Rethinking Assessments: Creating a New Tool Using the Zone Of Proximal Development within a Cultural-Historical Framework
This paper presents a picture of the current theoretical positions and methods used to assess children’s development. A maturational understanding of development is seen to be predominately used to inform the assessment tools which track how children develop across the 0—5 age group. This paper prop...
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| description | This paper presents a picture of the current theoretical positions and methods used to assess children’s development. A maturational understanding of development is seen to be predominately used to inform the assessment tools which track how children develop across the 0—5 age group. This paper proposes that with the movement towards a cultural-historical understanding of development, a tool following from this standpoint should be developed. It is envisaged that a new assessment tool will be developed from this analysis. A theoretical rationale is given to support why the Zone of Proximal Development can be used to identify the indicators of children’s actual and potential levels of development, moving away from age/level based testing. Developing an assessment tool aligned to the principles of the ZPD can offer alternative method to assess children’s development in a theoretically robust way, providing empirical evidence to rethink the methodologies of child development assessments. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1b0ad04157ba407e838b41d1697ce5d12022-12-22T01:51:52ZengMoscow State University of Psychology and EducationКультурно-историческая психология1816-54352224-89352016-12-0112333134510.17759/chp.2016120320Rethinking Assessments: Creating a New Tool Using the Zone Of Proximal Development within a Cultural-Historical FrameworkMinson V., 0Hammer M.,1Veresov N.N., 2Australia, Monash University,Australia, Monash University,Australia, Monash University,This paper presents a picture of the current theoretical positions and methods used to assess children’s development. A maturational understanding of development is seen to be predominately used to inform the assessment tools which track how children develop across the 0—5 age group. This paper proposes that with the movement towards a cultural-historical understanding of development, a tool following from this standpoint should be developed. It is envisaged that a new assessment tool will be developed from this analysis. A theoretical rationale is given to support why the Zone of Proximal Development can be used to identify the indicators of children’s actual and potential levels of development, moving away from age/level based testing. Developing an assessment tool aligned to the principles of the ZPD can offer alternative method to assess children’s development in a theoretically robust way, providing empirical evidence to rethink the methodologies of child development assessments.http://psyjournals.ru/en/kip/2016/n3/minson.shtmlCultural-historical theorydevelopmental assessmentsZone of Proximal Development |
| spellingShingle | Minson V., Hammer M., Veresov N.N., Rethinking Assessments: Creating a New Tool Using the Zone Of Proximal Development within a Cultural-Historical Framework Культурно-историческая психология Cultural-historical theory developmental assessments Zone of Proximal Development |
| title | Rethinking Assessments: Creating a New Tool Using the Zone Of Proximal Development within a Cultural-Historical Framework |
| title_full | Rethinking Assessments: Creating a New Tool Using the Zone Of Proximal Development within a Cultural-Historical Framework |
| title_fullStr | Rethinking Assessments: Creating a New Tool Using the Zone Of Proximal Development within a Cultural-Historical Framework |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rethinking Assessments: Creating a New Tool Using the Zone Of Proximal Development within a Cultural-Historical Framework |
| title_short | Rethinking Assessments: Creating a New Tool Using the Zone Of Proximal Development within a Cultural-Historical Framework |
| title_sort | rethinking assessments creating a new tool using the zone of proximal development within a cultural historical framework |
| topic | Cultural-historical theory developmental assessments Zone of Proximal Development |
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