METHODS AND MEANS OF COLLECTING INFORMATION ABOUT THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION

Abstract

The article shows that the monitoring of the educational process is an important element of the quality assurance system of educational activities and higher education in Ukraine. The choice of methods for collecting information on the quality of education is important in improving the monitoring system. There are various groups of monitoring methods used to diagnose the quality of education: the method of current monitoring is used to determine the changes that occur in the professional development of the individual, due to the educational process; the method of test learning situations, the essence of which is the pedagogical formation of the necessary conditions, allows you to organize learning activities, activate and structure it; the method of conversation (interview) gives the opportunity to obtain information about the formation of students in the main components of educational activities; graphic materials, creative works, technical products of students are necessary for the analysis of results of educational and professional activity; testing is used to compare the obtained data with the average and is the most effective method of collecting information during monitoring; comprehensive, synthetic analysis of information, which is a priority step towards defining goals and ways to achieve them; problem analysis, a method of finding out the difference between an object where a problem exists and another similar object where there is no such problem, ie; analysis of the forces of influence, which allows you to quickly and clearly describe the overall situation that has arisen; The goal tree method is a monitoring process aimed at finding priorities for solving problems in terms of the importance and urgency of solving them; The method of assessing the priorities of problems allows in terms of importance, urgency of development trends (deterioration or improvement) of the quality of education to determine the priorities of problems identified by the relevant table of expert assessments. Important are the methods that allow to obtain information directly from the respondent (primary data), which is characterized by novelty: observations, surveys (questionnaires and interviews), testing, sampling method, which are the most common, which are described in the article.