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Relationships Related Term:  trustworthiness n. ~ The ability to answer for, explain, or justify actions or decisions for which an individual, organization, or system is responsible. Citations: †(Lemi [..]
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Holding students, teachers, administrators, and other school personnel responsible for instructional outcomes. Read NAGC's position statement on accountability for gifted student learning.
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The ability to map a given activity or event back to the responsible party.
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Responsabilité
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A key concept in modern management theory and practice. It means that managers are held responsible for carrying out a defined set of duties or tasks, and for conforming with rules and standards appli [..]
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1770, from accountable + -ity. Earlier was accountableness (1660s).
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The legal and political obligation of an independent institution to properly explain and justify its decisions to the citizens and their elected representatives, thereby making it responsible for fulf [..]
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Being answerable for, but not necessarily personally charged with, doing specific work. Accountability cannot be delegated, but it can be shared. For example, managers and executives are accountable f [..]
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Being answerable to one's superior in an organization for the exercise of one's authority and the performance of one's duties. See also Responsibility. [D00010]
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A fair information practices principle, it is the idea that when personal information is to be transferred to another person or organization, the personal information controller should obtain the cons [..]
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the principle that in many multi-user situations, someone must be identifiable in order to take responsibility for actions or for decisions. In these cases, anonymity is not always effective or achiev [..]
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responsibility to someone or for some activity (accountable) liable to account for one's actions; "governments must be accountable to someone beside themselves"; [..]
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1. The property that ensures that the actions of an individual or an institution may be traced uniquely to that individual or institution. [After X9.57] 2. In information systems (IS), the process of tracing IS activities to a responsible source. [INFOSEC-99] 3. In COMSEC, the principle that an individual is entrusted to safeguard and control equip [..]
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Definition A responsibility to perform a specific function by an individual or department.
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noun. 1. the degree to which someone is responsible for actions, verdicts, decisions, and more. 2. in regards to the medical field, how much a healthcare provider, be it an individual or institution, [..]
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The extent to which persons in government and the workplace are held answerable for their conduct in office and for the quality of their performance of assigned duties, particularly when incompetence, [..]
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The requirement that officials answer to stakeholders on the disposal of their powers and duties, act on criticisms or requirements made of them and accept (some) responsibility for failure, incompetence or deceit. Mechanisms for holding officials accountable can be interorganisational, as between branches of government; intraorganisational, as bet [..]
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The obligation to explain and answer for one's actions that are related to expectations, objectives, and goals. In this context, those that are accountable for PSM activities are answerable to th [..]
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Processes used to demonstrate that institutions and individuals have fulfilled their obligations. Learn more about Teacher Accountability.
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The obligation of an individual or organisation to account for its activities, to accept responsibility for them, and to disclose the results in an open manner.
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The principle that individuals, organisations and the community are responsible for their actions and may be required to explain them to others (such as regulatory authorities, shareholders, members and the public).
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The obligation of an employee, agent, or other person to supply a satisfactory report, often periodic, of action or of failure to act following delegated authority/responsibility.
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The recognition and acceptance that one is answerable for whatever happens within a particular area of activity of assigned responsibility regardless of the cause.
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Taking direct responsibility, by name, for the truthfulness and the reliability of the report. Examples include bylines in print and digital journalism and signoffs in audio and video reports.
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Accountability is the obligation of a military officer for keeping accurate record of property, documents, or funds. Generally, accountability is imposed by law, lawful order or regulation. It is not [..]
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Accountability is generally the state of being liable, answerable, or accountable. When applied to a legal context, accountability means that some legal rule(s) exists under which a theory or claim ca [..]
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Responsibility for effective and efficient performance of programs. Measures of accountability focus on (1) benefits accruing from the program as valued by customers and supporters (2) how resources are invested and the results attained.
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a process which requires government to show, explain and justify how it has fulfilled its obligations to the people.
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Members are expected to be accountable to the electorate and to serve with honesty and integrity the best interests of Guyana.
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Ministers have a duty to Parliament to account, and be held to account, for the policies, decisions and actions of their departments/agencies in their portfolio. It is of paramount importance that Min [..]
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(n) responsibility to someone or for some activity
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and division of powers To be accountable means to be answerable, responsible and subject to explaining and justifying one's actions or views.  Within the EU political context a control framewo [..]
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The obligation on universities, colleges and nominated individuals to explain how well they have met their responsibilities, including the proper use of public funds.
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The process through which institutions and individuals are expected to demonstrate the fulfilment of their obligations, including the proper use of public funds.
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Responsibility (and, often, culpability) for the effects of one's actions with an explanation of how and why the actions took place.
