Beyond the Tyranny of Testing

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. <p/>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 vitalize 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.<br>