Ukraine’s External Independent Testing Innovation

Abstract

In 2008 Ukraine reformed its university admission system and effectively reduced corruption. Despite high confidence ratings, the reform has been watered down since the political change in 2010 and its future remains unclear.

Do Anti-Corruption Educational Campaigns Reach Students? Some Evidence from Russia and Ukraine

“…: Unified State Exam) and Vneshnee nezavisimoe otsenivanie (VNT) (Engl. : External Independent Assessment) -which has reduced bribery at the admissions level [Denisova-Schmidt, Leontyeva 2014; Klein 2014].…”

An experimental evaluation of an anti-corruption intervention among Ukrainian university students

“…This particularly applies to countries like Ukraine, where corruption is endemic in all areas, including the education sector (see, for example, Kipen, 2002, Round and Rodgers, 2009, Osipian 2008a, 2008b, Kovalchuk and Koroliuk 2012, Klein, 2014a, 2014b, Denisova-Schmidt, Leontyeva, Prytula, 2014. Our paper aims to fill this gap, which appears interesting from a policy perspective, as policymakers and researchers may want to know whether such anti-corruption activities actually influence students' behavior in a socially desirable way (in order to reduce corruption as witnessed in Reinikka and Svensson, 2004) or can even be counterproductive (see Gingerich, Oliveros, Corbacho, and RuizVega, 2015).…”