Švietimas: politika, vadyba, kokybė /Education Policy, Management and Quality

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Authors: Aušrinė Jarutienė, Vincentas Lamanauskas

In recent years, a lot of attention has been paid to internal audit problems in comprehensive schools. Seeking to analyze information about internal audits carried out in comprehensive schools, the information, which has been analyzed, is presented on websites. Results obtained during the research showed that schools encounter difficulties before presenting Internal audit data on website as well as while processing the obtained data and apparently, there is a lack of concrete directions about how this process has to be carried out. It is obvious, that Internal audit methods are applied ineffectively, it is not clear how information has to be presented and what information should be announced in public. The research showed that the content of presented information is not exhaus-tive, does not represent school evaluation process, schools do not tend to show on websites at what level they evaluated their activities, most frequently only the weakest, strongest points or areas re-quiring improvement are pointed out. This article presents research results, which reveal comprehensive school Internal audit in-formation on websites presentation nuances. After carrying out the research, we can assert that: • There is no common system in comprehensive schools of how to present information on school website about internal audit, access to direct information requires additional time and efforts. • The dominating data presentation form is text. This form is most frequently used by town basic and comprehensive schools. Town gymnasiums use more advanced forms for disclosing internal audit information (slides, tables, charts). • Only one out of 100 comprehensive schools presented information on performed internal audit, which corresponds to Internal audit methods of recommendatory type of information presentation about carried out Internal audit report. • Internal audit methodics in comprehensive school is not treated as important, seeking to inform the consumer about the quality of school activities, because 99% of information can be evaluated as not sufficiently exhaustive or not exhaustive. School location does not have influence on information quality. • 84 schools did not point out which year Internal Audit methodics they were using, the con-sumer has to analyze the presented information himself. • 67 schools did not indicate which year the audit was carried out, therefore analyzed meth-ods presented to the consumer can be interpreted differently as current year indicators, as previous year ones and so on, it becomes complicated to judge about the quality of school, information in itself loses actuality and seizes being informative. • Out of 100 schools, which carried out Internal Audit processes, only 12 schools were pre-sented with activity assessment results. Information dissemination in schools connected with Inter-nal Audit results is not treated as a very important source for disclosing the quality of school activi-ties. • Schools before presenting Internal Audit data on website face difficulties while processing the obtained data and apparently, there is a lack of concrete directions about how this process has to be carried out, the way information has to be presented and what data have to be pointed out seeking to reveal the school quality.

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Authors: Natallia Belavusava

The main mechanism that guarantees the quality of education in Republic of Belarus is based on the state educational standards. According to the current standards, the aim of professional training is to obtain an integrated result: expert (professional) skills coupled with solid general education. This education is build upon the development of a common system of competences. Therefore, the quality of professional education is strongly connected with the problem of the specialist (who has to possess all necessary skills and competencies) formation method. The problem includes development and advancing of the system of competences in the conditions of the current educational process and elaboration of an evaluation methodology and techniques for this system. Taking into account, that the educational process of high school professional training in Belarus includes the studying of four cycles of disciplines (socially-humanitarian, natural-science, general professional and special professional), it is essential to investigate the influence of each of the cycles on the final system of competences formation. In the present article, the capability of the natural-science disciplines cycle for the handling of the professional system of competences development is discussed in reference to military specialties. It has been found that during the professional disciplines studying, the replacement (but not integration) of the knowledge received at the previous stage of the natural-science cycle is taking place. It interferes with principal understanding of natural sciences as a fundamental basis for the professional competence; it does not promote the recognition of cultural and social importance of natural sciences; and, consequently, it does not support the formation of general orientation on continuous self-education in the field of natural sciences. And that is considering that insufficiency of natural-science culture of graduates of military high schools can lead to possible serious economic consequences for the country and risks in the field of national safety. In the course of the experiment, the didactic conditions have been formulated and the model of the ped-agogical process, directed to the elaboration of a persistent natural-science system of competences, has been developed and approved. The incorporation of the conditions and the process does not assume an essential transformation of the volume and structure of class hours allocated to the studying of natural-science disciplines. Introduction of the course "Fundamentals of modern natural sciences » in syllabus of the internal security troops department of military academy of Belarus is essentially new. The technique of examination of the integrative abilities of students with use of the methods of fuzzy mathematics was applied for the evaluation of the developed model efficiency. The interest to this method is caused by the possibility use this approach to deal with estimations of competences, which cannot be unequiv-ocally structured in an algorithm presentation by definition.

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Authors: Vincentas Lamanauskas

A short communication (interview) with associate professor Eleonora Melnik from Karelian State Pedagogical University. The topic of discussion - some trends of education development in Russia.