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Accountability is a crucial issue in university quality control processes. The answerability for performance is usually assessed at the institutional level, granting universities considerable independence. This study presents an overview of accountability as competence at the student level, following a bottom-up approach. The overview exemplifies cases from the design-based study programs. This chapter explores accountability in higher education in a bipartite structure: conceptual and empirical. The conceptual exploration draws a framework of values and principles which guide a designer's approach to the profession and practice, and accountability is one of them. The conceptual overview of accountability focuses on an exchange of reasoning and social practice of being accountable to others. It further discusses design accountability parallel to existing approaches of designing for accountability. The empirical exploration situates accountability in the design education domain as a crucial learning competence to be addressed within the learner-centred paradigm. |
