Educational Accountability: The State of the Art

“Clearly, the forms that accountability may take in schools and education systems, as a whole, need to be better understood as do the consequences of introducing one form as distinct from another need to be better understood. Hence, the general purpose of this paper – to provide a descriptive account of contemporary educational accountability policies and practices evident in a sample of developed countries around the world (examining the consequences of various accountability tools is beyond the scope of this paper).”

International Network for Innovative School Systems (INIS), Kenneth Leithwood, Karen Edge, Doris Jantzi