Dynamic Assessment Essay

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Introduction

1.1 Assessment – Purpose and value

Assessments take on many forms, but all have one distinctive purpose, to empower a teacher with a resource that gathers information about students that will later be used for evaluating and analysing students’ knowledge and understanding, guiding teachers on what to report about a student’s achievement to the relevant stakeholders. Krause, Bochner, Duchesne and McMaugh (2010) describes assessment as “The gathering and analysing of information about a student’s achievement”. Assessing and reporting the achievement of a student is fundamental in the process of creating lifelong learners. Brady and Kennedy (2010) define “the purpose of assessment is a method used to make a diagnoses of students learning and progress. Principle one of the School Curriculum and Standards Authority states “Assessment should be an integral part of teaching and learning” (2013). Teachers have a responsibility to their students to ensure they are providing every …show more content…

Krause et al. (2010) describes performance assessments as a way to assess complex tasks such as dance, drama, music, technology and design. Dynamic assessments are an interactive form of assessment, used by teachers to help identify a student’s learning potential and suspected learning difficulties. Dynamic assessments allow teachers to conference and intervene as needed with students, adjusting learning tasks by refocusing and redirecting and revising as necessary (Marsh, 2010). Marsh (2010) also labels formative assessment strategies as a way of raising standards of student’s achievements, this has been more noticeable in children with lower learning ability. Summative and Formative assessments have also been compared as being quantitative - students’ performance as measured by marks or positions on a scale vs qualitative - what students know and can do (Krause et al.,

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