Dynamic assessment focuses on evaluating a child's learning potential by understanding their cognitive functions and the impact of teaching. It aims to identify the level of investment needed to teach specific rules or principles and pinpoints the cognitive deficiencies and non-intellective factors that contribute to performance issues.
Interaction in class between learners and instructor
Appropriate learning style with individual learning
differrent types of learning in class
Mediation
What is it?
active teaching process, of a child's perception, learning, thinking, and problem solving.
future learning
potentil development
present learning
zone of proximal
past learning
actual development
benefit
identifying which types of intervention will benefit particular individuals.
finding out the modifiability of clients to plan effective intervention.
differentiating between children with Specific Language Impairment and those with low language levels due to English as an Additional Language.
Goals of DA
identify the specific deficient cognitive functions and non-intellective factors that are responsible for failure in performance and how modifiable they are as a result of teaching
assess the nature and amount of investment (teaching) that is required to teach a child a given rule or principle
assess the capacity of the child to grasp the principle underlying an initial problem and to solve it