External Independent Testing in the Context of Improvement of Education Quality

Abstract

The article examines the role of External Independent Testing (EIT) in creation of the national system of education quality monitoring. Defining the quality of education as socially relevant category, the author analyses changes in the public attitudes towards the EIT during the five years of its implementation. Focusing attention on such EIT's task like performance of education quality monitoring at the national level, the author concludes that EIT has to become the main tool of the national system of education quality monitoring, engine of the development and improvement of the educational sphere.