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Todays Topic

• Dynamic Assessment

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Small Group Activity

• Make a chart of "what" should be assessed and
  "how" that can be assessed, using big paper and
  integrating information from the assigned reading.

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Quick Write

• How could you implement aspects of dynamic
  assessment in to your classroom practice?

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Which assessment procedure is best?

• It all depends on what you want to know.

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Caution!

• Dynamic assessment is not intended as a
  substitute for existing approaches. Dynamic
  assessment is presented as a unique and important
  addition to the diagnosticians repertory.
  Dynamic assessment responds to questions that are
  not addressed by other procedures
• (Lidz, 1991, p. xi).

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Want to compare a student with his/her peers?

• Use a norm-referenced assessment.

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Want to compare a students skills with a
pre-determined developmental hierarchy?

• Use a developmentally-referenced assessment (i.e.
  milestones).

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Want to specify a students current level of
performance? (i.e. What the student knows,
understands, or is able to do.)

• Use a criterion-referenced assessment.

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Want to monitor a students progress within a
curricular sequence? (i.e. math, spelling)

• Use a curriculum-based assessment or measurement
  (CBA or CBM).

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Want to assess a students response to
intervention or problem-solving skills, or the
most effective means of facilitating that
students learning?

• Use dynamic assessment.

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Dynamic Assessment

• Is based on a different concept of intelligence
  from traditional IQ tests it is based on
  students learning ability.
• Provides information on the students learning
  processes (why they might not be learning and
  what supports their learning).
• Provides a direct connection with intervention.

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Key Characteristics of Dynamic Assessment

• Test teach re-test format.
• Focus on learner modifiability.
• Goal of developing learner-specific and effective
  interventions what helps this student learn
  best?

(Lidz,1991)
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Dynamic assessment was never intended to offer
an alternative basis either for classifying
children or for placing them in special education
programs.
(Lidz, 1991, p. 5)
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the intent of dynamic assessment is to improve
understanding of the learner within any
educational setting, as well as inform
interventions within any setting.
(Lidz, 1991, p. 5)
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Looking ahead

• Intervention

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Please take a minute for the minute paper.