Improving the Effectiveness of Educational Quality Management Mechanisms as the Main Condition for Improving School Educational Outcomes

The paper is devoted to improving the results of a general school by introduc-ing changes to the established practices of decision-making and setting devel-opment goals that have settled in school management practices. The paper is based on materials of a project of targeted methodological assistance to schools with low educational outcomes, that was implemented from 2020 to 2022 in the Russian Federation. The authors set a goal to identify the existence of a correlation between a number of parameters characterising an educational organisation (the proportion of underachieving students), its management style (the director's attitudes, the dynamics of changes in management and peda-gogical practices) and the likelihood of effective implementation of the develop-ment program, observed through increasing students' outcomes. The results show a straight correlation between the principal's attitudes and the results, a straight connection with different weights of different practices from the study set, and no correlation for the proportion of underachieving students. The con-clusion is drawn about the influence of a low level of manager competencies on the director's attitudes, the feasibility of helping schools in identifying and preventing risk factors, the universality of benefits from the introduction of data -driven management mechanisms data in any school, regardless of the depth of underachievement.