Dynamic Assessment in Educational Settings: Realising potential

By Julian G. Elliott. 2003

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This paper outlines current developments in dynamic assessment, an approach that has great intuitive appeal for many professional psychologists and teachers, yet which has, to date, failed to take root in mainstream practice. In highlighting the nature and potential of dynamic approaches, the paper will take issue with those who conceive of these as little more than superior versions of traditional IQ tests. In this respect, it is argued that rather than endeavouring to develop improved tools to undertake the educational psychologist's traditional functions (classification, prediction, selection), we should seek a paradigm shift in which dynamic approaches are utilised to assist psychologists and teachers to collaborate in devising classroom-based educational interventions. The paper concludes by calling for controlled studies that examine the utility of prescriptions based upon dynamic approaches.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• The case for Dynamic Assessment in speech and language therapy (2007, background): “Furthermore, if the recommended intervention is not available in the environment, a child may not reach the potential identified in the DA procedure (Tzuriel, 1992, cited by Elliott, 2003).”