Ubiquitous Assessment: Evaluation Techniques for the New Millennium (Counterpoints) - Softcover

Goodman, Greg S.; Carey, Karen T.

9780820470696: Ubiquitous Assessment: Evaluation Techniques for the New Millennium (Counterpoints)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820470694 ISBN 13: 9780820470696

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2004

In our multicultural world, it is impossible to uphold a standardized conceptualization of ‘normal’. The use of techniques that primarily reinforce competitive sorting is not viable, humanistic, or conceptually valid. This book addresses the immediate and urgent need to both parallel and honor the diversity that typifies our classrooms and communities by promoting ubiquitous assessment, and attending to the individual instructional and therapeutic needs of our students. Ubiquitous Assessment draws attention to the waste that is made of instructional or therapeutic opportunities when assessment is separated from teaching or psychological interventions, and it calls for an immediate, gestalt connection between individuals and their experiences.

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About the Author:

The Authors: Greg S. Goodman works as a school psychologist in Clovis, California, and teaches in the Graduate School of Counseling and Special Education at California State University, Fresno. His most recent works include Critical Multicultural Conversations (2004), Reducing Hate Crimes and Violence Among American Youth (Peter Lang, 2002), and Alternatives in Education (Peter Lang, 1999).
Karen T. Carey received her Ph.D. in school psychology from the University of Cincinnati. She is currently Chair of the Psychology Department at California State University, Fresno, and Coordinator of the school psychology program. Her most recent books include Critical Multicultural Conversations (with Greg S. Goodman, 2004) and Designing Preschool Interventions: A Practitioner’s Guide (1998).

Review:

�Greg S. Goodman and Karen T. Carey create a needed context for assessment by their review of the field’s historical and theoretical foundations. To this they add an ethical and political analysis that is both frank and compelling. With the stage effectively set, the authors go forward in laying out a detailed and practical case for ‘ubiquitous assessment’ in a family of human service professions including education and counseling. They are defining post-modern techniques at a time – and in a field – where such voices are most needed.� (Paul Shaker, Dean, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Canada)
�‘Ubiquitous Assessment’ leads the reader to reflect on the contrast between what educational and mental health professionals know about teaching, learning, and assessment, and the methods presently propagated by some policy makers. Goodman and Carey’s discussion of our current testing obsession and its paradoxical and unethical consequences leads to a comprehensive coverage of evaluation strategies that will be instructive to psychologists, counselors, special educators, and other assessment providers. It is out-standing.� (Paul Beare, Dean, Kremen School of Education, California State University, Fresno)

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