The authors of the article have conducted a sociological study of the problem of confidence in schoolteachers in the Moscow region in autumn of 2019. They have interviewed teachers, students and their parents in the suburbs of Ramenskoye and the city of Orekhovo-Zuevo (these cities are located at different distances from Moscow), which has made it possible to see more clearly the socio-cultural specificity of the studied problem. In the article, the authors pay particular attention to the factors that affect mutual understanding between all the actors of the learning process. The authors conclude that the problem of confidence in schoolteachers is becoming more urgent, and the need for its systematic monitoring in schools appears. Considering the spread of distance learning, the authors of the article suggest that schoolteachers will face additional difficulties in building trusting relationships with students and their parents. The experience of the study, presented in the article, will be useful for finding solutions to the problem of confidence between all the actors of the learning process in changing conditions.

The article based on the research which aim is to clear, how common teaching practices in Russian schools affecting the decline in the results of students when performing tasks of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The authors of the article try to understand why teachers so often prefer quite old training technologies. In the course of study these problems, members of research team conducted interviews and discussions with school teachers from the Moscow region who were trained in advanced training courses at the Academy of Public Administration. Intensive interaction with teachers helped the authors to draw a conclusion that the avoiding more effective contemporary training technologies is due to certain conditions in which the teacher works. Another conclusion made in the article: teachers fail in teaching students not because they do not have enough knowledge of modern technologies and techniques or because they underestimate the importance of developing critical thinking, anthropological imagination, knowledge of meta-subject connections, the skills to understand texts and work with heterogeneous information, but because they are not ready to accept the changing social role of the school.

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The article substantiates the relevance of an integrated assessment of the development of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the regions, the results of which are the starting point for the development of an information security strategy for Ukraine. Analysis of recent studies confirms the lack of a generally accepted approach to the integrated assessment of ICT development at the regional level. The purpose of the study is to develop a methodological approach for the integrated assessment of the level of ICT development in the regions of Ukraine using multivariate statistical analysis. The methodological approach is based on a set of principles, functions of analysis, coordination, organization, motivation, control, as well as on scientific and methodological, informational and organizational, regulatory and resource support. The first stage involves the development of criteria for the selection of indicators characterizing the development of ICT; formation of a system of dimensionless indicators; the use of the principal components method for constructing an economic and mathematical model of the integrated ICT Development Index. It is proposed to form an integral index as a linear combination of four group indicators characterizing "Access to ICT", "Use of ICT", "Services in the field of ICT", "Egovernment services". At the second stage, based on the model, it is necessary to create and test a software module that allows assessing the level of ICT development in the regions of the country. At the third stage, it is necessary to organize a process of continuous monitoring of the development of ICT, based on the results of which recommendations and planned activities aimed at the intensive development of digital technologies are developed. It is also necessary to constantly improve the system of primary indicators in order to ensure the adaptation of indicators to international models for calculating integral indices of digital transformation. The results of the calculation of the ICT Development Index made it possible to obtain a rating of the regions of Ukraine for 2020. It was found that 10 regions of Ukraine are distinguished by an unsatisfactory level of ICT development. The results obtained make it possible to predict trends in the regional development of the information society when developing strategies for the state security of the country.