Accountability and Culture of School Teachers and Principals: An Eight-country Comparative Study

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Dedication
Contents
List of tables, figures, and appendices
Contributing chapter authors
Contributing researchers
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
	Preoccupation with educational accountability as a panacea for educational ills
	Development of accountability theory
2 Teachers’ and principals’ accountability: theoretical background
	Conceptualizing accountability
	Accountability and cultural values
	Accountability and organizational support
3 Study methods
	Introduction
	Data collection
	Study measures
	Analytical approach
	Appendix 3.1: handling of missing data
	Appendix 3.2: the questionnaires used in the study (English version)
	Appendix 3.3: psychometric and questionnaire position of study variables
	Appendix 3.4: check on leveled structure teacher data
	Appendix 3.5a: models for teachers’ external accountability
	Appendix 3.5b: models for teachers’ internal accountability
	Appendix 3.6a: models for teachers’ accountability toward parents
	Appendix 3.6b: models for teachers’ accountability toward school management
4 Study findings
	Introduction
	Accountability distribution
	Cultural values distribution
	Organizational support distribution
	Prediction of teachers’ and principals’ external and internal accountability
	Prediction of accountability: summary
5 Discussion of study findings
	Introduction
	The two dimensions of accountability: external and internal
	Accountability audiences: parents and school management
	Effect of principals’ accountability on teachers’ accountability
	Predicting accountability by personal individualism and collectivism
	Accountability at a country level
	Organizational support as a predictor of accountability disposition
6 Concluding thoughts
	Educators’ accountability versus school accountability
	Focus on internal accountability
	Cultural values and accountability – theoretical and practical implications
	The contingent role of the accountability audience
	Team accountability: a future research direction
References
Index