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Showing 1 to 20 of 2543 for “"Accountability"”.
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Accountability in archival science
… with the idea that governments can achieve accountability by providing public access to current records. Some archivists hold the view that the preservation and accessibility of non-current records in archival repositories is similarly related to the principle of accountability; however this …
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Accountability and transformative literacy
In a conceptual study of accountability measures and transformative teaching practices, this extensive literature review investigates the accountability measures in schools such as high-stakes tests and teacher evaluation methods. The study also examines how teachers and schools can meet …
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Reclaiming and Reconceptualizing Accountability
… of the policy levers, referred to as education accountability policy, that have driven entire systems toward the inclusion of student performance data into educator performance ratings and the impact on the profession. Only from an extensive understanding of where we have been can a reimagined …
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Essays in political accountability
… independent essays on the limits of political accountability. In the first essay I analyze an extremely stylized model of political agency with two dimensional outcomes. I show that the non-contractible nature of rewards to the agent (the politician) is especially taxing when the voters want to …
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The Impact of Accountability and Accountability Management on Performance at the Street Level
… but the push for performance may harm genuine accountability. One critical reason for this is that little knowledge has developed about the scope and effect of actual accountability requirements in the public management field. This dissertation furthers our understanding of accountability and …
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Ethical Leadership in the Age of Accountability: Principals' Perceptions of Ethical School Accountability
… the economic neoliberal underpinnings of school accountability processes through the lens of middle school principals in Virginia. A synthesis of Shapiro and Stefkovich's ethics of the profession framework was applied to evaluate the history of accountability legislation in terms of ethical …
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Publicity-driven accountability in China
… theorize the role of publicity in non-electoral accountability. "Publicity-driven accountability" argues that even in highly undemocratic settings officials respond to critical media coverage for two reasons: revealing agency slippage and producing common knowledge about government failings. This …
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Does open data increase government accountability?
… with the impact of open data on government accountability. It critically assesses open data’s ability to increase the accountability of government in practice. The study offers insight into the positive dividends and potentially negative consequences of open data. It considers the potential …
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Accountability in the Thai public sector
… to contribute to the literature on the issue of accountability in public sector organisations in a developing country; and (2) to explore the relationship between accountability theory and accountability aspects implemented and reflected in a developing country. There are three general research …
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Information accountability for mobile financial applications
… discrepancy lies in the lack of convenience and accountability. Thus, we have developed applications, whereby the issues of convenience and accountability are addressed. The applications are built around mobile devices, which will likely make them accessible since members of these demographics …
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Global Health, Social Justice, and Corporate Accountability
Chapter one of the dissertation contrasts libertarian theories to the theories of John Rawls and the human development approach favored by Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen. Libertarian theorists such as Robert Nozick, Murray Rothbard, and Jan Narveson claim that justice is achieved when and only …
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Informal Accountability: Individual Actions and Organizational Consequences
… typically lack the normal controls and formal accountability structures inherent in traditional hierarchical settings, individuals must find ways to hold each other accountable informally. The extant public administration literature on informal accountability is limited and chiefly provides a …
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Records management and the accountability of governance
… in order to avoid any triggers in the accountability process that might adversely affect people's trust. The proper creation, capture, distribution and preservation of judicial evidence in the form of records can help avoid these problems. A trusted government is one that can …
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Individual Criminal Accountability of UN Police Personnel
… Are the UN’s mechanisms for addressing criminal accountability effective? If there is a problem, how can it be mitigated? To answer these questions, the qualifications, qualities and functions of UN police were identified. Next, an attempt was made to quantify the problem of their criminal …
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An evaluation technique for determining educational accountability
<p>Because of the demands for increased student performance being voiced from every phase of the public and private sector, this study attempts to examine the problem and to offer a solution utilizing a concept of evaluation based upon continuous performance measures which will allow the educator …
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An Investigation of Peer Accountability in Healthcare
<p>Peer accountability is the practice of providing feedback to, and receiving feedback from, one’s colleagues (Lockett et al., 2015)—both for the purposes of recognizing good work when it happens, and correcting risky behaviors in the moment. The concept of peer accountability has been …
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Documentation as a Tool for Algorithmic Accountability
This thesis argues that civil liability should rest on the deployer's understanding of system behavior, and that documentation is the necessary tool to accomplish this goal. This work begins by establishing the ``hole'' in current approaches to AI risk regulation, the lack of a civil liability …
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Accounting information discourse and accountability cases from Libya
… to date has focused on explaining disclosure and accountability practices mainly in liberal market economies. Accountability and disclosure studies have been embedded in WestemlEuro-centric economic and social theories. Although there have been a growing number of theoretical accountability …
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Superintendent Longevity In South Carolina Since Accountability Implementation
… South Carolina since the implementation of its accountability model as legislated by `No Child Left Behind' and explore the relationship between superintendent tenure and key factors: 1) district accountability status; 2) district poverty index; 3) district size as defined by enrollment; 4) …
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