Using children’s ‘ability to learn’ in diagnosis and assessment-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Using children’s ‘ability to learn’ in diagnosis and assessment

Published:2006 Issue:3 Volume:23 Page:6-11
ISSN:0267-1611
Container-title:Educational and Child Psychology
language:en
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Author:

Resing Wilma C.M.

Abstract

This paper describes the various steps in cyclic psycho-educational assessment processes. It is argued that for diagnosticians most diagnostic aims should not stop after the third phase of these processes: forming and testing hypotheses and, based on the outcomes, classifying the child and describing what is wrong with him or her. Additionally, they should search for appropriate remediation or implementation of new elements in teaching the child. It is discussed whether dynamic instead of static assessment outcomes, based on the learning processes of the child during testing or assessment, could be useful ingredients for a prescriptive form of diagnosis directed at new forms of instruction to the child related to his or her instructability.

Publisher

British Psychological Society

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