Education quality monitoring: conceptual approaches and classification of problems
Abstract
The article emphasizes that ensuring the education quality is one of the most important tasks of the state educational policy of Ukraine. Development of education quality monitoring is a key national priority and a necessary condition for ensuring the country’s competitiveness and integration into the European educational space.
The author describes different approaches to the interpretation of the essence of the concept of «monitoring», substantiates the feasibility of its use to assess the quality of education at different levels of functioning. It focuses on the fact that education quality monitoring is considered as a system of information support, a management tool and a set of procedures aimed at monitoring and measuring information on the quality of the educational system.
It is noted that today there is no single conceptual approach to building a system for education quality monitoring in our country, the introduction of new technological solutions to its implementation in educational practice. It is stated that the fundamental basis for the development of monitoring research is the conceptual component, the content of which is to clarify the essence of the category of education quality, substantiation of various models, types, principles and functions of monitoring. This component creates the preconditions for determining the criteria and indicators of education quality and its individual components, methods and techniques of collecting and processing information to improve the quality of Ukrainian educational institutions, comparing achievements with relevant international practices.
The author analyses the scientific literature, which showed that today there is no single generally accepted classification of types, principles and functions of education quality monitoring. The analysed classifications demonstrate the wide possibilities of using monitoring research in terms of scale, purpose and technological solutions, which confirms the high importance and necessity of their use to ensure the education quality in Ukraine.
