Abstract
A BOOK REVIEW Ehren, M. C. M. (Ed.). (2016). Methods and modalities of effective school inspections . London: Springer International Publishing.
Highlights
In many European educational systems, there has been a tendency to decentralize the authority of decision-making from the central government to the school level (Hopkins et al, 2016)
Many inspectorates of education are responsible for accomplishing all three goals, Ehren focuses on the conflict between the accountability and improvement purposes of school inspections as there is growing awareness that these two perspectives are conflicting rather than complementary functions
This chapter ends with an overview of different inspection systems across the six European countries (England, Ireland, The Netherlands, the state of Styria in Austria, Sweden, and the Czech Republic) studied by Ehren et al (2013), based on these aforementioned standards
Summary
In many European educational systems, there has been a tendency to decentralize the authority of decision-making from the central government to the school level (Hopkins et al, 2016). The aim of Methods and Modalities of Effective School Inspections by Melanie Ehren, reader in Educational Accountability and Improvement at the University College London, is to provide a timely overview of the evidence base of effective school inspections in order to delineate important conditions for improving the quality of education in inspected schools.
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