Map accountability logics across countries by computing school-level external control scores in key school functions¶

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Description¶

The article offers a systematic approach for mapping accountability logics: survey school principals on who holds significant responsibility for assessment policies, hiring teachers, choosing learning materials, and deciding budget allocations; code each item external (1) or internal (0); compute country-average external control scores; and classify countries as consistently external, mixed, or consistently internal. The authors state their "findings provide a systematic approach for the mapping of accountability logics across countries."

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Requires principal self-report survey data on responsibility for assessment, human resource, curriculum, and budget decisions
• Requires classification criteria such as the article's absolute 10%/90% thresholds, relative ±1.5 SD cutoffs, or subjective distributional break points

Constraints¶

• Country-level findings need careful interpretation because five sub-national entities were included and some countries' response rates did not support reliable estimates

Target Learners¶

• education policymakers
• school leaders
• comparative education researchers

Target Learning Goals¶

• diagnosing the underlying accountability logic of an education system

Affordances¶

• Logics Of Accountability Four Logic Framework

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Key Sources¶

• Kim, T. & Yun, J. T. (2019). Logics of accountability: Cross-national patterns in school-level controls. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 27(119). https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.27.4597