Thematic Research Report
Using Accountability Evidence to Support, rather than Distort, Improvement
A global quality-improvement study of balanced incentives, professional learning, equity and verified correction
executive summary cannot be judged without identifying the design should therefore be judged by the educational behaviour it encourages as well as by the accuracy of each released value. The evidence must therefore clarify how accountability evidence supports improvement when it identifies a bounded educational condition, preserves context and uncertainty, assigns response to an authority capable of remedy, and returns to verify whether learners benefited. It distorts improvement when an available measure becomes the objective, when a rank substitutes for diagnosis, when sanctions attach to unstable differences or when institutions are rewarded for excluding difficult cases.
- Research category
- Quality Improvement Methods
- Report archetype
- Quality Improvement Study
- Geographic scope
- Global