Beyond the Tyranny of Testing: Relational Evaluation in Education

by Kenneth J Gergen, Scherto R Gill, Scherto R. Gill, et al.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190872764
• ISBN13: 9780190872762
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"