SPED EC-12 161 Part 2
IEP goals are written with the intent to be reached within:
1 school year
Sandy recently took a test and the chronological age was calculated to be 10 years, 11 months, and 23 days. Which of the following represents the correct rounded chronological age?
10-12
IDEA requires that IEP Team must include transition planning, in the form of an individualized transition plan (ITP), in the first IEP that will be in effect when the child turns what age:
16
The 100 MOST frequently misspelled words, often referred to as spelling demons, comprise what percent of all words used in early writing:
60%
On most standardized tests, the range of average according to standard scores is
90-110
Consider an A-B design. Which of the statements below is MOST true?
Correlational statements may be made about relationships
Mr. Shostak uses math journal writing as method of closely monitoring his students' progress. He encourages his students to use math journaling to:
Improve their self-evaluation skills Take notes, write examples, create visuals and other metacognitive cues Record useful strategies
Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement about math error analysis?
It is meant to determine why the student is making the error
Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement about math error analysis?
It will always identify a serious or consistent patterns of errors
Which of the following is NOT an example of adaptive behavior?
Learning to type on the computer
Major issues concering LRE include
Mainstreaming and inclusion Placement in private schools and religious schools Parental reimbursement for private school placement
What is a multiple baseline design?
Measures MORE than one subject, behavior or setting
When a student with a disability and peers without disabilities participate together in a shared activity (e.g., science lab experiment) and each student has individuality appropriate learning outcomes at different levels within the same curriculum area, it is known as:
Multi-level Curriculum/Instruction
According to the classification system of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, people with intellectual disabilities are classified based on:
Multiple dimensions (e.g., intellectual abilities, adaptive behavior, health, participation, context) as well as an individual's patterns and intensity of supports needs
Which of the following is NOT a guideline for determining how much data should be collected on student's performance
New programs warrant less frequent data collection
A test designed to yield average performance scores, which may be used for comparing individual student performances
Norm-referenced test
Which of the following is a problem with using the developmental approach with students with severe disabilities?
Often leads to objectives that are not age appropriate 2. Test items are not adapted for students with physical disabilities 2. The sequence of behavior typical for children without disabilities may not be relevant for students with severe disabilities
Which is NOT an element of emergent literacy?
Oral Language
The fourth grade teacher has tried to determine why Helen is unable to solve certain type of math problems. The teacher decides to use a technique that will help her gain insight by having Helen verbally explain the math problem and identify the processes she uses to solve the problem. This is a technique known as a(n):
Oral Math Interview
Monica is unable to recall the spelling pattern in a word, she has difficulty representing the unique array of letters define a printed word. She seems to have a problem with:
Orthographic Memory
Which of the following expresses the difficulty with using percentile ranks to interpret test results?
Percentile ranks do NOT represent equal intervals
A broken vertical line on a graph is used to show
Phase changes
When you ask a child what sound the word "rock" starts with, what are you trying to assess?
Phoneme Isolation
Ms. O'Brien's new student, Benny has good sight vocabulary and decoding skills; however, she needs an informal reading test to assess his ability to comprehend what he reads. You inform her that ALL of the tests below are used to assess comprehension, with the exception of:
Phonemic awareness procedure
The components of the writing process consist of:
Preplanning, writing, revising/editing, proofreading, publishing
Juan is using the writing process but has difficultly identifying a purpose, audience and topic when required to write. Which step in the writing process is he having difficulty with?
Prewriting
Which of the following is one of the endorsed assessment and instruction processes of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics?
Promoting active involvement in learning Developing cooperative learning experiences Increasing opportunities for self-evaluation
The anchor paper scoring method
Provides qualitative indices across specific dimensions of students' work
LRE refers to
Public agencies providing a continuum of alternative placements Educational placements that are based on the child's educational needs Placing students with disabilities in general education classrooms
The number of items a student scores correctly on a test is referred to as
Raw Score
An interest inventory could be used to gain information about the student's:
Reading habits and motivation
Which is the correct order of service for a student through the SPED process?
