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Insights Into Accountability

Some schools and districts are identifying and addressing low school performance by using combinations of outcomes-based administrative accountability and professional accountability.

In research for WCER's Consortium for Policy Research in Education, Jennifer O'Day found that a combination of administrative accountability and professional accountability allows for a more thorough and balanced incorporation of all aspects of accountability.

• It generates and draws attention to information relevant to teaching and learning.
• It motivates individuals and units by offering intrinsic as well as extrinsic incentives to attend and to use that information.
• It builds the knowledge base for valid interpretation of information.
• It allocates resources where they are most needed.