USA HIGHER EDUCATION REFORMING – EXPERIENCE FOR HIGHER LEARNING INSTITUTIONS OF UKRAINE

Abstract

The higher education reform in the USA is conditioned by certain processes of graduates’ competitiveness, market orientation and the tendency to form a single educational space. Significant success has been achieved in the US Higher Education. The American higher education system integrated all the best with the education of other countries and thus influenced to the crisis overcoming in the country, partly contributed to solve the unemployment problem, poverty, improve the women situation, people with disabilities, representatives of national minorities. The history events, socio-economic transformations, aspiration to be a leader in the world market, influenced respectively to the development of state higher education.
Through reforms in American society, education has become more open, diverse, versatile. It differs from European standards, characterized as democratic education, open to all interested persons.
The most important achievement of American Education is the system of teachers’ assessment, which involves students, colleagues, the state authority, the administration of Higher Learning Institution.
This article focuses on the brief history events of reforming the US education; the approaches to assessing the teachers’ professional activity; the attempt to compare these reproaches of both system of education: in Ukraine and in the USA. It has been proved that the reform of higher education in Ukraine is aimed at professional development and personal growth of the future highly skilled specialist, which is one of the most difficult tasks of the modern educational process, which should ensure the multilateral development of young people who learn, developing and improving not only their professional qualities, knowledge and skills, but also forming important social features.