SPED 430 Test 3
Michael receives additional support for noncompliant behavior. Prior to intervention his average number of incidents of noncompliant behavior was 18. Following the intervention, the number had decreased to 11. What is the percent change following intervention?
39%
Utilizing the percent of nonoverlapping data points as a measurement of progress, which of the following is considered the range for an effective intervention?
70%-90%
General education instruction is designed to meet the needs of approximately what percentage of the school population?
80-85%
Direct observation enables the observer to note how often a behavior occurs and to establish which of the following?
A baseline
Which of the following is designed to increase positive behaviors and decrease negative behaviors?
A behavioral intervention plan
Which of the following is an assessment that utilizes multiple components to determine the specific purpose of targeted behaviors?
A functional behavioral assessment
Which of the following must be conducted to determine if misbehaviors are related to a child's disability?
A manifestation determination
Which of the following is a graphic representation of the social dynamics of a classroom?
A sociogram
Which of the following measurement methods compares a baseline performance with performance at the end of an intervention period?
Absolute change
These tests are designed specifically to measure what the student has learned.
Achievement Test
These tests measure how well students adapt to different environments.
Adaptive behavior scales
This following is an individually administered achievement battery.
All of the Above
Who might deliver and monitor Tier II interventions in the RTI model?
All of the above
Which of the following methods of data collection would be most useful in determining an antecedent event?
Anecdotal recording
An event that occurs prior to the target behavior that increases the likelihood of the target behavior occurring is known as which of the following?
Antecedent
This is used to determine current areas of strength as well as future potential.
Aptitude Test
The most important step for teachers learning new diagnostic instruments is which of the following?
Becoming familiar with the test manual and test
Which of the following is not a projective assessment?
Behavior rating profile test
This principle is founded in the theory that behaviors are maintained or increased by the reinforcing events that follow the event or behavior.
Behavioristic principle
This principle is founded in the threory that behaviors are maintained or increased by the reinforcing events that follow the event or behavior.
Behavioristic principle
Billy is a third-grade student who is receiving services at the Tier III level of the RTI model. He has reached the criterion score of 85% for four consecutive weeks on his math progress monitoring probes. What should happen next?
Billy moves to Tier II and continues to receive less intense services.
Lists of academic or behavioral skills that the respondent completes by checking the appropriate responses.
Checklist
Which of the following progress monitoring tools is not commercially available and provided with norm-referenced data?
Curriculum-based assessments
A score or number that the student must reach in order for the determination to be made that progress is occurring as a result of intervention.
Cut off point
These tests are used to measure a specific ability, for example, fine-motor ability.
Diagnostic test
When teachers adapt or modify the content of the curriculum, the instructional methods they use, or the assessment used with a student, it is called which of the following?
Differentiated instruction
This process was used to identify students with disabilities by comparing a student's cognitive ability with his or her academic achievement to determine if a significant difference between the two exists.
Discrepancy analysis
Judy, a young preschooler, has temper tantrums. With interventions, the tantrums continue but do not seem to be as intense or as long. In order to determine if Judy's tantrums are truly decreasing in length, the teacher should use which of the following?
Duration recording
The school guidance counselor comes into your room to observe a student, Susan. The counselor notices that Susan spent 15 minutes of the 43-minute class time walking around the room. The counselor obtained these data by performing what type of method?
Duration recording
These events make a consequence more attractive.
Establishing operations
Mrs. Tilger notices that Michael is very often getting out of his seat to wander around the room. What data recording method should she use to determine how many times Michael gets out of his seat?
Event recording
What term defines utilizing language skills in speaking or writing?
Expressive language
Academic engaged time is a technical term that simply means how long a student is required to be in class during the school day.
False
All students who do not respond to Tier III interventions in the RTI model automatically receive special education services.
False
Aptitude tests are designed specifically to measure what a student has learned.
False
Checklists, questionnaires, and parent interviews are techniques that require assessment personnel to conduct direct observation of student behavior.
