Dynamic Assessment
Dynamic assessment is a kind of interactive assessment used most in education. Dynamic assessment is a product of the research conducted developmental psychologist Lev Vygotsky.
Theory
Vygotsky's term Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) relates to the gap between what the child can learn unaided and what he or she can learn with the help of an adult or a more capable peer. According to Vygotsky, it is impossible to understand a child's potential intellectual development using a one-way assessment.
Dynamic assessment is an interactive approach to psychological or psycho educational assessment that embeds intervention within the assessment procedure. Most typically, there is a pretest then an intervention and then a posttest. This allows the assessor to determine the response of the client or student to the intervention. There are a number of different dynamic assessment procedures that have a wide variety of content domains.
Education Assessment and Evaluation
- Accreditation
- Bell Curve Grading
- Challenge Index
- Computer-Adaptive Test
- Course Evaluation
- Dynamic Assessment
- E-assessment
- Educational Evaluation
- Educational Testing Service
- Eights System
- Free Response
- Modern Language Aptitude Test
- Multiple Choice
- National Latin Examination
- Nines System
- Pimsleur Language Aptitude Battery
- Plagiarism
- Praxis Test
- Standardized Testing
- Standards-based Assessment
- Tens System