Efficiency and Effectiveness of Education as Pedagogical and Economic Categories: Problems of Evaluation and Measuring

Abstract

There are different dimensions of the quality of education that have a distinctive role and importance for the preview of the basic features of education quality. In this paper, effectiveness in education is considered as one of the key dimensions of the quality of education, which will be seen also as economic category. In order to clarify conceptualization of the quality of education, main differences in the meaning of the terms efficiency and effectiveness in education were highlighted. System and process characteristics of education were emphasized, and based on these two distinguishing features of education, the specificity of evaluation of effectiveness in education were accentuated. In this paper, main characteristics of assessment of overall effectiveness in some fields of education, including assessment of effectiveness in particular segments (teaching, learning, usage of different methods and organizational forms, assessment in teaching, etc.). Different characteristics of constitution of the teaching effectiveness’ evaluation model, and the potential dilemmas and difficulties during these processes were discussed.