Nowadays the procedure for signing an employment contract with pedagogical workers is determined by the existing provision of an effective contract, where employees’ performance assessment is based on establishing job indicators fulfillment confirmation. The article discusses the methodology of assessing teaching activities in the context of an effective contract based on the analysis of data accumulated by the electronic information educational environment of the Rostov state University of Transport Communication. It is proposed to use such data mining techniques as cluster analysis, network graphs and the definition of outliers. The pedagogical staff of the university is considered as a self-organizing system that seeks for maximizing its profits and preventing dismissals. The results of the study are going to be applied in the development of the automatic control system data of the educational process quality in the decision support subsystem on the extension of employment contracts with teaching staff.

Keywords: automatic control system of the university educational process, labor contract, effective contract, performance indicators of teacher’s work