РІSА-2018 AS AN INDICATOR OF THE STATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The article analyzes the main stages and features of the PISA International survey of educational quality, its goals and objectives. The prospects of Ukraine’s participation in this study are outlined. This procedure of the study is described, in particular, the procedure of selecting students to participate in testing. The experience of European countries in an international study of the quality of education is generalized and the impacts of its results on the reform of the national school methods in countries that participate are highlighted. International research tools of the quality of PISA education are characterized and examples of tests and methods of working with them are described as well. The attention was on the fact that paid that the purpose of the PISA study is not so much as the assessment of the quality of mastering learning content items but, above all, to detect the levels of certain competencies formed among students of 15 years of age (skills in different situations). It’s been found out that the category of «literacy» which is used in an international research as a key component of monitoring system of the education quality relates to the category of «key competence» of the State standard of basic and secondary education (Ukraine). PISA research is considered as a tool that enables each participating country to find out the advantages and disadvantages of the national education system and based on these results elaborate the directions that will improve its functioning and in the same time to estimate during upcoming researches the accuracy of administrative decisions approved. The possibility of interpreting of the results of PISA-2018 as an indicator of the state of secondary education in Ukraine and their use in the development of the new Ukrainian school is justified.