Vocational Preference Assessment
Behavior Assessment
Social Skills Assessment
Alternate
Assessment
Assessment and IEP Development
100
You are interested in assessing Sally’s vocational preferences toward different assembly tasks. You present various assembly items, such as test tubes, pizza boxes, letter mailers, etc one at a time. Then, you measure how many minutes Sally spends interacting with each item during a five minute interval.
What is Duration Method
100
Mary needs to report to the Behavior Interventionist exactly how long her student can remain at his desk during class before he gets up and walks around the room, no longer paying attention. To accurately record how long each behavior lasts, which recording method should he select?
What is Duration Recording
100
Mrs. Quinn has been asked to assess her student Jake’s ability to initiate greetings toward adults (e.g., say hello to teachers or staff). However, after a whole day of observation, no adults happen to come into the classroom and Mrs. Quinn cannot collect her data. Mrs. Quinn explains her dilemma to several other teachers and requests that they stop by Jake’s classroom to provide an opportunity for her to observe the skill. This is an example of:
What is Contrived Observation
100
States and districts can count the “advanced” scores of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities who take alternative assessments based on alternate achievement standards as long as it doesn’t exceed what percent of all students assessed.
What is the 1% Rule
100
The idea that IEPs are a continual process for assessing students is referred to as:
What is the "Diagnostic-Prescriptive Model"
200
Marcel tells Mr. Smith that he wants to work in a business office like his brother at a big company. However, Mr. Smith noticed that Marcel spends most of his time looking at pictures of farm equipment on the internet and always stares at the construction equipment stored across the street from the playground. When administering a vocational preference assessment, Mr. Smith should make sure to address “manual work” because it might be:
What is manifest interest
200
Maria has noticed that her student Shelly has become verbally aggressive toward other students by shouting that she will “hit” or “hurt” them. Maria decides she needs to find out exactly how many times Shelly is engaging in verbal aggression each day in order to determine if this behavior is increasing or decreasing over time. Which recording method should be used?
What is Event Recording
200
Social skills assessments designed to determine if a student can use verbal skills to engage others in social interaction(e.g., initiating communication or verbally responding to others) target which of the following:
What is Social Expressivity
200
An assessment process applied to ALL students intended to identify those who are not achieving grade level standards is known as:
What is Universal Screening
200
A goal or objective that represents general concepts or behavior classes rather than specific to a particular item or setting is known as which IEP dimensional quality?
What is Generality
300
Abby is in her last year of high school. She has demonstrated an interest and ability in performing secretarial work. Previous responsibilities included:sorting mail, putting together flyers for student events, and filing paperwork. Now, she is looking to get a job doing similar work but she needs services from an adult agencies to help make this transition. Current assessments should focus on what stage of career development?
What is Placement and Follow Up
300
Ms. Luca is interested in assessing how often her student Martin displays crying behavior at school. The Behavior Interventionist wants to know if crying behavior is occurring at school as often as it is at home. Ms. Luca begins recording Martin’s crying behavior during class. She sets a timer to go off every 10 minutes. Each time the timer goes off, she looks at John and records whether or not he was crying at that exact moment. Ms. Luca is using which recording method?
What is Momentary Time Sampling
300
Assessing a student’s ability to accurately decode verbal communication from others, such as the display of good listening skills, refers to which social skill dimension?
What is Social Sensitivity
300
Mia is evaluating her students’ academic portfolios at the end of the school year. She decides to evaluate each subject, such a reading, writing, and math, separately and then assigning grades. This is an example of:
What is Analytic Scoring
300
A goal or objective that can be easily or frequently targeted in the classroom setting is known as which IEP dimensional quality?
What is Instructional Context
400
Forced-choice method, free access method, and duration measurement are all examples of....
What are presentation methods for Informal Assessments
400
Mr. Colt observes that Timothy destroys work materials during vocational training rather than working constructively. For example, when given flyers to mail out to different community agencies, Timothy would tear or bend the flyers. Mr. Colt did not want to risk damaging the limited supply of mailers so he gave Timothy a short break after Timothy destroyed a mailer to ensure he wouldn’t grow sick of the task. To his surprise, Timothy seems to be damaging the supplies more often even though he is getting frequent breaks. This is an example of:
What is Negative Reinforcement
400
The school psychologist is using observation to assess Peter’s social skills. It is clear that Peter is being bullied by peers and is upset about this because his parents have reported that he talks about how upset he is at home. At school, the psychologist notices that Peter continues to smile, even after students make hurtful comments to him. During the assessment, the psychologist should interpret his ability to smile when he is actually upset as evidence of having which social skill?
What is Emotional Control
400
An alternative assessment that displays a student's best work is know as:
What is a Showcase Portfolio
400
Assessments administered to determine “eligibility” for specialized educational services are in which format?
What is Standardized Tests
500
The TPI-2, the Valpar, and the Reading Free Vocation Interest Inventory 2.
What are formal transition assessments
500
Joey has a history of making inappropriate comments and telling others too much personal information about himself. In response, his teacher began to reprimand her. Each time Joey makes an inappropriate comment, his teacher would say in a stern voice “I’m sorry but I can’t talk about that” and then walk away. Over the next few weeks, Joey began making inappropriate comments less often. In this case, using a stern voice is an example of:
What is Positive Punishment
500
A social skills assessment method involving asking students to rate the friends they would like to spend time with is known as:
What is Sociometric Assessment methods
500
David decides to have his students develop a portfolio to demonstrate how their skills have improved during their time in his art class. He instructs his students to take a picture of the first pot they made in class, a second pot they made that was a little more polished, and then a picture at the end of the semester that showed a fully finished and painted piece of pottery good enough to sell at a local art shop. This is an example of what type of alternative portfolio assessment?
What is Progress Portfolio
500
The IEP team includes: parent(s), at least one general education teacher, a special education teacher, LEA representative, an individual who can interpret instructional implications of evaluation results, the student when appropriate. This is clarified by:
What is IDEA 2004
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