Using Australia as a case, it is the purpose of this article to historically investigate the implications of the OECD’s economistic approach to education in terms of accountability in order to add more clarity and body to the concept of intelligent accountability proposed by the British philosopher Onora O’Neill. Such a historical prism offers the opportunity to illuminate past experiences and debates which can then be used as vehicles for gaining insights into the pitfalls and opportunities in terms of accountability in education. The empirical documents under investigation stems from the OECD archive in Paris as well as the national archives of Australia. The material has been selected from a database of OECD archival documents consisting of some 1908 documents on various programmes and activities in education in the period 1961 to 2015. The search criteria in the database has been that ‘accountability’ and ‘Australia’ should occur in the document which has generated some 165 documents. The article argues that a clear distinction can be drawn between accountability to the local stakeholders with the purpose of creating transparency and best practices in terms of running a school in a community versus accountability for external purposes like measuring the performance level of a nation’s labour force, ranking schools, school districts and/or nations against each other. In this light, the article identifies a need for a ‘co-creation’ approach to the development of accountability practices which can serve to establish a fair balance between input and output focus.

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经合组织经济教育方法对问责制的影响：历史案例分析

以澳大利亚为例，本文的目的是从历史上调查经合组织的教育经济学方法在问责制方面的影响，以便使英国哲学家 Onora O 提出的智能问责制概念更加清晰和具体。 '尼尔。这种历史棱镜提供了阐明过去经验和辩论的机会，然后可以将其用作深入了解教育问责制方面的陷阱和机会的工具。调查中的实证文件来自巴黎的经合组织档案以及澳大利亚的国家档案。该材料选自经合组织档案文件数据库，该数据库由大约 1908 份关于 1961 年至 2015 年期间各种教育计划和活动的文件组成。数据库中的搜索标准是“accountability”和“Australia”应该出现在生成了大约165 份文件的文件中。文章认为，可以明确区分对当地利益相关者的问责制，其目的是在社区办学方面创造透明度和最佳实践，而对外部目的的问责制，例如衡量一个国家劳动力的绩效水平，对学校、学区和/或国家进行排名。有鉴于此，本文确定需要一种“共同创造”方法来发展问责实践，这有助于在输入和输出重点之间建立公平的平衡。