Concurrent and Discriminant Validity of a Dynamic Assessment Procedure with Special Needs and Typical Preschool Children.

Autor/in	Shurin, Ruth
Titel	Concurrent and Discriminant Validity of a Dynamic Assessment Procedure with Special Needs and Typical Preschool Children.
Quelle	(1999), (37 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Hochschulschrift; Child Development; Cognitive Processes; Concurrent Validity; Preschool Children; Preschool Education; Rating Scales; School Readiness; Special Needs Students; Test Validity + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kindesentwicklung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Rating-Skala; Readiness for school; School ability; Schulreife; Sonderpädagogischer Förderbedarf; Testvalidität
Abstract	The purpose of this study is to contribute information in the field of dynamic assessment regarding the Application of Cognitive Functions Scale (ACFS) (C. Lidz and R. Jepsen, 1996). The goal of this new procedure is to help establish a zone of proximal development and to assess the young child's emerging skills necessary for school learning. Other dynamic assessment procedures and their contributions to the field of psychology assessment are reviewed, and the need for this new procedure is established with a sample of 26 preschool children. Aspects of validity of the ACFS procedure were then studied. Although the study is limited, pretest to posttest gain scores were found, with some relationship between behavior during mediation and performance on the posttest. These provide evidence that the behavioral scale is reliable. An appendix contains the letter sent for parental consent for children to participate in the study. (Contains 4 tables and 34 references.) (SLD)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC