Educational Accountability: The State of the Art : International Network for Innovative School Systems (Inis)

by Kenneth Leithwood

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In times of scarce resources, the stakeholders in education demand that schools make their performance transparent to the outside world. National and regional school systems have been responding to this demand by developing and implementing different forms of educational accountability. The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education has developed a framework for accountability in response to the following five issues: who is accountable, to whom, for what, at what level, and with what show more consequences. It identifies a market competition approach, a decentralized decision-making approach, and a professional and management approach. The study describes some of the accountability tools used in the member countries of the International network of Innovative School Systems (Canada, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, and Switzerland) and considers the implications for future policy and practice. show less

Author Information

Kenneth Leithwood

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Kenneth Leithwood is professor emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. Karen Seashore Louis is Regents Professor of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, and Robert H. Beck Chair in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota.