Assessment in Special Education
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Course Introduction
This course explores the principles, methods, and tools used to assess students with disabilities in educational settings. It emphasizes the importance of both formal and informal assessment techniques to identify students strengths and needs, guide instruction, and inform eligibility decisions for special education services. Students will learn to interpret assessment data, select appropriate assessment instruments, and apply ethical and legal considerations in the assessment process. Special attention is given to collaborative practices with families and multidisciplinary teams, as well as to issues of fairness, cultural responsiveness, and the impact of assessment on educational planning for learners with diverse backgrounds and abilities.
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Educating Exceptional Children 13th Edition by Samuel Kirk
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Chapter 1: Children With Exceptionalities and Their Families
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Q1) Children who have impairments that result in limited strength, vitality, or alertness would be included in which of the following categories?
A)Autism
B)Intellectual impairments
C)Health impairments
D)Language impairments
Answer: C
Q2) Historically, the disabling condition of any student was perceived as A)the result of an interaction between the student and the environment.
B)residing exclusively in the student.
C)residing in the student's environment.
D)dependent on the family of the student.
Answer: B
Q3) Which of the following is not an example of a low-incidence category?
A)Autism
B)Visual impairments
C)Hearing impairments
D)Orthopedic impairments
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Exceptional Children
and Social
Institutions:
Government, Courts, and the Schools
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Q1) To determine whether educators have done what they said they would do for their students is an example of
A)supervisory need.
B)a trend toward accountability.
C)a trend toward standards based curricula.
D)unintended consequences.
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following was a law suit regarding whether a student could receive special education if they were performing academicallybut had other emotional problems.
A)Larry P.v.Riles
B)Frederick L.v.Thomas
C)L.J.v Maine School Administrative District
D)Jose P.v.Ambach
Answer: C
Q3) _________________ consists of technology tools that enhance the functioning of people with special disabilities.
Answer: Assistive technology
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Chapter 3: Early Intervention Supports and Services
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Q1) The Early Childhood Special Education Assistance Act, passed in 1968, was designed to
A)assist in the preservice training of specialists for young children with disabilities.
B)require local school districts to provide services for children between 3 and 5 years of age.
C)set up programs in every state to serve as models of how to work with children with disabilities.
D)fund services provided by local school districts for young children with disabilities.
Answer: C
Q2) The Human Genome Project
A)has identified two thousand genes that may cause Intellectual Disabilities.
B)has found the gene that causes autism.
C)has led the way in understanding the role of genes in human variation and how and why cognitive disabilities occur.
D)only looks at genes that causes disabilities in young children.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Children With Learning Disabilities
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Q1) A technique involving a multidisciplinary team working with parents to design services that address the students' needs.
A)Anticipatory anxiety
B)Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
C)Auditory perception
D)Collaborative problem solving
E)Dysgraphia
F)Dyslexia
G)Evidence-based interventions
H)Episodic memory
I)Heightened sensitivity
Q2) Prevalence figures are suspected of being inaccurate because a.there are difficulties and inconsistencies in definitions from state to state.
b.schools do not submit accurate counts to the state departments.
c.parents do not desire to reveal their child's disability.
d.not all students with learning disabilities are served in special education settings.
Q3) Discuss the term "unexplained underachiever" and how underachievement in general is different from a learning disability.
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Chapter 5: Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Q1) Interventions designed to improve play skills, academic responses, or sociodramatic play.
A)Asperger's syndrome
B)Collateral skills interventions
C)Applied behavior analysis
D)Pervasive developmental disorders not otherwise specified (PDDNOS)
E)Theory of mind
F)Ecological variations
G)Mirror neurons
H)Relationship-focused interventions
Q2) An example of an augmentative or alternative communication device for a child with autism is
A)Picture Exchange Communication System.
B)Discrete Trials.
C)Executive Function.
D)Auditory hypersensitivity.
Q3) ____________________ are attempts to improve play skills, academic responses, or sociodramatic play.
Q4) Discuss the issues and challenges that are faced by many families with children with autism.
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Chapter 6: Children With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
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Q1) The commitment to high standards in the educational reform movement
A)will help students with intellectual and developmental disabilities perform better in school.
B)is problematic for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities because they have difficulty with high-level conceptual material.
C)has caused regional districts to refuse to test students with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
D)does not apply to students with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Q2) Central processing, one of the major components of information processing, is best described as the
A)auditory perception of a stimulus.
B)visual perception of a stimulus.
C)classification of a stimulus through the use of memory, reasoning, and evaluation.
D)choice of a single response from among many possible responses.