False
Commercially available progress monitoring programs always include everything you might need for assessing students in order to ensure progress in the general education curriculum.
False
Composite scores are the scores that are used to compare a student against grade or age norms.
False
Drawing tests assess a student's feelings about what they perceive is happening in a picture.
False
In order to determine a student's level of academic functioning, one of the following tests might be used: achievement, aptitude, diagnostic, cognitive, or adaptive behavior.
False
Norm-referenced tests do not assess for skills related to non-core content areas, like social studies, because the instrument may not match the curriculum to which the student has been exposed.
False
Only a specialist, including the special education teacher, may provide interventions for a student under the Tier II RTI model.
False
Screening tests are appropriate for determining placement and eligibility in special education services.
False
The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-4 is a measure of expressive language.
False
When administering a norm-referenced test, all subtests must be administered.
False
When using visual inspection in order to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention represented in a trend line, progress is indicated only when the trend line is going in an upward direction.
False
On this instrument, the student reads stories aloud to the teacher, who scores rate, accuracy, fluency, comprehension, and overall reading ability.
Gray Oral Reading Test-5
This derived score is used specifically to determine ongoing progress.
Growth scale value
The school psychologist completes an observation of Jean and determines that she engages in an off-task behavior, on average, every six minutes. This is recorded as which of the following?
Interresponse time
Every five minutes during math class, the teacher notes when Helen is on or off task. Helen's behavior is being observed and recorded using which of the following methods?
Interval Recording
What type of observation is conducted when an evaluator orally asks the respondent the questions and encourages objective, detailed information?
Interview
Which of the following tools is aligned to the NCTM standards?
KeyMath Diagnostic Assessment-3
Janet entered the classroom and wandered around the room. Once the teacher redirected Janet to her seat, she sat down and began looking for her materials for class. The teacher began instruction and Janet continued to look through her things. As the teacher continued, Janet looked around the room and waved to her friend. The teacher is concerned with what aspect of Janet's behavior in this case?
Latency
Which of the following is a characteristic of what constitutes a research-based intervention?
Meets requirements set by the Institute of Education Sciences
Which instructional environment are you likely to see at Tier III in the RTI model?
One-on-one
This instrument measures a student's verbal comprehension skills by presenting the student with a series of stimuli and asking the student to discriminate a given stimulus that best represents an orally stated word.
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-4
This measure uses the mean (i.e., average) of the baseline and compares it with the mean of the intervention.
Percent change
This measure considers data points that are above the highest baseline data point as demonstrating intervention effectiveness.
Percent of nonoverlapping data points
Mr. Kiddle believes that each child who is experiencing difficulty in school should be individually evaluated to determine what interventions might address their unique needs. Mr. Kiddle's philosophy is most closely aligned with which RTI model?
Problem-solving model
This test assesses the processes used in initial emerging reading and writing skills as well as other skills needed for the intermediate grades.
Process Assessment of the Learner-II: Test Battery for Reading and Writing
Within the RTI framework, this allows decisions to be made about when a student's current educational program needs to be changed through ongoing data collection.
Progress monitoring
These assessments are used to analyze a student's feelings by what the student projects into the story card or other stimulus.
Projective techniques
This assessment gathers data by encouraging the respondent to describe behaviors or situations where the behavior occurs with objective, narrative statements.
Questionnaire
This assessment method is similar in content to a checklist, but the respondent indicates their response along a continuum allowing for interpretation of extreme behavior.
Rating questionnaire
The following is totaled in order to determine the scaled scores for a given subtest.
Raw Score
What term refers to a student using inner language concepts and applying them to what is heard?
Receptive language
This type of assessment is a brief test containing items that survey a range of skill levels, domains, or content areas. They are typically used to determine weak areas.
Screening test
An event that occurs prior to a target behavior but not in the same environment is known as which of the following?
Setting event
Tier III interventions in the RTI model are typically delivered by what type of school personnel?