Referral to the MDT, parent consent, eligibility testing, classification conference
An error analysis revealed that Shanice consistently fails to carry digits into the correct number column. This type of error is due to:
Regrouping mistakes
Students with learning problems who have culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds tend to experience difficulty with mathematics, specifically with regard to
Semantics, Linguistics, Symbols
________ focuses on the acceptability of the educational goals, the appropriateness of the procedures influence behavior, and the social importance of the behavior change
Social Validity
Mrs. James notes that many of the errors on Fernando 's written equation calculation assignments are the result of his tendency to write numbers backwards, upside down and often transposed (e.g., 72 for 27). These difficulties are due to:
Spatial disorganization
When assessing students' skills on performance based assessment using a scoring rubric, each task is assigned a score that is referred to as a(n):
Specific Performance Criteria
Alternate assessment tests should align with:
State academic content standards
Phonetic misspellings occur when:
Students attempt to use phonetic rules to spell a word but apply the rules incorrectly The word does NOT adhere to phonetic rules
A Likert Scale is used to rank each behavior according to the frequency of occurrence rather than the quality of performance
TRUE
Although a standardized group test can be individually administered, a standardized individual test cannot be administered to a whole group at one time
TRUE
Ceilings are thought to represent the level at which MORE difficult questions would NOT be passed.
TRUE
Checklists can serve as both an assessment and a recording system
TRUE
Replication of an A-B-A-B study in a different setting with different students increase external validity?
TRUE
The primary benefit of self-assessment is that it requires students to analyze and reflect on their own learning
TRUE
Two-thirds of the students diagnosed with a speech or language disorder are boys
TRUE
Data gathered during progress monitoring is...,
Used to determine how and when to change intervention type and/or intensity
Which of the following skills are generally included in pragmatic skill assessment:
Using Figurative Language Following basic directions
Which statement about Section 504 is NOT accurate?
it mandates that reasonable accommodations must be provided only within the general education classroom
Juan's poor reading comprehension skills are primarily characteristics of learning disabilities in ALL but which of
His poor visual acuity
Kate is a student with a serious learning disability. She will require accommodations to participate in the standardized testing procedures. Which of the factors must be considered when writing her IEP to include appropriate accommodations?
Her current level of functioning
Juan's poor reading comprehension skills are primarily characteristics of learning disabilities in ALL but which of the following ways
His poor language skills
Which of the following is NOT a Basic Interpersonal Communication (BIC) skill command?
Compare a democracy and dicatorship
When teachers are selecting the type of test they will use, they need to consider whether the objective of the test is to:
Compare one student's progress to the progress of other students Determine the student's proficiency or mastery of specific content Evaluate the student's progress over time
What is the main difference between a multiple baseline and multiple probe design?
A multiple baseline requires continous measurement of ALL pre-intervention target behaviors whereas a multiple probe requires pre-intervention data to be collected ONLY intermittently
According to the IDEA, the first placement option considered for each child with a disability is:
A regular classroom in the school that the child would attend if NOT disabled, with appropriate supplementary aids and services to facilitate such placement
Which of the following skills are generally included in pragmatic skill assessment
Adapting language based on the need or expectation of the listener or situation
During which of the following phases should the examiner take special care to follow test instructions?
All of the above
When assessing student's skill on performance based assessment using a scoring rubric, each task is assigned a score that is referred to as a(n):
Analytic Scoring Chart
This year Tamika's standardized test results indicate her stanine score to be a 6. Last year, on the same test, she received a stanine score of 3, This indicates that her performance
Has improved
Which of the following assessment guidelines can be used to increase the social validity of the assessment and its application to inclusive settings (mark all that apply):
Assessment should be conducted by in settings and within contexts that are natural as possible
If an examinee asks the examiner if he or she answered an item correctly on a standardized test, the examiner should do which of the following?
Assure the student they are doing well and ask the next question
In order to objectively determine if student is progressing on a particular objective, we must first known what the student's skills were prior to our intervention. This period of time, or phase, is referred to as:
Baseline
The team that develops the individualized family service plan for the child must provide for preschool transition services:
Before age 3
What is the earliest age a child may benefit from IDEA?
