Dynamic Assessment( DA) and Evaluation of Problem-solving Skills in Childeren

• Main Authors: Hamid Rahbardar, Maryam Ajilian Abbasi, Ali Talaei
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Mashhad University of Medical Sciences 2014-09-01
• Series: International Journal of Pediatrics
• Subjects: children; Dynamic assessment; Problem-solving; ZPD
• Online Access: http://ijp.mums.ac.ir/pdf_3150_39903d3c12c741c38a8faab2cfd0316e.html

  Introduction: The term dynamic assessment (DA) refers to an assessment, by an active teaching process, of a child's perception, learning, thinking, and problem solving. The process is aimed at modifying an individual's cognitive functioning and observing subsequent changes in learning and problem-solving patterns within the testing situation. DA has been advocated as an alternative and/or supplemental approach to traditional standardized testing with children who are culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD). Methods: This study was a causal-comparative that including 58 children of  5 kindergartens of Mashhad, with 6 to 6.5-year-old, with  available sampling.  Kindergartens were selected of areas (1,2,4,5,6) of Mashhad-Iran. Variable of intelligence in children, was controlled by the Raven’s  IQ test. Results: Eight children were perceived process at the level of symbolic, eighteen children in the visual-image (visual) and thirty-two children were perceived process at the level of  visual-motor (functional representation). Results showed children were perceived process at the level of symbolic, only 50% of them were used these method in practice. These results for children in the visual-image was 66.6% and for children were perceived process at the level of  visual-motor was 68.7%. Conclusion: Dynamic assessment is a method of education and according to methods of teacher (symbolic, visual, functional representation), children also, often engage in the same level of performance and problem solving. Keywords: Children, Dynamic assessment, Problem-solving, ZPD.