Specialists
Mr. Jean, the principal at Mountain Top School, wants to streamline the RTI process in his building. He's requiring all students with similar reading challenges to be grouped together and receive interventions through a commercial curriculum the district has purchased. All students will be progress-monitored using the materials that come with the curriculum. Mr. Jean's philosophy is most closely aligned with which RTI model?
Standard protocol model
Information regarding a student's functional range within an assessment based on the subtest raw scores can be found in which of the following?
Table
Prior to beginning a behavioral observation, which of the following must be determined?
Target behavior
This test assesses overall writing, contrived writing and spontaneous writing.
Test of Written Language-4
The percentile ranking of a student on a standardized diagnostic test indicates which of the following?
The student has been ranked according to the performance of other students in the norm group.
Which of the following is not a requirement under IDEA 2004?
The use of RTI for all students
In determining significant difference between scores, a significant difference at the .05 level indicates which of the following?
There is a 5% chance that the difference is due to error.
Margot is experiencing difficulty with decoding using the general education curriculum so the reading specialist began to provide services for her in a small group in the classroom to provide more intensive practice. At what level of the RTI model is Margot being served?
Tier 2
Linda has difficulty with talking out in class at inappropriate times. In order to determine if this behavior occurs more during a specific time of day, the teacher decides to note each occurrence. Linda's behavior is being observed and recorded using which of the following methods?
Time sampling
Detailed progress monitoring and trend analysis is required of students who are receiving RTI services under Tiers II and III.
True
Expressive language skills are used in speaking and writing.
True
Following the process of differentiated instruction, one of the conceptual foundations that is needed for an RTI classroom, requires teachers to change content, instruction or assessments in order to meet individual student needs.
True
Latency recording measures the amount of time elapsed between the specific stimulus and the actual response.
True
Many assessments have multiple versions (e.g., version A and version B) in order to allow students to be assessed multiple times in a fairly short amount of time.
True
Projective techniques are used to assess the student's feelings when shown various stimuli.
True
Roberts-2, like its predecessor Roberts Apperception Test for Children, is an example of a test that requires students to express their feelings based on a picture card provided.
True
The RTI process provides substantial information to the special education evaluation process in the event a student continues to be unsuccessful in the general education classroom.
True
The Wechsler Individual Achievement Test-III provides two ways of determining disabilities: (1) the traditional ability-achievement discrepancy method, and (2) by evaluating patterns of strengths and weaknesses.
True
The term "universal methods" is often used synonymously with interventions provided at the Tier I level of the RTI model.
True
The use of research-based interventions is required of all teachers, not just special education teachers.
True
When the school has not followed either the IEP or the FBA, the student cannot be suspended.
True
When the total learning environment is analyzed to determine if there are factors that contribute to a specific behavior, it is called ecological assessment.
True
These instructional methods are used in the Tier I RTI model and meet the needs of the majority of students.
Universal methods
This provides information about all students in the general education classroom to determine if any are at risk or are below the level of expected performance for their grade.
Universal screening
Which of the following indicates when diagnostic instruments may be used?
When additional information is needed to make decisions about interventions
Once the raw score has been determined, this is often completed on a separate form allowing the team to determine the educational needs of the student.
Within-item error analysis
This instrument is consistent with Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory of cognitive abilities and comes with extended tests to further test specific skills and abilities.
Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Achievement
IDEA 2004 requires the use of RTI when evaluating every child referred for special education services.
false
Mrs. Morgan is using visual inspection to determine if Mary has made progress on her behavior goals. Mary's goal was to reduce out-of-seat behavior to no more than 2 occurrences each day. Which of the following graphs ideally represents Mary's trend line?
graph declining from left to right
Billy is a third-grade student who is receiving services at the Tier III level of the RTI model. He has reached the criterion score of 85% for four consecutive weeks on his math progress monitoring probes. What should happen next?
starts high ends low (C)
When a child has been sent from the classroom for misbehavior and the child feels a sense of relief, the function of the target behavior is escape.
true
