Meeting Accountability or Evading Responsibility.

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Title: Meeting Accountability or Evading Responsibility.
Authors: Johnson, William R.
Source: Theory Into Practice. Dec79, Vol. 18 Issue 5, p372. 7p.
Subjects: Educational accountability, Theory of knowledge, Public schools
Abstract: Explores the intellectual roots of the systems approach to educational accountability. Emphasis on the tentativeness of knowledge and the limits of human intervention; Social and political forces of the 1960s which fueled the demands for accountability in the public schools; Response of educators to what they perceived as the threat of accountability.
Database: Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
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Abstract:Explores the intellectual roots of the systems approach to educational accountability. Emphasis on the tentativeness of knowledge and the limits of human intervention; Social and political forces of the 1960s which fueled the demands for accountability in the public schools; Response of educators to what they perceived as the threat of accountability.
ISSN:00405841
DOI:10.1080/00405847909542860