Age-Oriented High School Model: Implementation Outcomes

Abstract

In the age-oriented model, the high school aims to provide conditions for students to identify themselves as capable of goal setting and achievement and to get prepared for self-determination in learning and life. The model was implemented in Univers Gymnasium of Krasnoyarsk. The experimental and control groups of students were surveyed twice — at the end of Grade 9 and at the  end of Grade 11—using a battery of diagnostic methods to evaluate how the model prepared high school students for self-determination. The experimental group included high school students from Univers, and the control one covered students of two neighboring schools. The study revealed significant differences between the groups in every component of preparedness for self-determination: motivation and needs, cognition, and application. Thus, development of self-determination, world outlooks and moral conscience among students is possible and shows better performance in institutions based on the age-oriented model.