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Various changes are taking place in Lithuanian comprehensive schools in recent years. Not all of them can be considered positive and making the system's work effective. The changes taking place encourage natural interest in them. It is necessary not only to fix the current state, but to search for the ways how to optimize the changes taking place and to control them. Education is a complex, manifold phenomenon, the researches of which are complicated and complex as well. In this article Lithuanian comprehensive school senior class pupils' position on current education questions is analysed: preparation and teaching/learning process evaluation, the identification of advantages and disadvantages of education system and other. It is revealed how Lithuanian comprehensive school pupils value current education system, teacher provided knowledge quality and ability to prepare students for further studies at universities and other higher schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyses the problem of an underinvestigated attitude of school learners towards legal education. Since legal education in schools is a freely chosen study subject and the curriculum of the majority of education institutions do not cover this discipline, the research was conducted to identify school learners' attitude towards legal education. The survey involved 310 school students from grades 8-12. The obtained data were processed applying methods of mathematical statistical analysis. In order to define the meaningful differences between the variables, χ2 criterion and Pearson's correlation coefficient were applied. The research results are provided in the conclusions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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