ISBN: 9781032930541 - addressing issues of access and fairness in education through dynamic assessment (3 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. Matthew E. Poehner is Assistant Professor of World Languages Education and Applied Linguistics at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. His research examines the use of Vygotskian theory as both a lens for understanding second language.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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.…