A majority of students receiving special education services in public schools have...
Detailed and frequent assessment of students' progress, made to determine if student learning is accelerating and the gap between the student's functioning and that considered typical is becoming smaller, is
A student whose behavior is characterized in part by a lack of appropriate social responsiveness from a very early age is likely to be diagnosed with
Because of the unique learning, especially in the domain of communication, these students are likely to receive special education services beginning at birth.
Least restrictive environment is a student's right to be educated in the environment
That bests supports his/her special physical, emotional, cognitive needs
In the first half of the 20th century, a student with a relatively mild learning disability was most likely to receive instruction...
In a general education classroom
One of the outcomes of the civil rights movement of 1960's directly led to the passage of...
Section 504 of Vocational Rehabilitation Act
Students who have difficulty in social interactions and communication are referred to as having...
The category is only used when a student's disabilities are so serious and interrelated that none can be identified as the as a primary disability.
When students display problematic behavior, professionals implement increasingly intensive interventions to try to clearly identify the reason for the behavior and to help students to learn alternative behaviors that are acceptable in a school setting, an approach termed...
Positive behaviors supports
When a student has extraordinary difficulties communicating for reasons other than maturation, they are typically diagnosed with ...
Speech or language impairments
When schools refer to students with disabilities they mean students who...
receive special education services according to federal/state guidelines
What category protected under IDEA includes students with characteristics that may include short term memory loss, developmental delays, and vision loss, and needs that may change over time
Which of the following introduced the concept of integration into public education
Brown v. Board of Education
Which of the following is a high incidence disability
Which of the following is true about mainstreaming
students should be placed in general education setting only when they meet traditional academic expectations with minimal assistance
Which of the following students receive services under IDEA
Children who exhibit significant developmental delays
Which of the following legal cases was crucial in establishing principles of inclusive practices
Oberti v. Board of Education of Clementon School District
Which of the following is a provision of section 504 of Vocational Rehabilitation Act
Some students not eligible for special education services may be entitled to receive specific types of of assistance to be academically successful
What of the following is true about evidence-based practice
All interventions, strategies, techniques, policies, and programs should be grounded in research with demonstrated effectiveness
All means to enable students to succeed in general education setting is/are...
Supplementary aids and services
Behavioral intervention plans are required in thew IEP of...
All students with significant behavior problems
IDEA requires the procedure to ensure that student progress is monitored
The IEP will be reviewed annually and reevaluated every three years
Often assist in the delivery of special services for many students
In describing the extent of the student's participation in general education, the IEP must include all of the following EXCEPT...
A justification for placement in a general education classroom
Mr. Lester has been told by his building principal that he will have three students in his class this semester who have behavioral problems and two who have learning disabilities. Mr. Lester is expected to...
participate in determining appropriate goals included in the IEP for students with disabilities.
The specialist who focuses on developing a student's fine motor skills
The specialist most likely to help a student with special needs develop vocabulary, pronounce words or combine words into sentences
Speech/language therapist
The special education teacher that typically helps students prepare for employment or postsecondary education is the...
The set of procedures outlined in the law for resolving disagreements between school district personnel and parents regarding students with disabilities is...
The person who typically has the most detailed, day to day knowledge of student's academic, social, and physical needs within the classroom...
General education teacher
The person who is responsible for managing and coordinating the services a student receives is the...
Special Education teacher
The estimate of what a multidisciplinary team believes that the student should be able to accomplish within a year is outlined in the ..... component of the IEP
The component of IEP that clarifies how to measure student progress toward achieving goals is the ...
Throughout the assessment process, it is critical that school personnel...
Have adequate training to administer and evaluate the tools that are used
Tiffany's IEP indicates the use of assistive technology listed under supplementary aids and services. Her teacher is expected to...
Provide the opportunity for the use of assistive technology in her class as indicated in the IEP
The role of school nurse in educating a student with disabilities is often to...
Assist in interpreting information from physicians and other medical personnel
Transition plans are written into IEP's to ensure students are prepared for...
