Qulimetry and educology in continuous professional training for socionomic specialists: multidisciplinary approach

At the present stage of continuous professional training development for specialists of socionomic ("helping") professions (such as social pedagogues, social workers, psychologists, experts in social work, doctors and lawyers for social services, tutors, social pedagogues, etc.,) new ways for improving the educational institutions performance engaged in recurrent training are being actively looked for. One of these ways is the development and realization of the content-related and technological basis of the qualitative management processes in professional training of the socionomic profile specialists on the foundation of conceptual educology positions. The purpose of the article is to consider the variative (multidisciplinary) approach to the feasibility of the theoretical and methodological foundations of qualimetry and educology for continuous professional training of socionomic specialists within the system "College – University – Postgraduate Education". The authors present the original interpretation of the concept of qualitative control of continuous management in professional training. Special attention is focused on the eductologic aspects of the design and implementation of the quality management system for recurrent professional training of socionomic specialists. The substantial characteristics of various approaches to the definition of professional education quality, such as subject-oriented, result-oriented, value-oriented, administrative-oriented, market-oriented, benchmarking, and others are presented in the article. The qualimetric and mathematical models of quality assessment in the system of postgraduate education are considered. The results of investigation might be applied in professional training for socionomic specialists.