Publication: School Autonomy and Accountability in Context : Application of Benchmarking Indicators in Selected European Countries
Date
2010-12
ISSN
Published
2010-12
Author(s)
Abstract
School autonomy and accountability are
two components of School-Based Management (SBM) that
complement each other to increase the operational and
pedagogical efficiency of schools. If schools have enough
operational autonomy to manage their financial and human
resources, then they can become accountable to their
clients, namely their students and their families and, as a
result, increase the probability of improving student
learning (Barrera, Fasih and Patrinos, 2009). Since SBM
encompasses diverse practices and policies applied in
different forms in many countries in the world, the World
Bank has initiated the design of SBM indicators that could
be of use to governments to identify and implement practices
and policies that increase autonomy and accountability and,
by inference, induce the education system to produce better
learning outcomes (World Bank, 2007; Patrinos, 2010).
Citation
“Arcia, Gustavo; Patrinos, Harry; Porta, Emilio; Macdonald, Kevin. 2010. School Autonomy and Accountability in Context : Application of Benchmarking Indicators in Selected European Countries. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21548 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”