Improving Monitoring and Evaluation Activities in High Education

Abstract

At present, global changes are taking place in the system of high education. They are the result of, firstly, serious socio-economic transformations in society, and secondly, integration processes that have occurred in the European educational space. Under these conditions, the issue of the quality of education did not lose its relevance, but also acquired new facets. The level of students’ training in high educational institutions requires an objective assessment at high level. Since modernization of educational space is a difficult and long process, high education institutions must constantly look for new tools, methods and technologies for evaluating the results of educational activities. Professional and pedagogical competence of teachers in the framework of modern system of high education requires constant improvement. The argument for using new methods is that they comprehensively assess emerging competencies. In turn, for the most efficient use of the methods traditionally used, it is necessary to carry out a phased improvement of traditional means of control. To this end, the authors investigated the issue of improving control and appraisal activities in Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University named after Kozma Minin. The aim of the work is to develop a model of teacher’s control and assessment activity in the context of competence approach implementation. The verification of the model was carried out with the help of the research of completion level of qualifying work done by students. The verification was carried out in two stages: before the introduction of the model in 2017 and after the introduction of the model in 2018. The main results and conclusions of the work can be used in development of control and assessment tools for mastering competencies of students of high educational institutions.