REVIEW: "EDUCATIONAL INSPECTION AND INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY" BY BLAS CAMPOS BARRIONUEVO

Abstract

The book under review is broadly formulated in three parts. The first two are expository or theoretical contents and the third part has a practical application.

In the first part, up to chapter four, the author defines, describes, and analyses different aspects related to educational quality and efficiency in educational institutions, as well as the different best-known models of quality management, relating the evolution of these models over time and their purpose in relation to the purpose they serve, contextualising in third chapter the current model of quality in our educational system linked to the function of school supervision. In the following two chapters, he establishes a determining enclave in relation to educational inspection and quality in the education system, school supervision and models of action. The last chapter of the book deals with inspection in the university environment from the perspective of a service inspection model of the University of Distance Education.

The last part, linked to the more pragmatic and functional practice of educational supervision, presents a register of supervision indicators with the aim of facilitating the work of inspection, which the author defines as predictors of quality for the stages of Primary and Secondary Education, stressing the idea that these indicators are transferable to other types of education.