Improving Learning Through Dynamic Assessment

Author : Fraser Lauchlan
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1849053731
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Improving Learning Through Dynamic Assessment written by Fraser Lauchlan and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a practical tool for helping to assess and support children aged 4+ with learning challenges based on an innovative approach. The resource contains photocopiable activities, checklists, handouts for teachers/parents to use with children and training materials explaining the approach in terms understandable to all participating adults.

Author : Dr Fraser Lauchlan
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1839973390
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Applying Dynamic Assessment in Schools written by Dr Fraser Lauchlan and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-05-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynamic assessment is a collaborative, flexible approach to assessment which explores how a child learns and which aspects of their learning require intervention. Learn how you can improve learning with a whole school approach to dynamic assessment complete with classroom ideas, resources, and strategies. The authors who frequently train in DA provide simple explanations of the contemporary model of dynamic assessment that make the links between theory and practice explicit. . Each chapter has designated downloadable resources such as rating scales of affective and cognitive learning, checklists, goal ladders and more with easy-to-follow instructions on how they should be used. This book will support you to understand DA principles and actively demonstrate mediated learning for meaningful interventions, consultations, clear support strategies and effective feedback and feedforward skills to not only help students learn, but to help them learn better.

Author : Matthew E. Poehner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387757759
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dynamic Assessment written by Matthew E. Poehner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-03-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynamic Assessment (DA) reconceptualizes classroom interactions by arguing that teaching and assessment should not be distinct undertakings. This book offers a much-needed coherent framework for co-constructing a ZPD with learners in order to simultaneously reveal the full range of their abilities and promote development. DA has a long history in education but it is new to the L2 field. This book provides the first book-length treatment of DA in the language classroom.

Author : Natalie Hasson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351706721
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dynamic Assessment of Language Learning written by Natalie Hasson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a practical, accessible manual for Speech and Language Therapists, Educational Psychologists and Educators who assess children with language impairments, explaining how and why to implement Dynamic Assessment and gives you a huge range of ready-to-use, practical tools. Where normal assessments simply identify deficits, Dynamic Assessment also identifies the child's potential to learn by allowing for prompts from you, during the assessment, thus far better informing your decisions about appropriate interventions and strategies to help the children you work with. What does this manual offer? Provides a concise introduction to the principles of Dynamic Assessment to make clear the enormous benefits of applying this approach to the assessment of language. Presents a full example of a Dynamic Assessment of Sentence Structure (DASS) to demonstrate how the principles are implemented and the findings applied to plan more effective interventions. All the materials for the DASS are included so that you can use this assessment immediately. Includes numerous templates, generic prompt sheets, score sheets and materials that you can adapt for use in Dynamic Assessments that you devise yourself. Written by Dr Natalie Hasson, a highly experienced Speech and Language Therapist who leads the field in researching the dynamic assessment of language, this is the only Dynamic Assessment manual of its kind.

Author : Matthew E Poehner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317849868
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Addressing Issues of Access and Fairness in Education through Dynamic Assessment written by Matthew E Poehner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increased emphasis in many school systems on formal testing to mark student achievement and hold teachers accountable has begun to heighten concern among many educational policy makers, assessment specialists, and classroom teachers over questions of access and fairness, particularly for learners from culturally different backgrounds and those with a history of academic struggles. This situation echoes that faced by the Russian psychologist L. S. Vygotsky nearly ninety years ago in his efforts to understand processes of development and meet the needs of all learners. His famous proposal of the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) holds that assessments must take account not only of abilities that have fully formed but also those that are still emerging. The diagnostic value of the ZPD lies in identifying the underlying source of learner difficulties as well as their future potential. Since Vygotsky’s time, psychologists and educators have devised a range of practices for engaging with learners in ZPD activity that have come to be known as Dynamic Assessment (DA). In DA, assessors go beyond observations of independent performance and engage cooperatively with learners to both understand and support their development. This process is in full evidence in the papers in this collection, which offers a cross section of applications of DA with diverse populations, including special needs learners, immigrant and minority students, and second language learners. While these papers may be read as cutting-edge academic research, they also represent a commitment to going beyond manifest difficulties and failures to help individuals construct a more positive future. This book was originally published as a special issue of Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice.

