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"
