Keyword: «external quality assessment of higher education»

The urgency of the problem under examination is caused by the need to update the content and procedures of external assessment of the quality of vocational education, an essential factor of which is the improvement of expert activity. Identifying the characteristics and potential of expert activity, determining its opportunities for the development of higher education, improving the quality of professional activity, personal and professional improvement of experts will significantly improve its quality. The purpose of the article is to justify the characteristics and potential of the expert activity in the field of external quality assessment of higher education, the identification of which will ensure the objectivity and high quality of this work, the maximum involvement of experts in this type of activity. The leading methods of research of the problem were: pedagogical modeling and design, theoretical analysis and generalization of educational practice of expert activity in the field of external assessment of the quality of education in a university (using the example of accreditation expertise), as well as methods of mathematical statistics, which made it possible to examine the potential of expert activity on the basis of analysis of its complex opportunities associated with the development of higher education, improving the quality of professional activities, personal and professional development of experts. The article reveals a set of theoretical provisions that determine the nature and specificity of the expert activity in the field of external quality assessment of higher education. The potential of expert activity in the field of assessing the quality of higher education in its external and internal aspects, its principles, content and procedure are determined based on the requirements of the legislation of the Russian Federation in the field of education. It was studied on the basis of the opinion of qualified experts in the field of state accreditation of educational institutions and scientific organizations. The materials of the article can be useful for updating the expert activity in the field of external quality assessment of higher education in terms of both the methodology and the procedure for its implementation, taking into account the characteristics and potential of the expert activity, as well as in developing concepts for training experts in the field of external quality assessment of higher education.