Beyond the Tyranny of Testing: Relational Evaluation in Education

Beyond the Tyranny of Testing: Relational Evaluation in Education
ISBN-10
0190872772
ISBN-13
9780190872779
Category
Education
Pages
208
Language
English
Published
2020-09-28
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Authors
Kenneth J. Gergen, Scherto R. Gill

Description

Measurement-based assessment has dominated our educational systems at the expense of the learning and the well-being of students and teachers. In this book, Gergen and Gill propose a radical alternative to this broken system, which is based instead on an inspirational conception of schools as sites of collective meaning-making and a relational orientation to evaluation. The authors acknowledge that it is within the process of relating that the world comes to be meaningful for us, and equally, learning and well-being are embedded in relational process, which testing and grades undermine. Providing detailed illustrations using cases from pioneering schools around the globe at both the primary and secondary level, this book demonstrates how a relational orientation to evaluation in education can enhance learning processes, foster students' engagement and vitality relationships, and elevate the evaluation of teaching and the school as a whole. Featuring collaborative learning, dialogic pedagogy, and flexible curricula, relational evaluation truly speaks to the demands of a rapidly changing world.

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