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

Introduction

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 specifi c 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.