Dynamic Assessment in the Language Classroom, Poehner & Lantolf
These are some of the things that I got out of the article:
Formative Assessment (FA):
- helps in teach planning and management
- provides evidence of student learning
- shows where student and teacher are in curriculum
- provides evidence of self-evaluation of teaching
- Shows what student still need to know
- Informal, hit or miss. May over or underestimate student ability
Dynamic Assessment (DA)
- Came from Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)
- Cannot separate assessment and instruction
- Mediation focuses on meaning for development
- Mediation is intervention after assessment? And it is ongoing.
The article gave a lot of information about DA, and I’m really interested to see how it can fit into our kindergarten grades. Also, is mediation given individually? Sounds like it.
Back to Work
13 years ago
1 comment:
Most Dynamic Assessment that I've read about involves the instructor and one other student, but it could be done in small groups too. I bet you do informal DA in your classroom a lot as you mediate language learning and make bridges for your students. Can you think of examples where you do this?
Marilee
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