Dynamic Assessment

Dynamic Assessment benefits

-helps identify intervention techniques -excellent for developing goals

static assessment

-measures acquired knowledge/skills -little measurement of emerging skills - barely allows for observation of patient as learner -eval is quantitative

scaffolding

-prompts -cues -feedback -explanation -reinforcement -external and internal -instructional techniques

Dynamic Assessment requires

-selection of tasks AND instructional technique -observation/analyzes skills identify patterns, develop hypothesis, and formulate intervention

test-teach-retest

-unaided observation -instruction/facilitation -repeat observation

Key theories

-zone of instructional sensitivity -metacognition -mediated learning experience -scaffolding -active learning -test - teach - retest

when does metacognition emerge?

7-9 years of age

metacognition

assess client's awareness/understanding of language -thinking of thinking

mediated learning experience

experience where learner interacts with teacher/guide who provides scaffolding to facilitate learning process

Dynamic Assessment

measures patient as learner -assess intervention response or facilitation of instruction -eval is qualitative -prescriptive info -use with standardized test

what is Dynamic Assessment?

method attempts to incorporate measurement of performance, learning potential, and effectiveness of intervention.

active learning

purposeful learning with strategies and metacognitive skills

Zone of instructional sensitivity

sone btwn what client can learn without help and what can be learned with instruction/facilitation

static assessment theory

test, test, test