Bokhove, C;
Jerrim, J;
Sims, S;
(2023)
Are some school inspectors more lenient than others?
School Effectiveness and School Improvement
pp. 1-23.
10.1080/09243453.2023.2240318.
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Abstract
School inspections are a common feature of education systems across the world. These involve trained professionals visiting schools and reaching judgements about the quality of education they provide. Yet there is currently little academic research investigating the consistency of school inspections, including how judgements vary across inspectors with different characteristics. We present new empirical evidence on this matter, drawing upon data from more than 30,000 school inspections conducted in England between 2011 and 2019. Male inspectors are found to award slightly more lenient judgements to primary schools than their female counterparts, while permanent Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) employees (Her Majesty’s Inspectors) are found to be harsher than those who inspect schools on a freelance basis (Ofsted Inspectors).
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Are some school inspectors more lenient than others? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09243453.2023.2240318 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/09243453.2023.2240318 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Ofsted, school inspection, consistency, accountability |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10175359 |
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