Q3) What issues related to functioning in the workplace should be addressed in transition planning for an individual with intellectual and developmental disabilities?
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Chapter 7: Children With Emotional and Behavior Disorders
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Q1) In developing a "student behavior contract" it is important to specify
A)time of behavior.
B)rewards and consequences.
C)why the contract is necessary.
D)antecedent conditions.
Q2) Learned helplessness results in
A)an increase in performance after failure.
B)deterioration of performance after failure.
C)maintenance of performance after failure.
D)heightened feelings of mastery after failure.
Q3) A direct-service special teacher who works in the classroom with the regular teacher to provide support, encouragement, and therapeutic tutoring.
A)Replacement Behaviors
B)School behavior supports
C)Coercive cycle
D)Functional behavioral assessment
E)Support teacher
Q4) ____________________ in children is the belief that nothing they do can stop bad things from happening.This results in severe deterioration in performance after failure.
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Chapter 8: Children With Communication, Language, and Speech Disorders
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Q1) A(n) ____________________ is a variety of language that differs in pronunciation, vocabulary, or syntax from the literary form of the language.
Q2) There is a strong relationship between phonological errors and A)visual acuity.
B)comprehension.
C)dyscalculia.
D)reading problems.
Q3) Stuttering is a disorder in A)pitch.
B)voice quality.
C)fluency.
D)nasality.
Q4) By what age are most normal children able to speak in two- to three-word sentences, using generally correct syntax, although they may make some common errors?
A)10 months of age
B)7 months to 1 year of age
C)1 to 2 years of age
D)2 to 3 years of age
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Q5) Explain the roles of speech and language in the communication process.
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Chapter 9: Children With Special Gifts and Talents
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Q1) __________ studied outstanding Englishmen and concluded that extraordinary ability ran in families and was genetic in origin.
A)Lewis Terman
B)Francis Galton
C)Paul Torrance
D)David Wechsler
Q2) Project U-Stars
A)is a preschool program for young children who are gifted.
B)is a science based enrichment program for high school students.
C)helps to identify young children with outstanding potential through teacher's knowledge of their students.
D)is a cluster grouping program for middle school science.
Q3) Standard intelligence tests often do not measure the ability to A)compare things.
B)see relationships.
C)solve problems.
D)use divergent thinking.
Q4) ____________________ are children who develop extraordinarily fast.
Q5) Describe Project U-Stars and list three key elements that the program is based on.
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Chapter 10: Children With Deafness or Hearing Loss
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Q1) Most students who are deaf rely upon their primary language being A)English.
B)signed English.
C)Home signs.
D)ASL (American Sign Language).
Q2) A student with a hearing loss of 40 to 60 dB
A)misses most speech sounds at normal conversational level.
B)hears no speech sounds at normal conversational level.
C)hears only some louder voiced speech sounds.
D)hears no speech or other sounds.
Q3) One of the three bones in the middle ear known as the hammer is called the A)malleus.
B)incus.
C)stapes.
D)cochlea.
Q4) The ____________________ is a type of communication where manual communication is used simultaneously with speech.
Q5) What should the classroom teacher watch for to be able to identify possible hearing problems?
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Chapter 11: Children With Visual Impairments
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Q1) A teacher who explains relationships among objects for a student with visual impairment is providing
A)practice in learning by doing.
B)examples of concreteness.
C)unifying experiences.
D)early intervention.
Q2) A system using embossed characters in different combinations of six dots arranged in a cell that allows people with profound visual impairments to read by touch as well as to write using special aids.
A)Accommodation
B)Access technology
C)Braille
D)Ciliary muscles
E)Convergence
F)Cornea
Q3) One way that children with severe visual impairments acquire language is by A)listening.
B)watching movements.
C)watching facial expressions.
D)using all of these methods.
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Chapter 12: Children With Physical Disabilities, Health
Impairments, and Multiple Disabilities
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Q1) Why is it difficult to develop a succinct definition of multiple and severe disabilities?
A)Because of the varied and diverse combination of characteristics possessed by these children
B)Because of the difficulties of recognizing multiple disabilities
C)Because the medical profession has refused to recognize multiple disabilities
D)Because only individuals who have had the cause of their disabilities diagnosed can be included in the definition
Q2) Alphasmart 2000 is an example of assistive technology for A)reading.
B)notetaking.
C)mobility.
D)auditory memory.
Q3) Instruction for students who are both deaf and blind is channeled primarily through A)auditory feedback.
B)tactile feedback.
C)motion feedback.
D)visual feedback.
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