Beyond Testing (Classic Edition)

<p><em>‘It is an exceptionally thoughtful assessment of assessment and I am (along with anyone else who broods about education) much in your debt.’</em> Jerome Bruner personal communication with the author</p><p>When this award-winning book was originally published in 1994 a review in the TES said: ‘<em>Beyond Testing</em> is a refreshingly honest look at the dilemmas facing those who are trying to make educational assessment more supportive of high-quality learning for all pupils and students … It contains powerful and practical messages for assessment developers policy-makers teachers and pupils. It exposes the very different agendas of those who wish to achieve greater system-wide accountability through educational assessment and those who wish to use it to promote improvements in the quality of pupil learning.’ </p><p>Originally written to re-conceptualize assessment in education in the 1990s <em>Beyond Testing</em> has stood the test of time and become a classic text in the field. With its examination of the range of uses of assessment – from teacher assessment and standardized testing to formative assessment and norm-referenced testing – to the purposes of assessment – from accountability to support for teaching and learning – the issues it deals with are as enduring and relevant to education now as they were when it was first published. It offers an unsurpassed framework for educational assessment.</p><p>Now re-released as a <em>Routledge Education Classic</em> and with a new preface from D. Royce Sadler a new generation of educationalists can be introduced to the developments in educational assessment – arguably one of the most hotly contested areas of education – in order to further their own understanding and practice.</p>