The report reveals the problem of the creative activity. The gained experience of the solution of the problem has been studied. The effective ways of solving the problem have been proposed. But the inner source of the creative activity is the interest in new knowledge. And an interest is the main motive and acts as the driving force of the learning process. Without the interest to knowledge it is difficult to teach. The solution of this question is the creative activity. The article describes the experience of higher educational institutions of Ukraine аnd Poland, which prepared and have been carrying out training of specialists of fine arts.

The topic of formative assessment has rarely been addressed in Polish educational research studies, and the connection between formative assessment and the school climate has, until now, never been examined. The subject of this quantitative study were the formative assessment practices used by elementary school teachers and the school social climate. The participants were students (N=491) and teachers (N=60). Findings indicate that: (1) to a varying degree, teachers use activities that make up formative assessment, (2) schools differ significantly in their formative assessment practices, (3) the social climate at these schools is positive, (4) formative assessment practices are positively correlated with the school climate.

Dynamic changes characteristic of modern societies, especially those involved heavily in technological transformation create special conditions for adaptation of the network environment to the needs of education. The introduction to this article discusses contexts of the issue as a precondition resulting from the threat of digital divide of teachers. Then, the paper includes considerations on the conditions of the constitution of information literacy as a result of the revision of theory and practice. It proposes a process of examination of teacher information literacy in the digital environment in the perspective of hermeneutic methodology. Conclusions provide the proposal to include research on the development of teacher information literacy in the process of the network society formation.