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Ponomarenko N. EVALUATION IN SCHOOL EDUCATION: EXPIERENCE  IN GERMANY AND AUSTRIA

 

Ponomarenko N., Senior lecturer of foreign languages, Mykolayiv National Agrarian University

Abstract

The article covers the problems of evaluation of school education in German-speaking countries of the European Union (Germany and Austria). The stages of development and the main areas of evaluation of this type of education are also identified. In spite of the differences in the school systems of these countries, some common features have been found in the process of studying the developmental stages and main areas of evaluation in school education. In particular, in the 1970-1980s, they conducted system evaluation on a macro level, that is the experts researched the effectiveness of secondary school in Germany or the educational reform in Austrian high school. In the 1990s, the focus was on school self-evaluation. At the beginning of the 2000s, the key areas of evaluation were established and they are still the same today.

It has been found that the key areas of evaluation in school education in Germany and Austria are as follows: international as well as national and regional comparative research on students' performance (PISA, TIMSS, DESI, ELEMENT, LAU); examination of educational standards that determine the level of subject competence at each stage of school education; evaluation of school-leaving examinations; school self-evaluation; inspections with external evaluation functions and national reports on the state of education in the country. It has also been found that the development of evaluation in school education in German-speaking countries of the European Union has led to its institutional establishment. The institutional core of evaluation in school education in Germany and Austria is Federal institutions of school development. There are also new agencies of school inspection on the Federal Land level.

Key words:  educational standards;  evaluation in school education;  external evaluation;  international comparative research on performance;  self-evaluation;  system evaluation.

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