When the multidisciplinary team makes placement decisions, they must...
provide justification for placement decisions outside the general education classroom
Which of the following is true about observing behavior to analyze unmet needs...
behavior that is markedly different from that of others warrants further investigation
After a parent-teacher conference, it is important for teachers to complete each of the following EXCEPT...
Schedule a meeting with your principal
Because of the nature of the teacher-paraprofessional partnership, collaboration...
may sometimes occur in shared problem solving
Collaboration is best described as a group of people...
Working in a team that feel their contributions are valid
Compared to a professional requesting help, the consultant should always be
more knowledgeable about the area of concern
During initial parent-teacher conference, the teacher should focus on the goal of...
establishing a two way exchange of information with the parent
In order for co teaching to be most effective, teachers must...
Let the curriculum guide the choice of approach
In consultation, teachers seek the help of another professional with specific expertise so that the professional is able to...
Assist the teacher needing the benefit of their expertise
In understanding a parent's perspective on their child disabilities, a teachers experience can prepare him/her
to listen to the parent's discussion of the child's strength
In order for collaborative effects to work effectively, members of an collaborative team must...
Develop tolerance of other member's beliefs
One example of work environment that supports collaboration is...
arranged shared planning time
One fundamental problem teachers face in their working relationships with paraprofessionals is that
teachers often lack experience supervising others
Planning specifics with engaged in shared problem solving requires collaborative team participants to do all of the following EXCEPT...
Brainstorm possible solutions to the problem
Positive ongoing collaboration between a teacher and paraprofessional is dependent upon
Success of teams ultimately depends upon the...
Commitment of its members
The co-teaching approach in which two teachers take turns, with one leading the lesson and the other gathering data to improve institutional decisions is called...
the co-teaching method that increases the student's opportunity for participation in responses to teacher questions is...
The most critical step of the shared problem solving process is...
The step of the shared problem solving process in which the collaborative team considers whether an idea is feasible and will resolve the problem is
to be an effective member of a collaborative team, a teacher must have excellent communication skills, which includes all of the following except...
To view a situation from another person's perspective is...
A method for measuring the level of achievement of student's in terms of what they are taught in the classroom is...
curriculum based assessment
Accurate assessment of diverse students can be difficult because...
They may lack exposure to test content
Curriculum based assessment measures student's level of achievement related to...
what is taught in the classroom
Darrell's scores on his group's administered standardized achievement test indicate he is two years below his grade level in reading. However Darrell's teacher is having difficulty using the achievement test data to help Darrell learn because the test contains too few items to determine Darrell's area of difficulty....
the results of standardized tests provide little data to guide instruction
Decisions in instructional evaluation involve
whether to continue or change instructional procedures
Decisions that involve the initial instructional level of student's are...
Jacob wants to take calculus during his sophomore high school year. His guidance counselor looks at the math courses Jacob has completed to see if he has the necessary academic background. Jacob's guidance counselor understands that in order for Jacob to be successful in calculus...
He must have the necessary prerequisite skills
How quickly a student is able to perform a skill or recall academic material is called a student...
Mr. Boggs reads aloud the spelling words for his fourth-grade class and his students spell out the words on their papers. This is an example of...
Ms. Littlefield is wondering if her 3rd grade student, Laura, meets established federal guidelines for being classified as having a disability and if so what the nature and extent. This questions closely concerns....
Scottie's IEP has decided that his special education will take place full time in a general education classroom. The decision mainly only concerns Scottie's...
Probes of basic academic skills...
consist of timed samples of academic behaviors
The average score on most psychological tests is...
Teachers should assess student accuracy and rate on basic academic skills because...
