Conclusions and managerial implications The EDUSERV instrument is designed to measure the “perceptions-expectations” approachto service quality.ThefindingsdemonstratedthattheEDUSERVisareliabletool to measure service qualityinsecondary schools. Its five-factor structure revealssimilarity tothe SERVQUALmodeland is usefultodetermine areas requiringimprovement instate secondaryschoolservicequalityinMauritius.Thestudyshowedthattheheterogeneousor generic dimensions of service quality identified by Parasuraman et al. (1985, 1988) are applicableinasecondaryschoolcontextandthatmodificationoftheresearchinstrumentto include industry-specific quality features, as suggested by the original researchers, is appropriate.