What is the category of disability characterized by an IQ at least 2 standard deviations below the norm.
Mental Retardation
100
Name the significant federal special education law that provides special needs students a guranteed FAPE in the LRE and is specific about assessment procedures.
PL 94-142 The Education for all Handicapped Children Act also known as IDEA.
100
What is a test that is usually developed by the teacher and comes straight from content in the curriculum?
A curriculum based assessment
100
What is the average IQ score in society?
100
100
What disability category has the most number of students receiving special education services?
Learning Disability
200
What is a disability characterized by average to above average intellectual functioning but low achievement scores and poor academic performance in a skill area?
Learning Disability
200
Name four major tenets of IDEA.
FAPE
LRE
Non-discriminatory evaluation
Parental Participation
Zero Reject
Child Find
Due Process
200
What type of assessment is a collection of artifacts that are saved and used to demonstrate skill sets and competency?
portfolio assessment
200
What does the term NPR standard for when discussing scores from a standardized test?
National Percentile Rank
200
What taxonomy is used to describe the levels of critical thinking?
Bloom's Taxonomy
300
Provide two criteria identified in the IDEA for the disability category known as Behavior Disordered.
Inability to maintain peer relations
Inability to maintain relations with adults
Feelings of depression
Physical symptoms of illness resulting from school or personal issues
Low academic performance
Schizophrenia
300
What is the name of the federal law that has established achievement criteria and requires the special education population to take high stakes assessment tests.
NCLB
300
What is an assessment that measures a student against a group of students that are the same age and usually make up something called a norming group?
Norm referenced test also called a standardized test
300
Describe or identify methods that might be used to assess a student for a behavior disorder.
Rating scale
check list
observation
interviews
apperception test
anecdotal recording
300
What category of disability in IDEA allows a student receive special education services if he/she has ADHD?
Other Health Impairment
400
What is the minimum IQ needed to identify a child as gifted?
Two standard deviations above the mean which is 130
400
How many days does a school district have to evaluate a student for special education once a parent has requested it and sign a permission to evaluate form?
60 calendar days
400
Name one method of checking the reliability of a test?
The test-retest method or compare the results of two different tests designed to assess for the same thing.
400
What is the name of the curve that is used to demonstrate the ranges of scores that we see in standardized tests.
Bell shaped curve or normal curve
400
What is the name of the alternative assessment used in Pennsylvania for severe and profoundly disabled students?
PASA- Pennsylvania Alternative State Assessment
500
Identify three of the syndromes on the Autism Spectrum
Rett
Asperger
Childhood Disintegrative Disorder
Autism
PDD-NOS
500
What is a school district's responsibility pertaining to the evaluation of a non-English speaking child for special education?
School district must attempt to gain access to an interpreter to test the child in his/her native language.
500
What is the type of assessment that a school is required to do on a student to determine the function of an inappropriate behavior?
Functional behavioral assessment
500
Name at least three sources of data a first year teacher could find in his/her school.
standardized test scores
absences
visits to the nurses room
free and reduced lunch
percentages of students proficient on PSSA tests
subgroups within the school
500
Name the type of instruction that considers students' learning style, level of understanding, and interest and address these in product, process, and content.