Dynamic Assessment (DA) and Evaluation of Problem-solving Skills in Childeren

Introduction:the term dynamic assessment (da) refers to an assessment, by an active teaching process, of a child's perception, learning, thinking, and problem solving. the process is aimed at modifying an individual's cognitive functioning and observing subsequent changes in learning and problem-solving patterns within the testing situation. da has been advocated as an alternative and/or supplemental approach to traditional standardized testing with children who are culturally and linguistically diverse (cld).materials and methods: this study was a causal-comparative with 58 children (6 to 6.5 year-old) of 5 kindergartens of mashhad, and children were elected with available sampling. kindergartens were selected of areas (1,2,4,5,6) of mashhad-iran. variable of intelligence in children, was controlled by the raven’s iq test.results:eight children were perceived process at the level of symbolic, eighteen children in the visual-image (visual) and thirty-two children were perceived process at the level of visual-motor (functional representation). results showed children were perceived process at the level of symbolic, only 50% of them were used these method in practice. these results for children in the visual-image was 66.6% and for children were perceived process at the level of visual-motor was 68.7%.conclusion: dynamic assessment is a method of education and according to methods of teacher (symbolic, visual, functional representation), children also, often engage in the same level of performance and problem solving.