Document Type
Issue Area Five
Abstract
Over the last 20 years, starting with the minimum competency testing movement of the 1970s, the word accountability has been slowly eroding away and, just recently, has been rendered meaningless due to overuse, misuse, and sophistry. When used in combination with other words like fiscal, educational, and social, the phrase is elevated to the level of an oxymoron (see e.g., Hansen, 1993). A careful reading of any dictionary or thesaurus reveals the following descriptive phrases and synonyms associated with the adjectives accountable and accountability: subject to giving an account, capable of being accounted for, answerable, responsible, liable, explainable, attributable, obliged to account for one's acts.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
4
Issue
2
First Page
157
Last Page
160
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1993 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Ziomek, Robert L.
(1993)
"Putting the Meaning Back into Accountability,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 4:
No.
2, Article 39.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol4/iss2/39
