English-only) version of the test. A comparison of the bilingual…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Vocabulary, Language Tests, English