Course 1: Overview of Dynamic Assessment

Course Contents:

1. Concept Introduction 
2. Detailed Video: Test-Teach-Retest
3. Demonstration Video at a Glance: N/A for this module 
4. Resources / Articles

Concept Introduction:

What is Dynamic Assessment and why would you do it?

• In short, DA is a way to examine how a person learns when taught, rather than simply what they know.
• It gives us a way to more accurately identify how a student learns, retains, and transfers new information. 
• You would want to use DA as part of a comprehensive language evaluation, particularly for evaluations of culturally and linguistically diverse populations. 
• The information gleaned from a DA can be used as converging evidence when making clinical decisions.