Educational inspection, as an essential part of the current educational environment, supports
its mission through more pragmatic and comprehensive processes, techniques, and models,
which guarantee the right of students to quality education. The aim of the present study was to
determine the causal effect of gender and age on the dimensions of the instrument in the inspector
population. Specifically, 118 male and female inspectors from the Educational Inspection Service of
Andalusia (Spain) participated, with an average age of 47.56 years ( 5.70). In terms of gender, 30 were
women (25.40%) and 88 were men (74.60%). An instrument was developed specifically for this study
with the purpose of assessing the participants’ opinions of the extent to which their work contributes
to educational improvement. The results evidenced the relationship between the dimensions of the
instrument: attention to members of the educational community (AMEC), supervision of guidance
and tutorial action (SGTA), attention and inclusion of diversity (AID), and technological resources
(TR) (p < 0.01). Similarly, the multigroup model obtained good structural validity ( 2 = 68.180;
RMSEA = 0.078; GFI = 0.923; CFI = 0.959; IFI = 0.967). In terms of gender, no significant differences
were obtained, although the results were moderately superior among males compared to females.
In relation to age, younger inspectors had better TR results, and older inspectors had better AMEC
and SGTA results. The conclusions strengthen the importance of the Education Inspection Service
in educational establishments, highlighting the need to supervise the processes of attention and
inclusion for diversity. A great deal of resistance was observed, especially as there is a lack of training
in information and communication technology (ICT).Junta de Andalucía, research group No. HUM-8