An Algorithm for Developing Educational Tasks for the Development of Various Types of Functional Literacy for Students of General Education Organizations

Abstract

In the context of international comparative studies, functional literacy is considered an integral indicator of the national education system quality and a key parameter for assessing the level of student readiness. However, teachers still face the acute lack of assessment and diagnostic materials for determining the level of functional literacy development in general and its individual types. In this study, both theoretical (analysis, analogy, deduction, etc.) and empirical methods were used, including observation, description, and comparison. The study aimed to create an algorithm for developing original assignments for functional literacy development, which allows preparing a significant number of educational assignments for schoolchildren of different ages in a short time. The algorithm, consisting of several steps, allows teachers (both at school and at university) to tackle the lack of assignments for functional literacy development and assessment, to take the individual characteristics of their students into account, and to adapt assignments to the socio-cultural characteristics of a group or class. The presented algorithm is concise, reproducible, easy to use, simplifying the work of teachers and contributing to increased functional literacy of students.