Approbation and Implementation of Professional Standard for Educational Psychologists (Psychologist in Education): Regional Experience

Abstract

The paper focuses on the regional experience in approbation and pilot implementation of the professional standard for education psychologists (“Psychologist in Education”) and presents the outcomes of pilot studies of standard implementation carried out in twelve subjects of the Russian Federation in 2015—2017. We describe the stages of informational and analytical support of the approbation rendered in 2017 in the process of implementation of a roadmap developed by the Ministry for Education and Science of the Russian Federation. This roadmap involved a set of research and practice-oriented measures, monitoring studies etc. aimed at testing and implementing the professional standard for educational psychologists. The paper highlights the main problems concerning this new professional standard and provides some recommendations on its effective implementation in the subjects of the Russian Federation within the framework of the existing legislation.