ABSTRACT The aim of the research is to discover the pedagogical and cultural ideas of baron М. О. Korf and their impact on the modern monitoring of quality of education. The pedagogical ideas of baron М. О. Korf refering to the problem of monitoring of quality of education are exposed in the article. In fact he was the first person in Ukraine and Russia who started verification of knowledge of peasants and students. The research methodology is based on the principles of historicism, system-formation, scientific character, verification, the author’s objectivity, moderated narrative constructivism, and the use of general scientific (analysis, synthesis, generalization) and specially pedagogical (empiric, historical comparative) methods. The scientific novelty of the article consists in the fact that for the first time in history of pedagogics it was found out on the basis of works of Mykola Korf and publications of researchers of his inheritance that a teacher tested the knowledge of peasants and students of elementary school and then made a report. A question for conversation was divided into two categories: those which analytically name an object and offer child to define the sign and the ones that enumerate signs synthetically, not naming an object, and offer to thinking of child to recreate an object according to its signs. Nowadays there is the idea that the founder of the world monitoring of quality of education is the American association of Progressive Education Association in the of United States. However, we prove that Mykola Korf measured the quality of knowledge of students, conducted monitoring of quality of knowledge, considerably before associations. Conclusions the results of research allow to assert that the pedagogical ideas of baron M. O. Korf can be considered as basic developments of modern theory and practices of monitoring of quality of education because he organized the research before American association of Progressive Education Association in the of United States. Key words: monitoring, knowledge, methodology, conversation, pedagogical ideas.
CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY OF M. O. KORF IN THE LIGHT OF DEVELOPMENT OF MONITORING OF QUALITY OF EDUCATION