Проаналізовано освітню діяльність американських вишів, висвітлено історичні підходи до реформування освіти та освітньої діяльності вищих закладів освіти США, розглянуто підходи до оцінювання професійної діяльності викладачів. Наслідуючи принцип історизму, ми коротко проаналізували факти, які були поштовхом до якісних реформ у системі американської освіти. В історичному розгляді вища освіта США характеризується певними особливостями, а саме тим, що типом вищої освіти США стала загальна вища освіта, яка мала довгий шлях формування.
The higher education reform in the USA is conditioned by certain processes of graduates" competitiveness, market orientation and the tendency to form a single educational space. Significant success has been achieved in theUS Higher Education. The American higher education system integrated all the best with the education of other countries and thus influenced to the crisis overcoming in the country, partly contributed to solve the unemployment problem, poverty, improve the women situation, people with disabilities, representatives of national minorities. The history events, socio-economic transformations, aspiration to be a leader in the world market, influenced respectively to the development of state higher educatio&n. Through reforms in American society, education has become more open, diverse, versatile. It differs from European standards, characterized as democratic education, open to all interested persons. The most important achievement of American Educatio&n is the system of teachers" assessment, which involves students, colleagues, the state authority, the administration of Higher Learning Institution. This article focuses on the brief history events of reforming the US education; the approaches to as&sessing the teachers" professional activity; the attempt to compare these reproaches of both system of education: in Ukraine and in the USA. It has been proved that the reform of higher education in Ukraine is aimed at professional development and pe&rsonal growth of the future highly skilled specialist, which is one of the most difficult tasks of the modern educational process, which should ensure the multilateral development of young people who learn, developing and improving not only their pro&fessional qualities, knowledge and skills, but also forming important social features.
