SED206 midterm

A _____ is a starting point that represents the level of mastery of a task below which the student would correctly answer all items on a test:

Basla

The process of tracing and gathering information from the many sources of background information on a child such as school records, observation, parent intakes, and teacher reports is called:

Collection

Which of the following is NOT a scale of measurement?

Contemporary

The phrase "acceptable level of mastery" normally applies to:

Criterion-referenced tests

Curriculum Based Measurement is most concerned with

Fluency

14 Which type of portfolio houses only the student's best work and generally does not include works in progress?

Showcase portfolio

The ________ of a distribution is the difference between the high score and the low score in the distribution.

Range

Which of the following is NOT a measure of central tendency:

Range

Distance, weight and duration are all examples of _________ data

Ratio

The final thoughts and ideas concerning educational placement and program that need to be made to the school, teachers and parents are called:

Recommendation

By the early 1950s...

Special education services and programs were available in school districts, but often, undesirable results occurred

A communication disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment or a voice impairment is called

Speech and language disorder

Correlations tell us the _________ between two variables.

Relationship

Breaking down a particular task into the basic sequential steps, component parts or skills necessary to accomplish the task is called:

Task analysis

Which type of portfolio involves the student, teacher, and parents contributing to it?

Working portfolio

A _________ correlation has no relationship between the variables:

Zero

T/F? An evaluation of a child with a suspected disability must be made by a multidisciplinary team.

true

Correlations range from _______:

+1.00 to -1.00

In a normal distribution with a mean of 90 and a standard deviation of 10, approximately what percentage of scores fall between 80 and 90?

34

If the standard deviation of a distribution is 6, then the variance is

36

If we had a distribution of 9,11,13,18, and 50, what is the range?

41

The _______ is the mathematical average of the distribution of numbers

Mean

Which of the following is/are greatly affected by an extreme score?

Mean and Range

The _______ is the middle score in a distribution.

Median

The ______ is less affected by extreme scores than the ______. a. Mean/median

Median/mean

Which case set forth future guidelines of P.L. 94-142, including the rights of students with disabilities to have access to a free public education and a mandated requirement to receive special education services even if the school states that it does not have the money to provide them?

Mills v. Board of Education

The _______ is the number in the distribution that occurs most frequently

Mode

When setting up a frequency distribution it is very easy to calculate the _______ simply by inspection.

Mode(s)

If in your distribution you have three or more modes, it is referred to as a

Multimodal distribution

Standardized achievement tests generally rely heavily on:

Multiple choice

A _________ correlation has an indirect relationship between the variables:

Negative

As X increases, Y decreases is an example of a ________ correlation

Negative

In a ________ skewed distribution the majority of scores fall above the mean.

Negatively

Correlations _______ indicate a cause and effect.

Never

3 Numbers on a football jersey are examples of _______ data.

Nominal

________ data is categorical data.

Nominal

A _________ is a large number of children who are representative of all children in that age group.

Norm group

______ compare(s) a person's score against the scores of a group of people who have already taken the same exam:

Norm-referenced tests

First place, second place and third place finishes are examples of ________ data

Ordinal

_______ scales involve the rank order system

Ordinal

Asthma, epilepsy, lead poisoning and diabetes are examples of disorders which would most likely receive a classification of:

Other Health Impairment

Which case involved the ideas that schools may not exclude students who have been classified with mental retardation and that all students must be provided with a free public education?

Parc v. Commonwealth of Pa.

A _________ correlation has a direct relationship between the variables:

Positive

As X increases, Y increases is an example of a ________ correlation.

Positive

In a ________ skewed distribution the majority of scores fall below the mean.

Positively

Which of the following is the weakest correlation?

-.34

Which of the following is the strongest correlation?

-.85

In the distribution 6, 8, 8, 10,11, 14, 17, the median is:

10

In the distribution 9,11,9,15 and 18, what is the median?

11

In 1948, what percent of all children with disabilities received special education? a. 12

12

In a normal distribution with a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 5, what percentage of scores fall between 55 and 60?

13.5

In a normal distribution with a mean of 90 and a standard deviation of 10, what percentage of scores fall between 100 and 110?

13.5

In Brown, the Court ruled that it was illegal practice under which amendment of the US Constitution to arbitrarily discriminate against any group of people?

