Педагогические науки / 4.Стратегические направления реформирования системы образования

Sharina E.P., Dubin A.I., Moskalyonova N.A.

Maritime state university named after G.I. Nevelskoy, Vladivostok

Pedagogical monitoring as toolkit of quality education

The concept of modernization of Russian education and recent government documents on education provide a set of priority measures to ensure the quality of education and to create a system of tracking including the determination of the criteria, procedures and technology assessment, organization of pedagogical monitoring and as an integral tool of management of quality of education.

Modern pedagogical science and practice faced with the need to transition from the traditional ways of collecting information about the school of pedagogical monitoring, under which we understand purposeful, specially organized, continuous monitoring of the functioning and development of the educational process and/or its separate elements for the purpose to ensure timely adoption of adequate managerial decisions on the basis of the analysis of the collected information and pedagogical forecast.

The majority of researchers understand under the quality of education the characteristics of the education system, reflecting the degree of compliance of real achieve the educational outcomes of regulatory requirements, social and personal expectations [1, 4]. The main characteristics of the system of assessment of learning outcomes (the main approaches to the development of tools, the characteristics of verification activities, procedures, and presentation of results) are defined main goals and objectives of. On most occasions before the system of assessment of learning outcomes the main aim is – to receive objective information about the functioning of the education system.

The emergence of the concept of «monitoring» is connected with the establishment and development of the information society, which was in need of objective and subjective information on the progress of the condition of those or other objects and structures. Monitoring is, on the one hand, the system, and on the other hand, is the process, representing a sequential collection of essential and versatile information about the quality of education, its processing, systematization, deep analysis, evaluation, interpretation, forecast of further development of measures on correction of educational process and conditions created for him

Monitoring is polyfunctional character, reflected in the unity of the roles: collection of necessary and sufficient information, its analysis and the assessment, control over the realization of the social order for a quality education, organization of motivational influence on the participants of the educational process, forecast of further development of education and elaboration of recommendations on the introduction of the necessary corrections.

The essence of the pedagogical monitoring is so complicated that all definitions of this concept reflect a different of him angles, functions, features. Nevertheless a circle of the most significant characteristics of pedagogical monitoring marked is: the continuity of the study of one or another object; the duration and systematic tracking; purposefulness of monitoring; the integrity of the monitoring systems.

The structure of the monitoring of how the system is composed of inter-related elements: purpose of the meeting, tracker object, the subjects of the organization and implementation of the monitoring, complex of criteria and indicators for the evaluation, methods of information collection, interaction of which provides for the implementation of monitoring measurements [2].

Assessment of the quality of education (appraisal plan) is divided into assessment of the quality of education - i.e. the assessment of the consumers of educational services (personality, manufacturing, government, education system) and internal evaluation of the quality in the education system (educational authorities, education facilities, study programs, qualified teachers, studying people). Inasmuch as subjects and objects of the evaluation are as whole education system and elements of the this system, evaluation can and should carry out the authorities (federal, regional, municipal governments).In this case you get 20 possible variants of internal evaluation and 5 variants of external evaluation of the education system, many of which are not recorded on any of the levels (figure 1) [3].

 

Figure 1. Subjects, objects and the process of education evaluation

 

Development of a set of criteria and indicators is problematic in connection with the multilateralism of a subject of research. In the selection of criteria and indicators it is important to provide their necessity and sufficiency.

For the collection of information on each indicator are determined the methods of the study with account of the specifics of the studied phenomena and opportunities. Methods shall ensure objectivity, the validity and reliability of the received information, necessary for making managerial decisions.

Consistent orientation to the new socio-cultural situation and the personality-oriented education has led to the deployment of other accents in the understanding of the quality of its results, highlight the individual changes and achievements of the students and a more clear description of the order, at the expense of what they may be provided. To a considerable degree these requirements correspond to criteria-based complex of the authors of the textbook «Management of educational systems». They offer evaluate the quality of education for three groups of criteria, on the basis of the three components of this quality aspects [5].

Criteria of quality of educational process are:

1.        the criterion of the quality of the educational process, submitted by the indicators of the invariant level of education (fundamental, integrity of, the conceptual, the activity character of the content), varied (variety, continuance) and personal level (involvement in the content of the educational process the experience of the students, the consistency of such an experience with regulatory defined practice);

2.        criterion of quality of educational technologies.

Procedural criterion finds its expression in humanity teaching and dialogue forms of interaction between the teacher and the students.

Процессуальный критерий находит свое выражение в гуманистичности преподавания и диалогических формах взаимодействия учителя с учащимися. Criteria of quality of conditions of education are:

1.        quality of final results of control;

2.        effectiveness of the kinds of management activity: motivational-target, informational-analytical, planning-and-forecasting, organizational-performance, control-and-adjustment and the estimated effective;

3.        quality of human, scientific-methodological, psychological conditions.

In a number of criteria for the quality of the final result of education comprises:

1.        the health of students;

2.        formation of the value of the relationship to the surrounding reality: for their Fatherland, to yourself and others, to the activities in them;

3.        education level, defined:

·               personal-semantic relation of the disciple to the material and the process of their own learning activities;

·               autonomy developed by them the ways of the educational work (intellectual, information, research, etc.), in which presented the lessons in the educational process methods of elaboration of training material and the results of accumulating their own experience;

·               mastering of the vast knowledge (knowledge of methods and means of mastering of educational material; processing of the information, given in the word, sign-symbolic and graphical forms);

·               ownership of the logic of the subject knowledge.

The modern stage of modernization of the education, complication of its functions has exacerbated the need to implement a monitoring as a tool for monitoring and evaluating the quality of education. Continuous tracking and adequate assessment of such a complex pedagogical phenomenon, as the quality of education, changing not only with the passage of time, but also depending on the type of educational institution, the educational opportunities of students, etc. may be carried out through monitoring.

Monitoring and evaluation of the quality of education is not an end in itself, they are necessary for the teaching of forecasting and making adequate managerial decisions regarding the progress and results of the educational process. Only professionally and functionally organized monitoring able to meet these requirements.

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