No doubt that the scope of vocabulary in teaching/learning English is a primary goal. Dynamic Assessment (DA) serving as both instructional and evaluative device has opened new horizons for vocabulary teaching and assessment. This study, having taken the concept of Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), will meticulously dig into mediated-oriented teaching and assessment. Accordingly, this study w...

let g be a graph with p vertices and q edges and a = {0, 1, 2, . . . , [q/2]}. a vertex labeling f : v (g) → a induces an edge labeling f∗ defined by f∗(uv) = f(u) + f(v) for all edges uv. for a ∈ a, let vf (a) be the number of vertices v with f(v) = a. a graph g is said to be vertex equitable if there exists a vertex labeling f such that for all a and b in a, |vf (a) − vf (b)| ≤ 1 and the in...

The purpose of this study was to examine the role of a dynamic assessment (DA) of decoding in predicting responsiveness to Tier 2 small-group tutoring in a response-to-intervention model. First grade students (n = 134) who did not show adequate progress in Tier 1 based on 6 weeks of progress monitoring received Tier 2 small-group tutoring in reading for 14 weeks. Student responsiveness to Tier ...

Dynamic Assessment is an approach to assessment within Applied Linguistics which is stemmed from Vygotsky’s Socio-Cultural Theory of mind, his concept of Zone of Proximal Development and Feuerstein's theory of Structural Cognitive Modifiability. This study is an attempt to pinpoint the sources of mental processing problems in listening comprehension and applies dynamic interventions to remove t...

The dead-end depth of an element g of a group with finite generating set A is the distance from g to the complement of the radius dA(1, g) closed ball, in the word metric dA. We exhibit a finitely presented group K with two finite generating sets A and B such that dead-end depth is unbounded on K with respect to A but is bounded above by three with respect to B.

The dead end depth of an element g of a group G with finite generating set A is the distance from g to the complement of the radius dA(1, g) closed ball, in the word metric dA defined with respect to A. We say that G has infinite dead end depth when dead end depth is unbounded, ranging over G. We exhibit a finitely presented group G with a finite generating set, with respect to which G has infi...

The dead-end depth of an element g of a group with finite generating set A is the distance from g to the complement of the radius dA(1, g) closed ball, in the word metric dA. We exhibit a finitely presented group K with two finite generating sets A and B such that dead-end depth is unbounded on K with respect to A but is at most two with respect to B. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 20F65

Corresponding author Elaine Cristina Carvalho Moura Universidade Federal do Piauí, campus Universitário Ministro Petrônio Portella, Teresina, PI, Brazil. Zip Code: 64049550 [email protected] Universidade Federal do Piauí, Teresina, PI, Brazil. Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. Conflicts of interest: the authors declare no conflic...

In this study, the authors explore a newly constructed dynamic assessment (DA) intended to tap inference-making skills that they hypothesize will be predictive of future comprehension performance. The authors administered the test to 100 second-grade children using a dynamic format to consider the concurrent validity of the measure. The dynamic portion of the assessment comprised teaching child...