ЯКІСТЬ ОСВІТИ: СУТНІСТЬ ТА КОНЦЕПТУАЛЬНІ ПІДХОДИ

Анотація

The most important factor for successful and sustainable development in today’s globalised world is the ability to quickly adapt to international competition. Therefore, one of the priorities of educational policy in Ukraine is to ensure the quality of education and the quality of educational activities. The quality of education as a social category determines the effectiveness and state of the educational process in society, its compliance with the expectations and needs of society in different social groups and has a significant impact on the development and formation of individual competences in civil society and the professional sphere. Quality is becoming one of the main goals of education development in our country at the present stage. Each subsequent education reform aims to improve the quality of education and sees it as the end result, starting from the ground level. Therefore, in modern scientific and terminological sources, the concept of «quality of education is widely interpreted, which is considered from the point of view of philosophy, sociology, pedagogy and remains a controversial issue for many scientists, teachers, methodologists and practitioners. In the process of an intensive search to clarify the essence of the concept of «quality of education», another issue arose that concerns certain aspects of this concept, namely, the definition of the role of quality, which has a significant impact on the quality of education. The basic definitions of the study «education», «quality», «quality of education», and the
main conceptual approaches are revealed. The quality criteria and factors influencing the quality of education in general are characterised. Based on the analysis of research by scientists (A. Bogush, V. Zaychuk, O. Ivanova, V. Kremen, N. Kropotova, V. Nikolayevsky, O. Ostapchuk, O. Savchenko, Z. Seidametova, V. Temnenko), the author summarises and positions her own vision of the concept of «quality of education» as a set of certain criteria and indicators that determine the level of organisation of the educational process and the result in accordance with the requirements of current legislation and international quality standards