This study focused on the accountability performance of public elementary school principals in the division of Northern Samar, Philippines based on the “Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees”. Study revealed that a majority of the principals were in the middle age of their career but a substantial number of them were already near the retirement age, yet only few were young in age; women; enjoyed a maximum of nine (9) relevant administrative trainings; have been in their present position for less than a decade; and finished graduate school education. It was found out in the study that the principals have excellent accountability performance across the determinants, to wit: accountability to the people, responsibility, authority, integrity, competence and loyalty, patriotism and justice, simplicity of lifestyle, and adherence to public interest. Among these determinants, it is only “accountability to people” which surmounted to be with significant difference as regards assessment of the principals’ accountability performance. It can also be gleaned from the study that the principals’ relevant trainings and administrative experience had associations with their accountability performance in the same way that patriotism and justice, and sex had relationships with authority. All other attributed had no bearing with the accountability performance of the principals.
accountability, public elementary school principal, Northern Samar
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