Students who are proficient in a basic skill are better able to master advanced skills
Charmaine's teacher sampled her reading passage at fifth-grade level and found that she read at a correct level of 43 words per minute with no errors.What is Charmaine's teacher most likely to conclude based on this information
Charmaine has a problem with reading rate
Many students with disabilities are able to participate in district & statewide assessments when provided with appropriate accommodations. However some students are not required to meet the same standards and are allowed to use ... to provide evidence that they meet the same broad standards as other students
The peer comparison method screening thought probes uses the ... to summarize the score because it affected less by extreme scores
The assessment determines whether a particular students performance is different enough from peers to require further, more in depth assessments.....
Which of the following is true regarding group administered standardized and high stakes achievement tests
Group administered and high stakes are often used in making administrative decisions at the school district level
Two common methods of assessment used in making educational decisions for students with special needs are....
standardized and high stakes
"Instructional methods" includes which of the following
ways in which teachers present content
Classroom climate is influenced by this component...
the teacher's positive attitude toward individual differences
Direct instruction involves...
Effective classroom rules...
should be accommodate all student's cultures.
Effectively using classroom time includes ...
meaningful engagement in academic activities
Equipment used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of child with a disability is...
Immediate feedback on practice items is important so that students
can make meaningful corrections of their work
In order to support student comprehension, textbook content should be
organized with meaningful hearings and subheadings
Manipulatives and models can benefit students with special needs in each of the following ways EXCEPT...
Focusing their attention throughout lessons
In order for independent student practice rate to be more effective in promoting student growth & achievement, most students need to complete practice items at an accuracy rate of...
The highest level of thought in Bloom's taxonomy...
When using manipulatives to enhance student learning, it is important to remember that...
Students should be encouraged to verbalize their use of manipulatives to clarify their conceptual understanding.
When assigned independent student practice, students are most likely to be successful if they...
Have a desire to learn what they are practicing
The type of grouping that provides students with the special needs a range of positive models for academic and social behavior
The primary purpose of student evaluation is to...
Determine the level of student mastery
Which guideline for selecting manipulative and models helps students who that may have trouble with transference from one concept to another
use a range of manipulative materials
Which type of grouping works best when some, but not all students have trouble mastering a skill
Which of the following represents an accommodation within the physical organization of a classroom to improve the instructional environment
the teacher arranges a work or reading area with soft light instead of fluorescent
Which of the following is a guideline for selecting effective textbooks
support is provided for student comprehension
Which of the following is an aspect of classroom management
Accommodations for individuals with multiple disabilities differ from individuals with intellectual disabilities in....
Accommodations for individuals with "orthopedic impairments" take into consideration each of the following EXCEPT the ...
Autism spectrum disorder...
can exist in many forms, mild to severe
Children with autism spectrum disorder often...
find making and maintaining eye contact difficult
Each of the following falls into federal disability category of "other health impairments" EXCEPT...
Children with ...comprise the largest group of chronically ill students in the United States
In addition to significant difficulty with adaptive behaviors, students with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities generally have IQ scores of
Interactions of individuals with autism spectrum disorder are characterized by...
significant disability with social relationships
Most students with multiple disabilities have an
intellectual disability and physical impairment or sensory impairment
Noticeable characteristics of students with moderate or severe intellectual disabilities include difficulty with all of the following EXCEPT...
learning basic skills of semi-independent living
Students with autism spectrum disorder are likely to need...
Opportunities during the day to work and be alone
Students with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities often are...
Dependent upon ongoing support throughout and beyond their school years
Students with traumatic brain injury typically...
experience social difficulties
Teachers may need to modify their teaching to accommodate the student with visual impairment by...
Reciting what is written on boards and overheads
Teachers need to remember that students with hearing loss who use amplification devices
may be distracted by amplified background noise
Teachers should use classmates to assist with individuals with moderate and severe intellectual disabilities in all the following ways EXCEPT...
monitoring physiological needs
The IDEA category "other health impairments" includes...
The largest group of students orthopedic impairments in public schools is...
While trying to modify the learning environment to support the needs of students with hearing loss, teachers should...
support instruction with visual aids
When accommodating students with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities, teachers should remember to...
establish collaborative efforts with student's family