SPED 2nd half

Which individual achievement test would you select to assess a student's spoken language skills?

DAB-4

A formal test designed to provide an in-depth assessment of computational skills is the

DTAS

The measure that uses error analysis procedures to detect slips and mistakes in setting up the problem is

DTAS

Which of the following assessments obtain parents' opinions on the skills of their child in communication, daily living, socialization, and motor skills?

Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales

On which measure are most test tasks timed?

WRAT4

The achievement test that looks most like typical classroom tasks is the

WRAT4

Which measure assesses spelling with a dictation test?

WRAT4

An example of a norm-referenced formal reading test is

Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests-III

The test containing 20 subtests grouped into a standard battery and a supplementary battery is the

Woodcock-Johnson IV

Which individual test is the most comprehensive achievement measure?

Woodcock-Johnson IV

Which individual achievement tests assess composition skills?

Woodcock-Johnson IV and WIAT II

In reading assessment, it is important to consider

decoding and comprehension silent and oral reading decoding and comprehension ability to use reading in everyday situations

In some ways, the distinction between computation and problem solving in mathematics is analogous to that between

decoding and comprehension in reading

IRIs are all of the following except

designed to assess comprehension skills only

When students who speak languages other than English are referred for special education assessment, the first step is to

determine if one language is clearly dominant

During a Transdisciplinary Play-Based Assessment, the child participates in

unstructured motor play structured motor play a snack

Informal inventories of mathematics

evaluate a particular skill with one or two items

Which KeyMath-III Total Test score indicates high average performance?

125

Which of the following statements is false?

paucity in both languages indicates a language disorder

Which of the following scores is most likely to indicate a problem area in mathematics?

A Total Math Quotient of 72 on the TOMA-3

What part of the DTAS asks the student to listen to a computation problem, write it down, but not solve it?

None of the above

The assessment instrument in which spelling skills are evaluated by a multiple-choice test is the

PIAT-R/NU

On which Woodcock-Johnson IV subtest are students asked to detect and correct errors?

Proofing

Which diagnostic probe should be used to determine if a student is having difficulty decoding words in a story problem?

Read the problem aloud to the student and see if he or she then solves the problem correctly

Which statement about the KeyMath-III is incorrect?

Reading and writing skills are required.

The following is not a measure of language proficiency

School Assessment Scales-2

This aspect of language is concerned with the meanings of words.

Semantics

Which aspect of language is not concerned with language form?

Semantics

Composition is a process that involves a series of steps. The steps are

planning, transcribing, revising

Which of the following statements regarding academic achievement tests is not true?

Academic achievement tests alone determine the student's placement.

Which of the following involves parents completing developmental surveys as their child grows from the ages of 4 to 54 months?

Ages and Stages Questionnaires

Which statement about the WRMT-III is incorrect?

All subtests must be administered

An instrument that assesses for impairments in the areas of social interactions and communication and stereotyped patterns of behavior is the

Autism Screening Instrument for Educational Planning

All of the following are screening devices for early childhood except

Bayley Scales of Infant Development III

Which of the following assessments require administration by a psychologist who receives special training?

Bayley Scales of Infant Development-III

Traditional reading assessment measures are product-oriented and based upon which approach to reading?

Bottom-up

Which of the following assessments measure pre-speech gestures as part of the speech and language skills area?

Brigance® Diagnostic Inventory of Early Development-II

What assessment strategy would you use to study the interaction between the reader and the text he or she is reading?

Clinical reading interview

Important to a team approach in assessment is

Collaboration

If an assessment team found that a student showed adequate achievement in basic school skills, what would be the next step in assessment?

Consultation with the referring teacher about possible classroom modifications

Which statement is false?

High frequency word lists such as the Dolch Basic Sight Word List are used to assess students' skills in reading content subject textbooks.

Which of the following statements is incorrect?

If a student qualifies for special education services, that student is no longer eligible for bilingual education or ESL services

A student asked to add 12 + 7 gives 5 as the answer. What type of error has been made?

Incorrect operation

For what do the letters IFSP stand?

Individualized Family Service Plan

When a student is referred for special education assessment, what is the first question the assessment team asks?

Is there a school performance problem?

All of the following are benefits of ecological assessment except

It is useful for determining eligibility for special services.

Which statement about the WRAT4 is false?

It only offers both age norms.

Which is a formal measure of pragmatic competence?

Let's Talk Inventory for Children

Which mathematics skills are used most in daily life?

Money, time, and measurement

If a student's primary disability is a language disorder, what professional is most likely to provide special education service?

