Abstract Educational psychology is currently dominated by a curious mixture of neobehaviorial and cognitive information-processing psychology. It is from this curious mixture that we, educators, have drawn our current views of curriculum, teaching methods, instructional design and development, lear...
Suppose you are compiling a battery of psychological assessment measures for selection of students at a South African tertiary institution. You decide to include a group test of intelligence (based on the psychometric approach) but given the multicultural context in which you are working, you also administer a test that measures learning potential (using dynamic assessment). Your assignment is to write an essay in which you discuss the theories underlying each of these two types of tests, indicating the value of each approach given the context. Provide an example of a group test of intellige...
