caa a22 4500 463159217 CHVBK 20180406164742.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10671-007-9021-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10671-007-9021-2 Gurr David Centre for Organisational Learning and Leadership, The University of Melbourne, 3010, Melbourne, VIC, Australia aut Diversity and progress in school accountability systems in Australia [Elektronische Daten] [David Gurr] School education in Australia is a complex interplay between federal and state governments, and between government and non-government schools. This article explores the supervision of schools in Australia through school accountability systems. Utilising publicly available documents a systematic analysis of the state and territory systems for government schools is provided. It is a paper that attempts to document rather than critique school accountability, although a conceptual framework utilising contractual, moral and professional accountability is used to analyse the different accountability processes reported upon. Contractual and moral accountability is supported by most systems, whilst there is potential to foster professional accountability in only two systems. Fostering professional accountability is important because this is where the internal motivation of teachers helps to drive school improvement. When compared to leading-edge systems, Australian accountability systems are lacking in judgements on teaching practice in individual classrooms, and the use of sophisticated measures of learning and value-added analysis. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 Government schools nationallicence Monitoring nationallicence School reviews nationallicence Performance nationallicence Value-added analysis nationallicence Contractual accountability nationallicence Professional accountability nationallicence Moral accountability nationallicence Educational Research for Policy and Practice Springer Netherlands 6/3(2007-10-01), 165-186 1570-2081 6:3<165 2007 6 10671 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10671-007-9021-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10671-007-9021-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Gurr David Centre for Organisational Learning and Leadership, The University of Melbourne, 3010, Melbourne, VIC, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Educational Research for Policy and Practice Springer Netherlands 6/3(2007-10-01), 165-186 1570-2081 6:3<165 2007 6 10671 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer