This assessment technique is performed one-on-one, in which the interviewer asks the student to solve a series of problems and explain his or her thinking.
What is a Clinical Interview?
A student is treated to be this during a clinical interview.
What is an expert?
Tailoring to the interviewer’s goals and the student’s attention span demonstrates how a clinical interview has this strength.
What is flexibility?
This is needed to determine what a student is ready to do/needs to learn.
What is the student’s current knowledge?
This assessment compares results to the peers of students.
What is a standardized assessment?
“How did you figure that out?” “Can you explain what you did there?” are examples of an interviewer doing this.
What is probing?
Conducting clinical interviews has been shown to develop and refine this for educators.
What is pedagogical content knowledge?
Concrete-representational-abstract approach, students' explanations of their answers, and encouraging visual representations of the problem are instructional methods that leverage this.
What are the best practices to teach math for students with dis/abilties?
This assessment provides scaffolds or hints to determine how much support a student needs to successfully solve a given problem.
What is a dynamic assessment?
To understand how a student solves and explains their understanding, tasks during a clinical interview are expected to ask these kinds of questions.
What are open-ended questions?
These three aspects can be modified to differentiate a clinical interview for students with dis/abilities.
What is content, process, and product?
Clinical interviews as sensitive assessments inform educators about these three aspects to design better instruction
What is (a) identify the resources that students have at their disposal
(b) identify areas of difficulty
(c) evaluate whether there are shifts in the student’s thinking over time.