FACTORS OF EDUCATION QUALITY ENSURING

Abstract

The growth of information flows in different spheres of life, as well as the decay of some professions and emerging of new ones create new, rapid and, therefore, not always successful transformational processes in education. The problem of ensuring the quality of education has always been and remains topical. This has determined the purpose of the present study. The article analyzes the factors of education quality ensuring, the potential for activity components development of scientific-pedagogical employees at higher education institutions (HEI). The result of interaction between the teacher and the degree applicant in the HEI depends not only on the lecturer and their professional competence, but also on the applicant and formation of their key educational competences. The factors of effective interaction between the parties to educational process through the prism of their educational activity have been determined. The problems in studying the quality of educational activities have been stated. The factors determining the interaction nature of the parties to educational activity have been described.
40 Педагогічна освіта: теорія і практика. Психологія. Педагогіка
Pedagogical Education: Theory and Practice. Psychology. Pedagogy
The conditions of education process development in the higher schools are determined by its nature: the educational process relies upon the research basis, the interaction between the parties, the educational process being practice-aimed. The reserves of ensuring the higher education quality have been identified. One of them is the purposeful development of the lecturers’ pedagogical activity components in the higher education institutions. The structure of components of pedagogical activity of a scientific-pedagogical employee has been considered. The internal factors of ensuring quality of education in relation to higher education institutions have been determined. They determine the basic parameters of the lecturers’ pedagogical activity, the nature of subject-subject interaction in the educational process, which leads to the predicted result and determines the provision of high standards of education. The author proposes a method of measuring the objective indicators of development of the lecturers’ pedagogical activity components. The nature of development of pedagogical activity of scientific-pedagogical employees at higher education institutions is another factor contributing to the quality of education ensuring. The important principles to underlie the development of the lecturers’ activity components and to determine its character are: benevolence, openness, impartiality, constructiveness, perfection.
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