ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. Throughout the book it has documented and analyzed the phenomenon of globalizing educational accountabilities. It also argues that the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is part of this problem, because it tends to emphasize the significance of policy and the work of schools in the etiology of variable systemic performance, while downplaying structural inequality and contextual factors. Here we are touching on multilateral modes of accountability that combine informed analysis of Latent semantic analysis (LSA) data with deeply conceptualized local narrative accounts. It offers some brief comments toward a model for thinking about richer forms of educational accountability that work across large-scale data infrastructure. Changing policies and practices is often the primary focus for conducting LSAs and introducing other accountability systems. This book has taken up the methodological challenge of analytically working across the globalization of educational accountabilities.
