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3: Increasing Program Effectiveness
Effective adult
education programs are those that are accountable. There are many
levels of accountability in a GED program. Administrators are extremely
aware of their fiscal accountability. Instructors, however, may see
accountability in terms of the success of their students passing the GED
Tests. Students may view accountability in an entirely different
manner. They may view accountability as "high performance."
What is accountability?
Read Juliet Merrifield's article entitled "Performance Accountability:
For What? To Whom? And How?"
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/ncsall/research/report1.pdf
This article
identifies the steps required to implement performance accountability.
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