The organisations, including the National Union of Teachers, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) and the American Federation of Teachers, want Pearson to “publicly reject and immediately stop all practices that promote and support the testing obsession”.
The lobby took place outside Pearson’s headquarters in central London on Friday (April 24).
The campaigners also say that Pearson “must call for the cessation of high-stakes consequences that are predominantly based on student test scores”. They believe that the company’s “silence on the current misuse of test results shows a conscious decision to reject the research consensus in the name of profit”.
However, Pearson said that it supported “the principle of fewer, better tests” and in a blog directly responding to the lobby, CEO John Fallon said that exams and assessments “should be just one measure of progress as part of a wider framework”.
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