Methodological and instrumental means of assessing the quality of dissertation research in general pedagogy

The subject of the research is the means of assessing the quality of dissertation research. The goal is to determine the relevant and reliable methodological and instrumental means of assessing the quality of dissertation research in general pedagogy, history of pedagogy and education. Methodology of the work: general scientific methodology of dialectics and philosophical hermeneutics. Methods: comparison, juxtaposition, analysis, synthesis, content analysis of scientific literature on the problem and dissertations in general pedagogy, history of pedagogy and education, expert assessments. Results of the work: methodological and instrumental means of assessing the quality of dissertation research in pedagogical sciences are determined. Scope of application of the results: preparation of scientific and qualification works in pedagogical specialties, as well as in the pedagogical process of educational organizations of higher education in the context of studying the discipline of a scientific specialty in pedagogical sciences. Novelty: for the first time, the assumption is postulated and proven that the definition of clear criteria and indicators for assessing the quality of scientific and qualification works in pedagogical specialties determines the technology of their preparation and presentation to the scientific and pedagogical community, as well as the validity of the obtained scientific result. Conclusions: 1. Subjects of quality assessment of dissertations in general pedagogy need a systematized presentation of the means of such assessment to ensure mutual understanding in the scientific and pedagogical community and the necessary integration of research findings with the array of results known in science. 2. Systematization of means of assessing the quality of pedagogical research can be carried out on various grounds: procedural-resultative, logical-stage, methodological-instrumental. 3. Means of quality examination can be grouped by the methodological-instrumental feature as follows: methodological means; instrumental means. 4. For the purpose of a more accurate assessment of the quality of dissertation research, it is necessary to grade each of the assessment criteria at least on a four-rank scale: the indicator is expressed, mainly expressed, insufficiently expressed, not expressed.