Author : Ruth Dann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134552408
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promoting Assessment as Learning written by Ruth Dann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promoting Assessment as Learning sets out to re-examine the relationship between assessment and learning in the classroom. It argues that assessment is an important part of pupil learning, and needs to be understood by pupils in order to help them make judgements about their own progress. This timely book explores the theories of learning and assessment within the context of national tests and also through the theme of self-assessment. It offers practical approaches to help teachers translate national policy into meaningful classroom practice, and suggests ways to help pupils develop their own assessment skills through a process of consolidation, reflection and revision. This book will appeal to new and practising primary school teachers and headteachers and those on in-service courses. It will also be of interest to students on initial teacher training and higher degree courses.

Author : Harry Knoors
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190880562
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evidence-Based Practices in Deaf Education written by Harry Knoors and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the latest research from internationally recognized researchers and practitioners on language, literacy and numeracy, cognition, and social and emotional development of deaf learners. In their contributions, authors sketch the backgrounds and contexts of their research, take interdisciplinary perspectives in merging their own research results with outcomes of relevant research of others, and examine the consequences and future directions for teachers and teaching. Focusing on the topic of transforming state-of-the-art research into teaching practices in deaf education, the volume addresses how we can improve outcomes of deaf education through professional development of teachers, the construction and implementation of evidence-based teaching practices, and consideration of "the whole child," thus emphasizing the importance of integrative, interdisciplinary approaches.

Author : Mark D. Shermis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442208368
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classroom Assessment in Action written by Mark D. Shermis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classroom Assessment in Action clarifies the multi-faceted roles of measurement and assessment and their applications in a classroom setting. Comprehensive in scope, Shermis and Di Vesta explain basic measurement concepts and show students how to interpret the results of standardized tests. From these basic concepts, the authors then provide clear and ordered discussions of how assessment and instruction is integrated into a functional process to enhance student learning. Guidelines are set forth for constructing various common assessments. Procedures are laid out to evaluate and improve assessments once they are constructed. Ultimately, the authors shed light on the myriad of factors that impact test score interpretation. In today's classroom, technology has become a constant companion, and Classroom Assessment in Action exposes teacher candidates to emerging technologies they might encounter in building their repertoire of assessments, whether it be automated essay scoring or electronic portfolios. Classroom Assessment in Action guides its readers to a complete and thorough understanding of assessment and measurement so that they can confidently work with students and parents in explaining results, whether they are from a high-stakes statewide assessment or the grading philosophy to which they ascribe.

Author : Tobias Haug
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019088505X
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Language Assessment Across Modalities written by Tobias Haug and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The identification of language problems and subsequent evaluation of interventions depend in part on the availability of useful and psychometrically robust assessments to determine the nature and severity of their problems and monitor progress. The purpose of these assessments may be to measure a child's language proficiency, that is, how they perform relative to other children and whether they have the language level expected and needed for schooling, or they may have a specifically clinical purpose, to identify the occurrence and nature of a disorder. The purpose of assessment is key to the aspects of language targeted in an assessment and the methods used to target these. In the case of spoken English, there are many language assessments ranging from broad language tests to more narrowly focused measures, reflecting the complexity of the language system and its use"--

Author : Kavitha Rajagopalan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137519967
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Testing and Learning Revolution written by Kavitha Rajagopalan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordon shows how we can use assessment to support teaching and develop students' competencies. Between 2011 and 2013, Gordon chaired an interdisciplinary commission of scholars and thinkers, who connected transformative research and ideas on learning, teaching, measurement, the nature of tests, intelligence, capability, technology, and policy.