Assessment in Special Education Midterm
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Course Introduction
Assessment in Special Education offers a comprehensive overview of the principles, practices, and tools involved in evaluating students with diverse learning needs. The course explores various types of assessments, including formal, informal, diagnostic, and curriculum-based methods, and emphasizes legal and ethical considerations in the assessment process. Students will learn how to select, administer, and interpret assessment data to inform individualized education program (IEP) development, instructional planning, and progress monitoring. Emphasis is placed on collaboration with families, multidisciplinary teams, and the use of culturally responsive assessment practices to ensure equitable and accurate identification and support of students with disabilities.
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Chapter 1: Special Education in Context People Concepts and Perspectives
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Q1) Which of the following is not an advantage of labeling individuals with special needs?
A) Labels serve as a means for effective communication among professionals.
B) Labels establish an individual's eligibility for services.
C) Labels serve as a means for funding.
D) Labels can be used as an acceptable excuse.
Answer: D
Q2) One concern associated with alternative teaching is that
A) Not all students receive all of the critical content
B) It requires two teachers
C) Students may become stigmatized
D) Students may not receive equity in instruction
Answer: C
Q3) Which term refers to the number of new instances of a disability occurring within a specific period?
A) Prevalence
B) Incidence
C) Frequency
D) Population
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Policies Practices and Programs
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Q1) The individualized family service plan must be reviewed every 9 months.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Judicial decisions and legislative enactments have been a major force in transforming the field of special education.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) What philosophy supports the belief that all children, regardless of the severity of their disability, must be provided an education appropriate to their unique needs at no cost to the parent/guardian?
A) Equal opportunity
B) Integration
C) Least restrictive environment
D) Zero reject
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity and Exceptionality
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Q1) Historically, greater numbers of children from minority groups have been placed in special education classrooms than would be anticipated based on their proportion of the school population.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Which of the following describes cultural pluralism? Cultural and ethnic differences
A) Must be appreciated and respected
B) Must be abandoned
C) Need to be relinquished
D) Must be overlooked.
Answer: A
Q3) Two students from the same culture group will act _______.
A) The same in all situations
B) Differently from each other in all situations
C) According to their own unique characteristics
D) Differently from all other persons
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Parents Families and Exceptionality
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Q1) The degree of freedom and independence experienced by each member of a family is known as
A) Cohesion
B) Adaptability
C) Transitions
D) Family life cycle
Q2) When first notifying parents of a child's disability, it is best to
A) Provide parents with all possible information at once so it doesn't appear that any information is being withheld
B) Tell parents only the bare minimum in order to get the child services
C) Deliver information in two parts to allow parents to absorb the information
D) Notify the parent by letter that the child has a disability and will be receiving special education services
Q3) One benefit that almost all families need is the emotional resiliency and information that other families have acquired about life with disabilities.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Why are parents considered a valuable resource for professionals?
Q5) How does a child with an exceptionality affect his or her family?
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Chapter 5: Assistive Technology
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Q1) An example of assistive technology used for the purpose of mobility is
A) A gait trainer
B) Adjustable-height desks
C) Alternative keyboard
D) Custom wedges
Q2) Which of the following is not one of the seven purposes for assistive technology as stipulated by Bryant and Bryant (2003)?
A) Positioning
B) Computer access
C) Composition of written material
D) Adaptive environments
Q3) In the 1970s, with the invention of the _______, additional assistive technology became available to support students with disabilities.
A) Digital camera
B) iPod
C) Microcomputer
D) Text-to-speech software
Q4) IDEA 2004 included the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS).Explain what the standard stipulated.
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Chapter 6: Individuals With Intellectual Disability
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Q1) The most recent strategy used for classifying individuals with intellectual disabilities by the AAIDD was to classify on the basis of
A) Intellectual functioning
B) Severity of intellectual disabilities
C) Cause of the disability
D) Levels of support
Q2) Explain what is meant by "Monitoring" in the CLOCS-RAM mnemonic of characteristics of good teaching.
Q3) What is the most common type of Down syndrome?
A) Anencephaly 12
B) Turner syndrome
C) China syndrome
D) Trisomy 21
Q4) What is the instructional technique used when a teacher takes a student into the natural environment to teach skills in the real settings in which they will be used?
Q5) Why do early intervention programs emphasize a family-centered approach to service delivery?
Q6) Transition services for students should begin no later than what age?
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Chapter 7: Individuals With Learning Disabilities
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Q1) When assessing the presence of a disability, the ___________________ between the student's academic performance and the estimated potential is considered.
A) Discrepancy
B) Transition
C) Communication
D) Training
Q2) Which phase focused on the study of brain functions and impact on cognitive impairments?
A) Foundation phase
B) Transition phase
C) Integration phase
D) Current phase
Q3) What an individual believes about what contributes to his or her success or failure on a task is known as
A) Metacognition
B) Meta-analysis
C) Pragmatics
D) Attribution
Q4) Provide five principles for effective cognitive education programming.
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Chapter 8: Individuals With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
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Q1) Describe the evolution of the identification of individuals with ADHD.How were these children viewed in the early 1900s? What were some key findings that changed the way that professionals thought about this disorder?
Q2) Explain how instructional choice might be an effective instructional practice with students with ADHD.
Q3) What is the youngest age any medication used to treat ADHD is approved for?
