Dynamic Assessment

Educational assessment is the process of documenting, usually in measurable terms, knowledge, skills, attitudes and beliefs. Assessment can focus on the individual learner, the learning community (class, workshop, or other organized group of learners), the institution, or the educational system as a whole. â€oePupils with moderate learning difficulties will have attainments significantly below expected levels in most areas of the curriculum, despite appropriate interventions. Their needs will not be able to be met by normal differentiation and the flexibilities of the National Curriculum. â€oeThey should only be recorded as MLD if additional educational provision is being made to help them to access the curriculum. â€oePupils with moderate learning difficulties have

They can act as a prediction of future results, as well as enabling comparison with a child’s peers.

Static tests are aimed at producing a static end product, with objective scoring, and the context of the tests tends to be standardised for all students, highly structured and formalised, and neither parents nor teachers are present at the time. They may reveal a likelihood of the presence of MLD, but they cannot fill in the details. They deal with cognitive abilities only, not the wide range of other functional abilities and difficulties that are found within a child, including some factors like motivation and emotions.

Dynamic Assessment

Dynamic, teaching assessments shows a child’s learning potential, rather than just providing quick shot of what they already know. They aim to uncover the child’s capacity to understand a concept, and to evaluate how much support or mediation is needed, and what kind is preferred in order to help the child understand.

Dynamic assessments also assess areas like personality and motivational factors amongst