Systems Strengthening
Incentives and Accountability in Education: A Review
This report summarizes information on relevant analyses on incentives that can be applied in developing countries, and their implications for school accountability. Recent results on controlled experiments on incentives and accountability, and on statistical analyses of international test scores within the context of school-based management, have yielded important information that can be used for designing similar programs in other countries. However, the number of these studies is relatively small. USAID explored the following incentive programs:
- Incentives for teachers and teacher accountability;
- Incentives for parents and students; and
- School report cards and school accountability.