Psychometric and Psychodynamic testing

Question 1

Frederickson and Cline (2009)

Answer 1

interactive factors framework - environment and management

• dif. between assessments and tests
• focus on deficits, not strengths

Question 2

Kozulin (1998)

Answer 2

retrospective education

- historical - potential to adapt to new strategies or prospective education

Question 3

Alfred Binet

Answer 3

• IQ test - compare mental age with same aged children
  + standardisesd, easy replicable, predictor of achievement and success, estimates stability over time
  – bias to certain ethnicity’s, maybe intelligence and instructional teaching are not correlated, only past learning, not potential to learn,

Question 4

Alloway and Alloway (2010)

Answer 4

WM best predictor of literacy and numeracy at 5yrs old

IQ accounted for a smaller variance

Question 5

Burden (1996)

Answer 5

can help to diagnose, and create interventions

e.g. can change the curriculum to help the child - maybe defeatist?

Question 6

Duckworth and Seligman (2005)

Answer 6

self discipline - measure by self report and teachers ratings - cannot test for this in psychometric - intelligence is more complex

Question 7

Stanford

Answer 7

marshmallow test - delayed gratification, self discipline

Question 8

Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934)

Answer 8

learning is social - therefore structured modifiability

• notion of zone of proximal development
• where performance cannot be achieved unassisted, but can be achieved with the help of of another more capable individual
• spoke about two hypothetical children, both aged 12 years and both functioning at an eight-year-old level on standardised tests. One child may be capable of akin significant gains if assisted, but the other might make only modest gains
• the zone of proximal development in the former child is greater, so it is unwise to suggest that they have the same cognitive profile

Question 9

Jenson (2003)

Answer 9

process where there is plasticity and flexibility in intellectual functioning - relies on interaction between assessor and person being assessed

Question 10

Grigorento (2009)

Answer 10

conjunction with psychometric - looks at child now, and then at potential

Question 11

Pena et al (2006)

Answer 11

story experiment with 2 conditions - create own story in experimental

Question 12

Deutsch and Reynolds (2000)

Answer 12

74% had positive attitudes to DA

Question 13

Tzuriel (2001)

Answer 13

takes more time

• subjective
• cannot generalise across subjects
• drawn on theory - no quantitative research

Question 14

Feuerstein et al (1997)

Answer 14

• found that children immigrating to Israel were often overly represented by intellectual clinical services, being labelled as intellectually inferior.
• created the Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD), where they were given support and guidance (mediation) in their completion
• BUT fault to take into account psychological thinking