It is proposed to test children of migrants for Russian language proficiency in Russia. The Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation prepared diagnostic materials for assessing the language adaptation of migrant children.
The head of the ministry, Sergei Kravtsov, said that based on the results, schoolchildren can be sent to additional Russian language courses. In addition, the educational department also published tests to «assess the sociocultural identity (adaptation)» of children with «migration experience.» The Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Sergei Kravtsov told that the children of migrants would begin to be tested for proficiency in the Russian language during parliamentary hearings in the Federation Council.
In the summer, the head of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation, Valery Fadeyev, said that from 50 to 75 percent of children with «migration experience» speak the Russian language poorly or not at all. In some schools in Moscow and St. Petersburg, according to his data, there are up to 20 percent of such students.
Tasks for general and secondary school students are ranked by difficulty and include tests at elementary, basic and advanced levels. In addition to the entrance diagnostics for the level of language proficiency, tests for «assessing the sociocultural identity (adaptation) of a child» for students in grades 5–7, 8–9, and 10–11 also appeared on the portal. Tests for grades 5–7 include diagnostics of the student’s spiritual and moral development, readiness for self-development, and proneness to conflict.
