ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS OF THE QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF THE US HIGHER EDUCATION
Abstract
The formation and development of quality assessment systems on modern society has become a topical issue for education. The article presents the results of studying some alternative systems of education quality assessment in the US higher education system in the end of the XXth - beginning of XXIst cc. The basis for contrasting the alternative systems with the traditional ones is that they assess the quality of education not in the end of the educational process but in progress. The author refers to some American researchers’ works and studies the US higher education system as it was this system where great progress has been made in improving the quality of human resource development. The author examines the experience of solving this problem on three levels of the US higher education system: the level of an educational institution, the level of a curriculum and the level of the course of study. The article presents the criteria of assessment which can be interesting both for scientific research and for the process of modernization of the system of higher education in Russia.
About the Author
A. . Varlamova
Financial University of the Government of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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