20th Anniversary Conference & North American Regional Conference

Dynamic Assessment: Progress, Problems, and Prospects

Fairmont Chateau
Lake Louise
Lake Louise, Alberta
November 2-5, 2008

This conference was devoted to discussion of fundamental issues in dynamic assessment that have not yet been resolved.
Topics will include:

• What does Dynamic assessment actually assess?
• How psychometric does dynamic assessment need to be?
• Can or should Dynamic Assessment replace standardized, normative assessment?
• Why has DA not been more widely adopted, especially by school psychologists?
• What is the role of "non-intellective" variables in dynamic assessment?
• Should special considerations or modifications be made in dynamic assessment when working with indigenous populations or other groups of people unique in worldview?

Conference Files

de Beer: Addressing some of the problems of dynamic assessment by using Item Response Theory and Computerised Adaptive Testing (Powerpoint)

Haywood: DA Workshop (pdf)

Haywood: DA Workshop (Powerpoint)

Haywood: A CELEBRATION OF 20 YEARS OF IACEP, AND A FOCUS ON DYNAMIC ASSESSMENT (Powerpoint)

Haywood: NON-INTELLECTIVE FACTORS IN DYNAMIC ASSESSMENT (Powerpoint)

Karpov: What does Dynamic Assessment actually assess? (Powerpoint)

Karpov: What does Dynamic Assessment actually assess? (Word Document)

Weidl: What does Dynamic Assessment assess? How psychometric does it need to be? (pdf)

Weidl: What does Dynamic Assessment assess? How psychometric does it need to be? (Powerpoint)

Weidl: Definition of Dynamic Testing (DT) (Powerpoint)