METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO QUALITY MANAGEMENT OF STUDENTS’ INDEPENDENT WORK

Abstract

The current state of higher education is concerned with development of e-learning, transfer of education to the open information-educational environment, increase of the volume and importance of strengthening the training of students' independent work, mainstreaming the quality of educational services. At the same time, the pedagogical community is concerned with weakening of students’ cognitive abilities and low quality of their independent work. Generally, students carry out independent work in the Internet, which deals with peculiarities affecting its quality. However, the problem of the quality of education is characterized as being in the new phase, which assumes development of education,its guarantees and quality management of education. Detailed quality management of education reviewed as the quality management of individual educational processes solves this problem at the level of a teacher and a student. The research objective is to specify pedagogical instruments contributing to quality management of students’ independent work. The article deals with the urgent methods of management and applies peculiarities of students’ independent work. They are indirect pedagogical management; student self-management; joint management of a teacher and a student. The paper highlights three types of management, which have led to searching for methodological approaches appropriate for each of the type, topic of research and peculiarities of students’ independent work in the Internet. The authors explain the necessity in application of environmental, subject-activity and polysubject approaches to quality management of students’ independent work.