Quality control in education

Quality control in education is part of a national mandate proposed by the Department of Education and the American Society for Quality Control: "The Quality Initiative In American Education." The focus of that initiative is to teach quality control as a concept; our focus is to use quality control. In this research, we attempt to apply quality control tools to classroom situations. We show the limitations of some tools and we show how it is possible to implement and use some quality control tools effectively in special situations. We give definitions of quality control due to Deming, Juran, Crosby, Feigenbaum, and Harrington. We outline a brief history of quality control and the national quality initiative, and we briefly discuss statistical process control (SPC) and its importance in education. We show how quality control is applicable in the field of education. Moreover, there are analogies between quality control, teaching pedagogies, and classroom management. The use of sampling schemes should save teachers time when assessing students' work. In conclusion, we create, in our handbook, stations and charts that will help us identify, monitor and correct (or improve) problems areas in the product we call the student.