Q4) All of the following are potential characteristics of adults who have ADHD except A) Chronic fatigue
B) Feelings of restlessness
C) Relationship difficulties
D) Anger management difficulties
Q5) What treatment approach do researchers believe is the most effective for students with ADHD?
Q6) Disorganization and inattention are associated with impairments in the A) Cerebellum
B) Basal ganglia
C) Prefrontal lobe and frontal cortex
D) None of the above
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Chapter 9: Individuals With Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
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Q1) _______ is a behavioral self-control strategy; students compare their performance to a Criterion, record their efforts, and obtain reinforcement if appropriate.
A) Mnemonic strategy
B) Content enhancement strategy
C) Self-monitoring strategy
D) None of the above
Q2) Select three assessment practices for identifying the presence of an emotional or behavioral disorder.Describe each practice and discuss strengths and weaknesses for each.
Q3) Over time, punishment procedures are generally ineffective.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Most students with an emotional or behavioral disorder receive instruction in the general education classroom.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Positive behavior support tends to respond reactively to problem behaviors.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Q1) A diagnosis of autism requires evidence that 11 of the 12 symptoms are present.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Individuals with autism spectrum disorders have an increased risk for seizures.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Who was one of the first behavioral psychologists to propose that autism was environmentally determined?
A) C. B. Fester
B) Loretta Bender
C) Bruno Bettelheim
D) Bernard Rimland
Q4) Which one of the following suggests that autism may be neurological in nature?
A) Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
B) Obsessive-compulsive disorder
C) Schizophrenia
D) Seizure disorders
Q5) Name three of the residential options for adults with autism spectrum disorders.
Q6) Identify and discuss the suggestion that there are multiple etiologies of autism.
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Chapter 11: Individuals With Speech and Language Impairments
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Q1) What is an appropriate educational strategy to use if a teacher wants to develop functional language skills for a student with central auditory processing disorder?
A) Do auditory discrimination exercises (the student identifies the difference between words such as these and please)
B) Have the student repeat oral directions after the teacher gives them
C) Have the student practice repeating sounds heard in a sequence
D) Have the student locate a sound the teacher makes in a room
Q2) Effective use of language is imperative for children to be able to read, write, and understand perceptions of those around them.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is not an example of nonlinguistic communication?
A) Rolling your eyes
B) Keyboarding
C) Nodding your head
D) Gesturing
Q4) Differentiate between speech, language, and communication.
Q5) Differentiate between receptive and expressive language.
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Chapter 12: Individuals With Hearing Impairments
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Q1) Hearing loss that is acquired after birth and not inherited is referred to as
A) Autosomal recessive
B) Autosomal dominant
C) Adventitious hearing loss
D) Acoustic
Q2) Proponents of Deaf culture view spoken English as an optional second language and American Sign Language (ASL)as the language of choice.What is the term for a person with a hearing loss that the proponents of Deaf culture do not use and that they find offensive?
Q3) Research on the levels of intelligence of children with hearing impairments indicates that, compared to children without hearing impairments, these children have
A) Significantly lower levels of intelligence
B) Similar levels of intelligence
C) Slightly higher levels of intelligence
D) Slightly lower levels of intelligence
Q4) Signed English is an even closer match to ASL but with the advantage of English word order.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Individuals With Visual Impairments
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Q1) What are three refractive errors that affect vision?
Q2) Orientation and mobility training is required to
A) Teach independent travel
B) Increase one's knowledge of visual impairments
C) Acquire academic skills
D) Use computer technology
Q3) Name at least three materials that could be used to help a child with a visual impairment learn about maps.
Q4) All of the following are examples of adaptive software listed in the text except A) Screen enlargement software
B) Screen readers
C) Speech recognition
D) Braille input devices
Q5) In the eye, color is defined in the
A) Rod cells
B) Cone cells
C) Macula
D) Vitreous body
Q6) Cite one challenge to the provision of certified vision teachers for students with visual impairments.
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Chapter 14: Individuals With Physical Disabilities Health
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Q1) Cerebral palsy was originally named after which researcher for his pioneering efforts?
A) Little
B) Macmillan
C) Hendrick
D) Beattie
Q2) Discuss multiple ways an individual can acquire a traumatic brain injury.
Q3) Not every school-age child with a physical or health impairment requires special education services.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In students with traumatic brain injury, motor skills generally improve first and higher-order cognitive skills improve last.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Most students with multiple disabilities are educated in a
A) Separate school
B) Separate classroom
C) Resource room
D) General education classroom
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Chapter 15: Individuals Who Are Gifted and Talented
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Q1) Name three possible reasons culturally diverse students are underrepresented in gifted and talented programs.
Q2) Leta S.Hollingworth wrote Gifted Children: Their Nature and Nurture (1926).
A)True
B)False
Q3) All are characteristics of young talented children except
A) Excellent memories
B) Dyssynchrony
C) Precious
D) Hyperactive
Q4) Which is not a common characteristic of gifted adolescent girls?
A) IQ scores drop during adolescence.
B) Gifted girls take less rigorous courses than do gifted boys.
C) Academic performance drops during adolescence.
D) Gifted girls attend less prestigious universities than do gifted boys.
Q5) Differentiated education was a theme throughout the chapter.The reason for this theme is gifted and talented students are the only students who will benefit from this type of education strategy.
A)True
B)False
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