new public management also addresses increased demands for accountability and efficiency in education systems that are triggered by decentralisation reforms as stated in the eurydice network s comprehensive publication national testing of pupils in europe in the last two decades national testing has been increasingly introduced as a natural accompaniment to growing school autonomy which has resulted in a need to systematise the monitoring of education systems and in efforts to improve the quality of education in europe decentralisation reforms of the s gave schools more autonomy likewise increasing the need for resultsbased management eurydice network for example in latvia and poland nationallevel measurement tools were implemented following reforms to increase school and teacher autonomy eurydice network