ABSTRACT
Accountability has recently been mentioned in Turkey as a solution to the issues of educational governance’s efficiency and effectiveness. School accountability as a concept and its relation to school improvement are not well-known in Turkey. As such and by performing a holistic review, this study aims to investigate the concept of school accountability, how it is conceptualized in education, and how it plays a role in raising academic achievement. The analysis exposes the main approaches and components of accountability in governance for improving schools and provides recommendations for future research and policy studies for school improvement.