Birth
A quick and effective way to measure and monitor skill progress in accuracy and fluency based on material directly from the student's curriculum is referred to as
CBM Math Probe
Consider an A-B-A design. What can be said of this design?
Cause-effect relationships can determined If the change of data occurs immediately after return to baseline, then one can reasonably conclude the intervention was effective An A-B-A-B design is STRONGER than this design
Jose's spelling is evaluated by a form of spelling assessment in which he is required to fill in the missing letter in a word in a sentence. This is referred to as a:
Cloze technique
Siblings generally have the following reactions to the disability of their brother or sister
Combined positive and negative
Jose will be graduating from high school next year. He has a moderate learning and a mild physical disability. He plans to live semi-independently in an apartment. As a pre-transition meeting assessment, his teacher administers a comprehensive life math skills assessment which should include which of the following survival skills:
Community living/home care skills Health care skills Transportation skills
Which of the following is known as the experimental version of a new test
Developmental Test
The evaluation technique that uses a test-teach-test model and is based on Vygotsky's view of learning process is
Dynamic assessment
Standardized test administration requires the use of basal and ceiling levels in order to:
Ensure that the student's range of skills is covered
A maze procedures is a modified version of the cloze procedure with the addition of word choices
FALSE
An examiner should tell a student if they are getting the answers correct after each test is administered
FALSE
Analytic scoring is considered to be a less time consuming system and, therefore, is often used when large numbers of portfolios need to be scored
FALSE
Factors such as socioeconomic status, race, culture, linguistic background, emotional state and existing disabilities are variables that do NOT impact student performances on a norm-referenced assessment because these variables have been filtered out during norming process.
FALSE
IDEA specified that school districts may use up to 35% of their special education funds to support EIS
FALSE
The IDEA definition of parent, and their rights, include the natural or adoptive parent but, for special education issues, does not include a court appointed surrogate
FALSE
There are many standardized tests in languages other than English
FALSE
When calculating the raw score, ALL items that appear before the established basal are NOT counted because they were not administered.
FALSE
The process used to identify the antecedent and consequent events that occasion and maintain problem behavior
FBA Functional Behavior Assessment
Portfolios are scored with a point system using holistic' or analytic scoring and therefore can NOT be converted to the more traditional A,B,C,D,F letter grade system
False
Consider an A-B design. What can be said about its internal and external validity?
Findings CANNOT be said to be internally or externally valid
Probes are timed samples of student work designed to measure the following skills:
Fluency and Accuracy
All but which of the following can be used to analyze tasks:
Frequency- how often the task is chosen by the student
Rating scale do NOT
Give feedback on how to improve strengths and weaknesses
Which of the following statements is NOT an advantage of assessing students in the natural environment?
The teacher can safely put the student in danger
The factor(s) likely to indicate that the language problem experienced by ELL students are NOT related to a language disorder include:
Their native or first language skills are less developed than same age peers Their language proficiency has developed at a slower rate than peers who have been learning English for the same amount of time The rate of learning the English is comparable to young English-speaking children
Reasons why group standardized testing may be difficult for student with disabilities include ALL but which of the following
They provide opportunities for asking clarifying questions during testing
Consider an A-B design. Which statements are true?
This design can demonstrate experimental control This is referred to as the reversal design
Consider an A-B-A-B design. Which statements are true?
This design can demonstrate experimental control This is referred to as the reverse design
What can be said about the internal validity of a multiple baseline design?
This design helps control threats due to maturation This design helps control threats due to testing This design helps control threats due to history These graphs are often conceptualized as "stacked" A-B designs
Local Education Agencies (LEAs) and State Education Agencies (SEAs) use group standardized tests for ALL but which of the following purposes:
To determine whether students are eligible for classification
The main purpose for using a scoring chart are ALL but which of the following?
To make decisions about teaching strategies
When assessing the content of language , also referred to as semantics, the teacher focuses on:
Vocabulary use and the relationship among ideas
When might it be MOST appropriate to use a B-A-B deign?
When a student present with self injurious behavior