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The ability to hold an individual accountable for their actions.  In the case of DRM systems this is achieved by auditing the actions of individuals using protected information.
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Definition: Accountability is an essential information security concept. The phrase means that every individual who works with an information system should have specific responsibilities for informati [..]
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The property that ensures that the actions of an entity can be traced uniquely to that entity. (ASTM E1762 -95). (#)
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in higher education, being answerable to the public, e.g., students, parents, policymakers, employers. Historically, accountability has focused on financial resources; emphasis now extends to students [..]
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a term introduced to the public sector from business management. In education it refers to the idea that the performance (in a variety of areas) of institutions, groups and individuals be judged accor [..]
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n. responsabilización
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The notion that people (e.g., students or teachers) or an organization (e.g., a school, school district, or state department of education) should be held responsible for improving student achievement and should be rewarded or sanctioned for their success or lack of.
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A process whereby data-based measures are used to provide information on institutional performance.
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in assessment refers to holding individuals or institutions responsible for the outcomes of instruction. For example, you might hear or read that "students are accountable for their school succes [..]
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Holding governing bodies, districts, schools, and students responsible for student success as well as the efficient and effective use of money and other resources.  Also implies public reporting of measures and results.
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The demonstration of an employee’s due competence and care in performing functions, responsibilities and obligations as they relate to the intended outcomes of the workplace and thus to the Department’s purpose.
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A systematic approach to gathering measurable data to determine whether teachers, administrators, schools, districts, and states are teaching students effectively and well. Methods include collecting data such as student achievement, performance, attendance, and dropout rates. Many accountability systems are linked to rewards and sanctions. Demonst [..]
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A program, often legislated, that attributes the responsibility for student learning to teachers, school administrators, and/or students. Test results typically are used to judge accountability, and often consequences are imposed for shortcomings.
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— measurable proof, usually in the form of student results on various tests, that teachers, schools, divisions and states are teaching students efficiently and well, usually in the form of student s [..]
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Accountability is the property that ensures that the actions of an entity can be traced solely to this entity. Accountability guarantees that all operations carried out by individuals, systems or proc [..]
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Responsibility for explaining or justifying one's conduct to the public or to one's superiors. (Bioethics Thesaurus)
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Objective demonstration and communication of the effectiveness of a given Program. functional relations, behavioral outcomes, cost benefit, consumer satisfaction, and so on.
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When a manager gives power/responsibility to an employee, the employee ensures that the manager is informed of results or events.
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Companies are accountable to their owners (shareholders). In addition, companies that are providers of financial services in the UK are subject to authorisation and regulation by either the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Prudential Regulation Authority or both authorities.
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  The state of being accountable, liable, or answerable.
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Accountability denotes a relationship between a bearer of a right and the agents or agencies responsible for fulfilling or respecting that right. One basic type of accountability relationship is that [..]
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Level of responsibility for an action
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Accountability means accurate attributions of responsibility, without distortion, minimization, or denial.
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The state of being accountable, liable, or answerable.
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Being held responsible for the actions that lead to a crime. Youth are seen as less accountable than adults; their accountability is measured on the basis of the greater dependency of young persons an [..]
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The process through which institutions and individuals are expected to demonstrate the fulfilment of their obligations, including the proper use of public funds. See: quality control. (14 Jan 2009)
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There is no one sector-wide definition of accountability. The Sphere Project understands accountability as the responsible use by humanitarian agencies of the resources at their disposal. To achieve this, agencies need to
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Refers to the principle outlined by the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Model Code; an organization is responsible for personal information under its control and shall designate an individual or [..]
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Makes sure that the actions of a person or agency may be traced to that individual or agency.
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responsibility to someone for a particular activity. Everyone is accountable for delivering specific results or products as part of their job.
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Liability, answerability; a requirement to account for one’s actions, writings, expenditure, usually in the context of a position of responsibility one occupies. Acute inpatient units
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Being answerable for decisions. When policy decisions are made openly to the population, who are capable of assessing whether it is a decision made in the wider public interest.
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According to George E. Marcus, mainly accountability to the public, a major theoretical and ethical precept of American anthropology since the 1980s.
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Accountability is a concept originating from the field of ethics and bearing several implications and various nuances. In the specific field of governance and public management studies, accountability means that those who work in the public sector must be able to demonstrate that their actions are in keeping with legal, moral, organisational or mor [..]
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the way a public body is held answerable to the public and/or a higher authority for the decisions it takes, including requirements to inform and consult on its plans, report on its performance (finan [..]
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The requirement to explain decisions and actions.
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