The collegium of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine approved the list of 156 titles of textbooks for the 9th grade of general education institutions, which will be issued at the expense of the state budget in 2017.
The selection of textbooks took place in two stages. At the first, a scientific and methodological examination of draft textbooks was carried out, at the second, teachers and school administrators voted for one or another edition.
All electronic versions of textbook layouts were placed on the state resource – the Repository of educational materials, and teachers voted for them through their personal offices. In this way, those textbooks that are most trusted by educators were determined.
About 51,000 teachers voted for this item in the Repository system. At the level of general educational institutions (ZZZ), the voting was 99.6% (14,680 schools where ninth-graders study).
Unlike previous years, when voting took place on commercial resources, this year the Educational Materials Repository was developed and piloted in a state institution - the Institute for Modernization of Education Content.
Educational materials already known in the educational environment received the highest selection result. The result of the selection was more than two hundred thousand textbooks: "Physics", authors V.G. Baryakhtar, S.O. Dovgiy, F.Ya. Bozhinova, O.O. Kiryukhina. (generalized selection result – 319,574), "Ukrainian literature", author O.M. Avramenko. (251 611), "English language (9th year of study)", author O.D. Karpyuk. (219,757), "Informatics", authors Y.Ya. Ryvkind, T.I. Lysenko, L.A. Chernihova, V.V. Shakotko. (217,020) and others.
However, there are also new author groups, for example: "Biology" textbook for the 9th grade of general educational institutions (authors R.V. Shalamov, G.A. Nosov, O.A. Lytovchenko, M.S. Kaliberda), generalized result of choice - 55,905; "Chemistry" textbook for the 9th grade of general educational institutions (author: O.V. Berezan), the overall result of the choice is 18,886.
The next stage of preparing textbooks for printing is the direct ordering of them by regional departments (managements) of education according to the projected number of students (the maximum number of students during the 5-year interval of textbook use).
On May 18-19, orders for textbooks for each title, compiled for all regions, must be submitted to the tender committee.
This year, for the first time, publishing houses that will print textbooks with state funds must provide the MES with electronic versions of these textbooks for free access.
The Ministry of Education and Science also plans to develop a control system for the delivery of textbooks to each school.
