Authors: Nicholas Sun-Keung Pang

DOI: 10.62670/2308-7668.2024.47.1.005

Source: Issue: vol. 47 No. 1: 29 March 2024 

Publisher: PE "Center of Excellence"

Document type: Research article

Abstract

The Education Bureau in Hong Kong has implemented a two-pronged approach to assuring the quality of education: an external mechanism via inspection and an internal framework via self-evaluation. This paper reviews the quality assurance movement in Hong Kong and examines the characteristics of school selfevaluation and its relationship with change in education. Because change is a complex and dynamic process and difficult to initiate by acting on a single front, it is suggested that a “cocktail approach” of change leadership in education should be adopted to help overcome the resistance to change, afflicting the implementation of school self-evaluation.

Key words: leadership for change, school inspection, school self-evaluation, quality assurance

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