The phrase "account for performance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the reasons or factors that contribute to a particular level of performance, often in a business or analytical context.
Example: "The manager needs to account for performance discrepancies in the quarterly report to understand the underlying issues."
Alternatives: "explain the performance" or "justify the performance".
But schools must be held to account for performance.
But money does not account for performance, according to the evaluations.
It said the BBC would "account for performance more publicly than ever before".
And physicians — facing escalating demands to lower costs, adopt expensive information technology, and account for performance — have been flocking to join them.
The bottom-line result: Pioneers were substantially less profitable than followers over the long run, controlling for all other factors that could account for performance differences.
In his book "Clutch: Why Some People Excel Under Pressure and Others Don't" (Portfolio, 2010), Paul Sullivan looks at the criteria that account for performance -- including financial performance -- in times of challenge or adversity.
Two methods, a hierarchical factor model predicting latent growth and a double dissociation design comparing children divided into high and low performers, tested whether general and/or specific components accounted for performance on intelligence measures.
These methodological factors include making direct statistical comparisons, using common stereotactic space, using both single subject and group analyses, and accounting for performance differences.
In the present set of experiments, we assessed whether the popular dedicated scalar model of timing accounts for performance across a restricted timescale surrounding the 1-second duration for different tasks.
By distributed data, we mean the strategies used to distribute data in a large-scale system while accounting for performance and scalability.
