MODERN WORLD PRACTICES FOR ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF SECONDARY EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

The article covers modern world practices of assessing the quality of educational activities of secondary educational institutions in Ukraine, Finland, Czech Republic and Singapore.
The author of the article analyzed the problems of implementing the control function: the imbalance between assessing the performance of the organization and balance between workers’ and employers’ interests, formalization of control, etc. It is determined that school internal control as a component of management activities is a system of studying all aspects of the activities of a secondary education institution in order to identify the actual state of affairs and introduce measures to improve the quality of education.
The evaluation of educational and management processes in secondary education institutions in Ukraine is carried out in accordance with the components of the internal system of educational quality assurance, established criteria, and indicators using adequate information collection tools.
In the Finnish education system, a mandatory component of the work plan is the identification of areas of activity to be self-evaluated, the establishment of qualitative or quantitative evaluation criteria, and the planning of changes to improve the activities of the educational institution based on the results of the assessment.
In the Czech system, assessment of educational institution performance is considered as a stage-by-stage process: defining the subject and objectives of control, defining criteria and indicators, obtaining data for defining abstractions, evaluation, and implementation of results.
Singapore's educational system is marked by a well-developed culture and accountability framework implemented in the School Improvement Model (SEM, 2000) format, and includes the tracking of the main indicators of school performance in two categories: «Opportunities» and «Results».
The article concludes that assessment is a part of all quality assurance processes and combines two controversial objectives - performance and quality improvement.