Mokyklos veiklos kokybės vertintojo savybės ir kompetencijos: mokytojų nuomonės tyrimas
Personal Traits and Competences of School Evaluators: Research on Teachers’ Assessment

Summary/Abstract: Political content of the European Union influences Lithuanian political decisions and states new aims for educational and teaching systems. One of them is to improve the efficiency of EU educational and teaching systems introducing adjusted quality guaranting systems. For this purpose the state educational strategy of modern assessement and evaluation culture is brought to life with the help of internal and external audit methodology. Basic difference of the proposed methods that are cur-rently in use is that attention focused not on the organisation’s activity regulating documents and punishment, but on the activity quality observation: the process is viewed, discussions with teachers, pupils, school administrative staff, other people involved in school work are held and after that recommendations for the improvement are given. For such practice very different personal traits and different competences of school acivity evaluators are needed. An empirical research is presented in the article; its aim is to state identity what personal traits and competences of evaluators marked by the teachers who took part in the survey. The research was performed with the help of a non-standard questionnaire, 485 teachers from all types of secondary schools took part in it. The result of the research shows the teachers’ opinion on the qualities and competences of evaluators and allows to identify the most important ones. According to the teachers’ opinion evaluators should be objective, political, have a positive attitude to things and be responsible. They should know professional teacher’s inner audit Methodology and have research performance competences. Not least important are their abilities to use the activities that help to improve the process of evaluation.

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