Dynamic assessment and its utilization in preschool age
Abstract
Dynamic assessment constitutes an alternative diagnostic approach, focused on revelation of the tested person's real potential, which is reached and observed via the emphasis on the process of the achievement. It aims at meaningful connection with the intervention that immediately makes use of diagnostic findings to support the development of an individual.
The article issues of the diploma thesis, whose goal was to create the basic, but representative and complex summary about this new diagnostic stream that remains not very developed area in the Czech Republic. The following text summarizes main characteristics of the dynamic approach and shows the possibilities of utilization of the dynamic approach, especially in the area of preschool diagnostic and education, namely through a qualitatively designed comparative research, aimed at the examination of the effect of the preschool adjustment, created on the basis of the dynamic approach. The method serves as an instrument of the prevention of educational and behavioural difficulties during the first years of the school attendance.
Article is an informative summary about the research, contents the interpretation of the theoretic basis of the work.
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Keywords
dynamic assessment, alternative diagnostic approaches, learning potentialLiterature
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