Beyond the tyranny of testing : relational evaluation in education /
"Practices of assessment in education are byproducts of a bygone era. When testing and grades become the very goals of education, learning suffers, along with well-being of students and teachers. In this book, we propose a radical alternative to the measurement-based assessment tradition, a vis...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2020]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Practices of assessment in education are byproducts of a bygone era. When testing and grades become the very goals of education, learning suffers, along with well-being of students and teachers. In this book, we propose a radical alternative to the measurement-based assessment tradition, a vision in which schools are no longer structured as factories, but as sites of collective meaning-making. As it is within the process of relating that the world comes to be what it is for us, we draw from this process our understanding of what knowledge is and what is good and valuable. Equally, learning and well-being are embedded in relational process, which testing and grades undermine"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197529225 0197529224 9780190872779 0190872772 9780190872786 0190872780 |