Dynamic Assessment

Cover -- TOC$Contents -- List of Figures -- Part I: Dynamic Assessment - Theory, Models, and Challenges -- CH$1. Introducing Dynamic Assessment -- 1.1 The Role of Assessment in Second Language Education -- 1.2 Contemporary Views on the Relevance of Assessment to Instruction -- 1.3 Assessment and Instruction from a Vygotskian Perspective -- 1.4 Models of Dynamic Assessment -- 1.5 Conclusion and Overview of this Book -- CH$2. The Origins of Dynamic Assessment: Sociocultural Theory and the Zone of Proximal Development -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory of Mind -- 2.3 Theory in Action: The Zone of Proximal Development -- 2.4 Post-Vygotskian Interpretations of the ZPD -- 2.5 Conclusion -- CH$3. Prevailing Models of Dynamic Assessment -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Interventionist DA -- 3.3 Interactionist DA: Feuerstein's Mediated Learning Experience -- 3.4 Applications of MLE in Educational Contexts -- 3.5 Conclusion -- CH$4. Issues In Dynamic Assessment -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Psychometric Criticisms of DA -- 4.3 Mediating Learner Development -- 4.4 Learner Reciprocity -- 4.5 Conclusion -- Part II: Dynamic Assessment and Second Language Development -- CH$5. Toward A Model Of L2 Dynamic Assessment -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Dynamic-like Assessments in an L2 Context -- 5.3 Interventionist L2 DA -- 5.4 Interactionist L2 DA -- 5.5 Ongoing L2 DA Work -- 5.6 Co-constructing a ZPD with L2 Learners -- 5.7 Principles of Classroom-based L2 DA -- 5.8 DA of Oral Communication Among Advanced Learners of L2 French -- 5.9 Conclusion -- CH$6. Understanding L2 Development Through Dynamic Assessment -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Revising Diagnoses of Learners' Abilities -- 6.3 Learner Verbalization -- 6.4 Conclusion -- CH$7. Promoting L2 Development Through Dynamic Assessment -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Evidence of Development over Time -- 7.3 Learners' Emerging Autonomy -- 7.4 Misdiagnosis and Inappropriate Mediation -- 7.5 Conclusion -- CH$8. Profiling L2 Development Through Dynamic Assessment -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Gal'perin's Stages of Performance -- 8.3 Profiling Learner Development -- 8.4 Conclusion -- CH$9. Constructing a Future for L2 Dynamic Assessment -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Computerized Dynamic Assessment -- 9.3 Dynamic Assessment and Peer-to-peer Mediation -- 9.4 Dynamic Assessment and Cognitive Decline -- 9.5 Dynamic Assessment and Social Justice -- References -- IDX$Index -- Last Page.