Date: September 25-27, 2013

Place: the Institute of Society of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, room 407

On the 25th and 27th of September in the framework of the project which is being implemented jointly by our University and the Alliance of the Program of the Promotion of the External Testing in Ukraine (USETI Alliance), Mark Zelman, USETI Alliance international consultant (USA) and Zarko Vukmirovic, USETI Alliance international consultant (Croatia) introduced the lectures on the principles and main pedagogical measurements in the USA.

The USETI Alliance experts explained to students and academics of our University the difference in the approaches towards the assessment in the European and American systems of education. Mark Zelman and Zarko Vukmirovic in their presentations pointed out cognitive and non cognitive options which serve as the basis for the American way of assessment. University academic staff was interested in the process of tests development, their implementation and promulgation.

The lectures of Mark Zelman and Zarko Vukmirovic, USETI Alliance international consultants are included into the set of lectures and presentations which will be held during next three years at our University in the framework of the joint project realization between our institution and the Alliance.