The analysis of the demand for scientific and methodological support for the organization of students’ project and research activities

The paper presents the results of a large-scale study of the current state of the problem of students’ project and research activities organization in Russian schools and institutions of additional education for children. About twenty thousand teachers and administrative and managerial workers from 67 regions of Russia took part in this study. It was carried out on the basis of the Federal Center for Scientific and Methodological Support of Teaching Staff at Herzen State Pedagogical University. The content of the paper examines the demand for different types of scientific and methodological support of subject teachers in the implementation of students’ project research activities, the degree of modern teachers’ awareness and mastery of project learning technologies, including evaluation of the quality of projects and research. The paper deals with the problems related to the organization of project and research work in classes with in-depth study of subjects as well as the organization of independent activity of students at all stages of projects and research. Special attention is paid to the analysis of problems and difficulties arising during the implementation of educational projects and research, which are differentiated, based on the content, into 3 groups (methodological, organizational-methodical and methodical, resource-informational nature). In this regard, possible ways of solving them are proposed at the level of schools and centers of scientific and methodological support of teaching staff.