Speech-language pathologist

Which statement is true?

Students read isolated words aloud on the WRAT4. On the PIAT-R/NU, students select the correctly spelled word from four choices. Students can use paper and pencil on most Woodcock-Johnson IV math subtests.

Which measure is a norm-referenced test that evaluates attitude toward mathematics, math vocabulary, computation, and story problems?

TOMA-3

Formal training in assessment and/or psychometric training is required to administer and score this assessment

TOMA-3 KeyMath-III TOMA-3 CMAT

Which measure assesses knowledge of vocabulary in specific content areas?

TORC-4

Which measure would you select to determine a student's Reading Comprehension Quotient?

TORC-4

Which measure would you select to determine if a student's reading comprehension skills were within the average range for his or her grade?

TORC-4

Which feature does the KeyMath-III, the SDMT-4, and the TOMA-3 have in common?

They are standardized tests.

What is the major purpose for assessing reading skills in special education assessment?

To determine whether a student shows poor performance in reading in relation to grade peers.

Scales that measure specialized child care availability, financial and medical situations, meal preparation, and family and friend support systems are assessing

a family's needs a family's strengths a family's resources

The assessment of receptive language involves determining the student's

ability to understand language

The TOAL-4 is not

appropriate for primary grade students

Traditional mathematics measures tend to focus on all of the following except

attitude toward mathematics

Current school reform efforts include all but the following

back-to-basics movement

When a student learns English as a second language, the aspect of language that is most quickly learned is

basic interpersonal communication skills

The most commonly accepted approach to the education of students who speak a dialect is

bidialectalism

When testing accommodations are used, the one used least often is

changes in response modes

When conducting an error analysis of a student's oral reading, the assessor indicates an omission by

circling the word on the assessor's copy of the text

The teacher asks the student to compute problems and then verbalize how he/she completed each problem. The teacher is using the informal assessment procedure called

clinical interview

The five developmental areas typically assesses for possible delays in young children are

cognitive development, social-emotional development, communication development, physical development, and adaptive development

Language proficiency involves

cognitive/academic language skills basic interpersonal communication skills cognitive/academic language skills receptive and expressive language skills

The Woodcock Johnson IV

collected data on a new norm sample

Assessments that include items listed in hierarchies or sequences and provide objectives to address the domains assessed are

curriculum-compatible assessments

A criterion-referenced test of reading skills can be used to

help develop an IEP assess mastery of specific skills evaluate curriculum effectiveness help develop an IEP

The Woodcock Language Proficiency Battery-Revised and the TOAL-4 both assess

paucity in both languages indicates a language disorder

The Mental Computation subtest of the KeyMath-III differs from other subtests on that test because

items may not be repeated

Thinking, comprehension, and the formation of social relations is greatly affected by

language skills

Teachers can devise criterion-referenced tests of spelling skills using

lists of spelling demons high frequency word lists lists of spelling demons words from the spelling basal used in the classroom

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics recommends that authentic problem solving activities be provided to

middle school aged students elementary aged students middle school aged students high school aged students

The written language of mathematics is composed of

numerals and symbols

If a student earns a grade 4 instructional level on an IRI, that level relates to the student's

oral reading ability

The study of the use of language in various communication settings and contexts is

pragmatics

Mathematics includes arithmetic computation as well as

problem solving geometry and measurement reading and interpreting tables, charts, and graphs

The purpose of language assessment for bilingual learners is to determine the extent of their

proficiency in both languages

An alternate method of error analysis that takes into account the nature of the errors the reader makes is called

qualitative analysis

The GORT-5 assesses students' ability to

read aloud and answer comprehension questions orally

Holistic evaluation of writing samples

requires that the teacher read the student's work quickly to obtain a general impression of its quality

In assessing a student who speaks a dialect, the best course of action for a tester to take is

score the test twice, once in a standard fashion and once giving credit if answers are correct in the student's dialect

Sensitivity of an instrument refers to its use of

sequential and graduated measures of small increments of progress

The basal on the WRMT-III is established by

six consecutive correct responses beginning with the first item on the page

Criterion-referenced tests provide

skill mastery information

The act of writing differs from speech because

speech is a social act and writing is solitary

When evaluating a classroom program for teaching written language skills, it is important that

students be exposed to a broad range of writing tasks.

If the assessment team desires to know how the student uses his/her skills in the home of community environment, the best person(s) to provide this is

the parent

Error analysis in writing is most valuable for identifying all of the following areas of need except

vocabulary

Identify the phonetic spelling error

writing "kat" instead of "cat"