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