14th

If the standard deviation of a distribution is 4, then the variance is

16

In a normal distribution with a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 5, what percentage of scores fall between 55 and 65?

16

Section 504 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act is a civil rights law enacted in

1973

The enactment of P.L. 94-142 came in:

1975

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was enacted in:

1990

In a distribution with a variance of 25, the standard deviation would be

5

For the following distribution, 30, 50, 45, 50, 25, 40, 10, 55, 65, 20, 60, 33, 45, 33, 20, the range is:

55

The mean of the distribution 10, 5, 7, 3, and 5 is:

6

34 In a normal distribution with a mean of 90 and a standard deviation of 10, approximately what percentage of scores fall between 80 and 100?

68

In a normal distribution with a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 5, what percentage of scores fall between 45 and 55?

68

In a distribution with a variance of 49, the standard deviation would be

7

In a distribution with a variance of 64, the standard deviation would be

8

If the standard deviation of a distribution is 9, then the variance is

81

In a normal distribution with a mean of 90 and a standard deviation of 10, what percentage of scores fall between 80 and 110?

81.5

In the distribution 9,11,9,15, and 20, what is the mode

9

What is(are) the mode(s) in the following distribution? 9,12,9,12,13, and 20?

9 and 12

In 1975 Public Law ______ set forth federal procedural safeguards for children with disabilities and their parents.

94-142

The Education for all Handicapped Children's Act is Public Law:

94-142

The federal law requiring all states to provide a free and appropriate public education to children with disabilities from age 3 to 5 years.

94-142

A thorough ecological assessment should include

All of the above

Which of the following is NOT a criticism of standardized tests?

All of the above are criticisms of standardized tests

Which of the following is not normally a column when setting up a frequency distribution?

All of the above are normally columns used when setting up a frequency distribution

Valuable information about the student's skills and needs can come from:

All of the above can give valuable information about a student's skills and needs

Which of the following is the primary purpose of assessment?

All of the above serve as primary purposes of assessment

The processing and understanding of patterns in the child's educational, social, developmental, environmental, medical, and emotional history is called:

Analysis

Naturalistic based assessment and performance based assessment are synonymous with:

Authentic assessment

A developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age 3 years is called

Autism

12 Legislation and court cases to prevent discrimination in education first came to notice in 1954 with the famous case:

Brown v. Board of Education

A _____ is an ending point that represents the level of mastery of a task above which the student would incorrectly answer all future items on a test:

Ceiling

________ are any information gathered and collected through your research in the assessment

Data

The measurement of the presence of a suspected disability and the knowledge of the criteria that constitute each category is called:

Determination

Which of the following involves "graduated prompting?"

Dynamic assessment

Which of the following involves a test-train-retest approach

Dynamic assessment

__________ involves directly observing and assessing a child in the many environments in which he or she operates

Ecological assessment

A disability where a child of typical intelligence has difficulty, over time and to a marked degree, building satisfactory interpersonal relationships; responds inappropriately behaviorally or emotionally under normal circumstances; demonstrates a pervasive mood of unhappiness; or has a tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears is called:

Emotional disturbance

The assessment of a child's academic, intellectual, psychological, emotional, perceptual, language, cognitive, and medical development in order to determine areas of strength and weakness is called: a. Collection

Evaluation

A ________ expresses how often a score occurs in a set of data.

Frequency distribution

The ______ the spread, the _______ the variance

Greater/greater

The _______ is greatly affected by extreme scores.

Mean

A ________ scale is one in which equal differences in scores represent equal differences in amount of the property measured but with an arbitrary zero point.

Interval

A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, which may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations is called:

Learning Disability

The 14th amendment of the United States is called

The equal protection clause

Prior to 1975 in the United States, discrimination against those with disabilities was prevalent in schools. The type of discrimination most evident was:

The exclusion of students with disabilities altogether from school

An acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functioning disability or psychosocial impairment or both is called:

Traumatic Brain Injury

T/F? Assessment in special education is a process that involves collecting information about a student for the purpose of making decisions

True

Brown v. Board of Education:

a. Set the precedent for future discrimination cases in education.. b. Helped students with disabilities in the future claim that their segregation and exclusion from school violated their opportunity for an equal education under the 14th amendment of the US constitution c. Both a and b