This is a continuation of the article Co-operative model of innovation competitions in pedagogics as a mechanism of reform advancement in education published in no 3 of Issues in Education in 2008. The previous article dealt with the eff ectiveness of competitive and cooperative models from the...

This article is the first in a series of two publications. It compares the efficiency of .rivaling. with that of co-operative models of competitions in education, from the viewpoint of how they correspond to the managerial expectations of the organizers The results of the research were used to...