Dynamic assessment and giftedness:<i>The promise of assessing training responsiveness</i>

Abstract

Dynamic assessment is presented as an alternative method of measuring intellectual ability, and ways in which dynamic assessment addresses common criticisms of traditional intelligence tests are discussed. Dynamic assessment can be used to identify children's learning abilities, determine how and/or what to teach, assess giftedness in minority and poor children, control for individual differences, and explore different domains of giftedness in individual children.