ACCOUNTABILITY IN SECONDARY-SCHOOL PHYSICAL-EDUCATION

The concept of accountability provided the focus for an examination of how academic work is accomplished in secondary school physical education settings. A model was proposed to determine the interrelationships among the variables associated with accountability, namely, active instruction, monitoring, and the rewards system operating in classes. Questionnaire data were collected from secondary school physical education students (N = 828) as the basis for an analysis of student perceptions of their teachers' use of these accountability strategies. The model was tested through Linear Structural Relations and confirmed that the accountability factors of monitoring directly affected involvement while active instruction and the rewards system affected involvement indirectly through the students' valuing of the teacher. © 1991.