Dynamic Assessment

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Dynamic Assessment CAA

• Biggs (1999) constructive alignment
• Fit for Purpose assessment aligns an
  institutions TL goals to its TL practices
• Dynamic Assesment attempts to modify
  performance through examiner assistance
• Goal( DA) .. To achieve learning potential
  rather than judgement of performance..

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Dynamic Assessment

• Orals
• Judgement Vs Demonstration of achievement and
  development
• Partial Credit
• diagnostic back-tracking to
• detect understanding and mis-understanding
• giving CREDIT where learning potential is
  demonstrated

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Fit for Purpose

• Why? Purpose
• Teaching and learning alignment
• Integration of the learning and asssessment
• How?
• CAA e.g. Partial Credit
• V/M LE fit for learning
• dynamic assessment

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Research Question(s)

• How do we build learning environments ICT (
  CAA/ V/M LEs) that enable learners and
  designers to align
• learning and assessment
• performance and judgement
• potential and achievement

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Dynamic Assessment

• Learning potential assessment
• Mediated assessment
• Testing-the-limits
• Swanson, H L Lussier, C M (2001) A Selective
  Synthesis of the Experimental Literature on
  Dynamic Assessment, Rev. Ed. Research,
  71,2,321-363.