出版社：University of Belgrade, Teacher Education Faculty
摘要：The aim of this article is to show how a differently organized testing procedure can lead to a better understanding of intellectual capacity in children who live or work in the streets.The study presented in it tried to answer the following questions:1) Does the achievement of children from the Drop–in center improve significantly on a nonverbal intelligence test when solved together with the experimenter? 2) Which type of scaffolding is most effective for children’s task solving–affective–motivational,visual cognitive or verbal cognitive? 3) Which features of the asymmetric interactions enable children to find a solution to the tasks that they previously failed to solve? The sample consisted of 30 children from the Belgrade Drop–in center.Initially,the Kohs block design test was administered independently to children,and if they failed to solve it,the experimenter would provide scaffolding gradually,as listed above.The results showed that the children’s achievement was very low when doing the test independently,but improved significantly when solving the tasks in interaction.According to cluster analysis four groups of children were identified which served as basis for the qualitative analysis.The conversational analysis between the children and the experimenter showed what proved to be the most significant difference between the groups,which is the function of affective–motivational help with task solving.It also demonstrated that the affective–motivational aid was a part of every successful interaction,but usually needed to be combined with its cognitive variants.As these results suggest,the standardized testing procedures need to be adapted so as to make sure that the children understand the demands of the tasks and that they are motivated and supported to reach the goal of the interaction.Only then can we obtain more valid information about the cognitive capacities of the children from the Drop–in center.
关键词：children from the Drop–in center;Kohs block test;asymmetrical interaction;cognitive assessment;dynamic assessment.
其他关键词：деца из Свратишта;Косове коцке;асиметрична интеракција;тестирање когнитивних способности;динамичко тестирање.
