External Independent Testing as an Instrument of Education Quality Monitoring

Authors

Keywords:

civil society, state-public education management, external independent testing, education quality, monitoring, national system of the education quality monitoring, international comparative monitoring research

Abstract

The article examines the role of External Independent Testing (EIT) in the contemporary processes of educational reforms, its place in the national system of education quality monitoring. The author defines education quality as socially significant category, and EIT as a mechanism and object of the state-public system of the education management. Based on the analysis of global experience of creation of the national systems of education quality monitoring Ukrainian model is proposed and the ways to build it are outlined. It is highlighted, that EIT has to become the main instrument of this system.

Author Biography

  • Oleksandr Sidorenko, Kharkiv Regional Center for Educational Quality Assessment, 6, Svobody, Kharkiv, 61022, Ukraine; National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, 52-A, vul. Sich Sagittarius, Kyiv, 04053, Ukraine

    Director; Doctor of Sociology, Professor, Corresponding Member,office@zno-kharkiv.org.ua

Published

2019-08-29

Issue

Section

Researches of the Problems of Youth and Education

How to Cite

External Independent Testing as an Instrument of Education Quality Monitoring. (2019). Visnyk of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series Sociological Studies of Contemporary Society: Methodology, Theory, Methods, 993, 146-150. https://periodicals.karazin.ua/ssms/article/view/14074