SOME FEATURES OF EDUCATION MONITORING

Education monitoring is quite a fresh field of the science of education, especially in Lithuania. This field is closely interrelated with methodology of educational research, education politics, education management, education economics, etc. The term “monitoring” has recently been introduced. It was first used by naturalists. This term was used in 1972 at a United Nations conference on environmental issues (in Stockholm). The essence of monitoring is consistent diagnostics of in-system processes, when different necessary measurements are carried out in order to get information about development (succession of condition) of the system under investigation (Lamanauskas, 2004). Timely corrections in the progress of educational changes help to avoid gross mistakes and undesirable subsequences.