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). methods: this study was a causal-comparative that including 58 children of  5 kindergartens of mashhad, with 6 to 6.5-year-old, 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. keywords: children, dynamic assessment, problem-solving, zpd.