Does Testing Lead to Greater Accountability and Improvement in Education Systems? by Subir Shukla Teaching must be responsive! The ‘Accountability Movement’ Begins Somewhere around the turn of the century, a sort of ‘accountability movement’ began to appear in many education systems across the world. There was a general dissatisfaction with what was felt to be the laissez faire approach to letting children be and allowing anything in the name of child-centred learning approaches. The UK had its ‘Literacy Hour’ where teachers were prescribed a minute-by-minute...