Educational Accountability: High and Low Points of Its Implementation and Challenges for Latin America

• Autores: Luis Felipe de la Vega Rodríguez
• Localización: ESE: Estudios sobre educación., ISSN 1578-7001, Nº. 29 (Estudios sobre Educación; Vol), 2015, págs. 191-213
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.15581/004.29.191-213
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Accountability educacional: luces y sombras en su implementación y desafíos para América Latina
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  • español

    Este trabajo busca avanzar en esta discusión existente respecto del aporte del mecanismo de accountability educacional al desarrollo de procesos de mejoramiento escolar. Para ello, se realizó una revisión de estudios de implementación de políticas educativas que incorporan accountability, preguntándose qué elementos de éste favorecen o dificultan el mejoramiento escolar, enfatizando la relación de estos hallazgos con los contextos en que se han aplicado estas políticas. Al final del trabajo, se incluye una discusión de los resultados de la revisión y proyecciones para el análisis de este fenómeno en América Latina.

  • English

    This work is intended to propel forward the current discussion regarding the contribution of the educational accountability mechanism to the development of school improvement processes. A literature review of a set of implementation studies of educational policies that incorporate educational accountability was conducted to discover what elements of this mechanism help or hinder educational improvement in the specific contexts in which they are applied. A discussion of the results of this review and projections for Latin America are presented at the end of the paper.

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