External accountability mechanisms, like the media, courts, councils and legislatures, will need to react to what the data actually shows.
External accountability has attracted significant attention in recent years, but bureaucratic accountability mechanisms, and the interactions between the two forms of accountability, have been relatively neglected.
External accountability to stakeholders might hardly have been considered because strategic documents themselves may be considered a means of accounting to external stakeholders.
External accountability mechanisms identified in the literature include involvement or participation of citizens in clinic and district health committees, the use of patient complaints procedures, provider report cards and patients' rights charters [ 6].
Does external accountability affect student outcomes?
This external accountability can really help people to keep on track.
The flat or declining NAEP scores demonstrate that external accountability systems have failed to lift performance.
An external accountability task force has now been set up to monitor and implement privacy safeguards within the department.
"An External Accountability Task Force, specifically focused on strengthening privacy and information management, has been established within the department's integrity, security and assurance division".
1.16pm GMT Gove says education in Wales is going backwards because the Labour administration abandoned league tables and abandoned external accountability.
Performance Measurement for Effective Management of Nonprofit Organizations explores the impact of measurement on resource allocation, organizational learning, internal processes and internal and external accountability.
