Contesting Educational Accountability Research - Cross-National Dialogues on Quality and Equity

This edited volume explores the evolution and future of educational accountability, highlighting strategies that drive development and improvement. It examines evidence on outcomes and effects, with a focus on performative and market accountability widely adopted and often debated. The book also addresses emerging mechanisms that strengthen education systems, offering global perspectives, case examples, and practical insights. Readers gain a comprehensive understanding of key issues, enabling informed research, policy, and practice, while fostering ongoing dialogue on enhancing educational quality and equity through accountability.
Chapter "Performative Accountability: A Close Examination of a Dominant Model"  is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

List of contents

Preface.- 1. Performative Accountability: A Close Examination of a Dominant Model.- 2. Three Decades of Research on Educational Accountability: Reviewing Influential Articles.- 3. Accountability Tools And Basic Education Assessment: Experiences From Brazil.- 4. Accountability and New Public Management in the Teaching Profession: A Comparative Analysis of Italy, Spain, and Chile.- 5. How to hold weak governments accountable? Tensions between social accountability and state capacities in education in Honduras.- 6. Trends and Tensions in Entrenching and/or Disrupting Performativity Regimes in post-apartheid South Africa.- 7. Deprofessionalization and Segregation in Swedish Education: The Advance of Individualization and the Erosion of the Public Mission.- 8. Looking at the Future of Educational Accountability from the Present.

Product details

• Assisted by: Claudia Lorena Carrasco Aguilar (Editor), Luis Felipe de la Vega Rodríguez (Editor), Luis Felipe de la Vega Rodríguez (Editor), Lorena Carrasco (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 14.05.2026
• EAN: 9783032161116
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3216111-6
• Illustrations: Approx. 160 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Bildungssysteme und -strukturen, Bildungsstrategien und -politik, Educational Policy, International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Assessment and Testing, Educational accountability, Performative accountability in education systems, Educational leadership and accountability frameworks, Educational accountability in weak governments, Professional accountability in school systems, Evidence-based educational accountability strategies, Educational improvement, Case studies on educational accountability mechanisms, Policy trends in education, Global perspectives on educational accountability, Social accountability in education, New public management in education, Comparative studies on educational accountability, Trends in educational accountability mechanisms, Accountability and educational improvement, International perspectives on educational accountability, New public education accountability