Dynamic Testing - The Nature and Measurement of Learning Potential

Klappentext This book provides a unique wide-ranging review of virtually all approaches to dynamic testing. Zusammenfassung This book provides a unique wide-ranging review of virtually all approaches to dynamic testing. It suggests alternatives to the typical kinds of testing used in the United States! tests that often seem to stifle rather than encourage the development of human potential. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Theoretical Framework: 1. Abilities as forms of developing expertise; Part II. The Nature of Dynamic Testing: 2. An introduction to dynamic testing; 3. A capsule history of dynamic testing; Part III. Leading Modern Approaches to Dynamic Testing: 4. The approach of Feuerstein; 5. The approach of Budoff; 6. Diverse approaches to dynamic testing; 7. A three-prong approach to dynamic testing; Part IV. Two Case Studies using Dynamic Testing: 8. Using dynamic testing to reveal hidden potential; 9. Combining instruction with assessment: measuring foreign-language learning ability; 10. Measurement aspects of dynamic testing: quantifying change; Epilogue.

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• Authors: Elena Grigorenko, Elena L. Grigorenko, Grigorenko Elena L., Robert J. Sternberg, Robert J. (Yale University Sternberg, Robert J. Grigorenko Sternberg, Sternberg Robert J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.10.2001
• EAN: 9780521771283
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77128-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Basic principles; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Research & Methodology, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, PSYCHOLOGY / Assessment, Testing & Measurement, Learning, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Psychological methodology, Psychological testing and measurement