It's a difficult issue, isn't it, because the school needs to ensure that students are getting top-quality teaching but teachers, understandably, feel reluctant to open themselves to possible criticism.
I think the system works better if quality assurance isn't seen as a top down approach. If everybody is a partner in working for excellence, teachers need not feel threatened. To begin with teachers can be asked to be self-reflective. They can be asked to note down what they felt went well about a lesson and what could be improved. They could then discuss this with the DOS so that the initiative for improvement comes from them. Peer lesson observation is another useful tool so that teachers can be mutually supportive. A debriefing session with students can also help, with teachers conducting regular discussions with their students about what the class perceives as good.
Feedback from all these activities can be gathered at staff meetings and teachers can make their own action plans for improvement. Of course, this will only work if the necessary support is there in the form of additional training, budgets for equipment and materials, and a general atmosphere of mutual respect.
The main snag about such schemes is that many schools are located in cultures that are strongly hierarchical with managers seeing workers not as equal partners but as subordinates to be controlled. It could be difficult in these situations to persuade the school directors that "people" oriented activities function better by co-operation than by orders from above.
Quality Assurance Of Pharmaceuticals
Quality assurance is a wide range of methods which provide businesses with expected results. It's know that working with quality is one of the possible way to improve the product and as a result number of products sold. It's a good idea to improve quality assurance with information technologies, getting tests results as an electronic document will enable improve the total efficiency of quality service.
The key idea about improving quality assurance with IT technologies is automation. You need to have attention of your employee only in some certain cases, where it's actually needed to do a human check. The task is to automate other processes, which can be performed by computer.
Your tactic and strategy depends on your goals, size of your company, tests scale, but the most common approach for building testing system will include three steps. Researching the object of the test, suggesting and automating test affords, actual test performing and reverse analysis of performed tests. Let's pay attention to every aspect of the test.
First, it's important to research carefully the object of the tests. It can be some computer-related product, for instance software. Then it's important to identify the functions which should be tested in order to evaluate the product performance. There are a different approaches to tests, some should just answer the question "If it works?", others should answer the questions "How good does it work?".
If you deal with some real-world object, then it's obvious that you will need someone help to check the object. But it doesn't mean that you will not be able to automate testing. First, it is easier to test if your tester will have a list of items that should be tested together with description, how to test information. Then some computer software installed on PocketPC can guide the man trough the testing process and suggest a way to put down his opinion of the certain item.
It is important that results of quality assurance tests should be represented as a report, as a single file which is easy to share with others. The most common format for this kind of files is the number of test case together with test description and the values which was obtained. If quality assurance manage have this file, then it would be easy for him to compare actual test results with some key report file.
Actually, here some easy to implement automation is possible. If you have two versions of the test document, one the key document and another the tests results document, then you will be able to pass these documents to some third-party compare utility to perform the comparison. The most popular compare tools suggest a way to automate this task with command line interface.
What to do after the actual tests were designed and performed? It is task to do a reverse analysis. Try to think about tests as a possible opportunity. Try to find some opportunity which will make your products more reliable. Quality tests should not just answer the question if it works or not, they should help you to create a better product.
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