A few major concepts about evaluation and accountability are examined briefly, and related to one another in a manner providing a simple portrayal of part of the mosaic of educational evaluation and accountability. This paper is not intended for evaluation specialists or schoolmen well versed in evaluation theory and practice, but for the practitioner who wants a brief summary of some of the more important notions about evaluation which have been presented during the past several years. Specifically, the following topics are presented: (1) simple illustrations of differences in evaluation, research, assessment, measurement, and accountability; (2) a discussion of some basic evaluation constructs; (3) an analysis of the evaluation features of one accountability law, the 1971 Colorado Accountability Act; and (4) general touchstones for judging the adequacy of an evaluation. (RC)