Quality Assurance in Education

Quality Assurance in Education

Yin Cheong Cheng, (Director and Professor and Wai Ming Tam is Lecturer at The Centre for Research and Development, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong), Wai Ming Tam, (Lecturer at The Centre for Research and Development, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong)

Suggests that there is a strong emphasis on the pursuit of education quality in ongoing educational reforms in both local and international contexts. Policies issued to implement educational changes for education quality often fail because of lack of comprehensive understanding of the complex nature of education quality in schools or higher education institutions. Introduces seven models of quality in education: the goals and specifications model; the resources input model; the process model; the satisfaction model; the legitimacy model; the absence of problems model; and the organizational learning model. Concludes that these models can form a comprehensive framework for understanding and conceptualizing quality in education from different perspectives and facilitating development of management strategies for achieving it. The framework can contribute to ongoing policy discussion, school practice, and research development on issues of quality in education institutions.

表明有較強的本地和國際背景下正在進行的教育改革強調教育質量的追求。政策出台實施教育教育質量的變化往往失敗，因為在學校或高等教育機構的教育質量的複雜性缺乏全面的了解。介紹七款教育質量的目標和規格型號;資源投入模型，過程模型，滿意度模型的合法性模型由於沒有問題的模型和組織學習的模型。得出結論認為，這些模型可以形成一個全面的框架，從不同的角度理解和概念化教育質量和促進發展的管理策略實現。此架構能夠有助於正在進行的政策討論，實踐活動，質量問題在教育機構和研究開發。