Assessments
What kind of IEP includes goals that are aligned with the state’s academic content standards for a student’s assigned grade level.
Standards-based IEP
Give one example that demonstrates the most appropriate student involvement in the assessment process
Students create an assignment and the scoring criteria.
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect, characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column, is called
spina bifida
The _____________ model focuses on how teachers must understand the causes of negative behavior and how to help the student acquire self control through reflection and planning.
psycho educational
What is the most important goal for educators when collaborating with families of students?
Ensuring that students are successful and learn
Which assessment is generally the most useful in making decisions about instruction for a student with a disability?
Curriculum-based assessment
Which of the following types of assessment focuses on early milestones and helps to determine whether further testing is needed?
Screenings
To be identified as having an intellectual disability, a child must demonstrate significantly below average intellectual functioning and
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
What is an example of how proximity control is used in the classroom?
The teacher stands or sits close to a student who appears ready to start a disruption.
How should teachers adjust their teaching during lectures if one of their students has a mild hearing loss?
The teacher should face the class while giving a lecture or providing directions for a task.
Which assessment provides data such as percentile level, stanine scores, and standard scores?
Standardized
What is a procedural safeguard included in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) ?
Parents have the right to examine all educational records.
What goal will most likely be included in an Individualized Education Program (IEP) for an eighth-grade student who has autism spectrum disorder (ASD) ?
Using eye contact when speaking to the teacher
A functional behavior assessment involves the following 5 steps:
Describe the targeted behavior in measurable, observable terms; Collect information on possible functions of the targeted behavior; Categorize the behavior to determine the deficit; Analyze the behavior and form a hypothesis on the function of the behavior; Devise an intervention plan. These steps help to develop an effective behavior plan.
What organizations serves youths with intellectual disabilities, children who are gifted and talented, and children who are abused or neglected?
Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)
A student’s IEP must include which 3 things?
Placement, Long-term goals and Present levels of functioning.
Federal safeguards in IDEA require parental consent before beginning what THREE steps in the IEP process?
What is an expectation that a student who has difficulty counting money can meet?
Student will learn to use adaptations in place of an academic skill, such as putting predetermined amounts of money in an envelope to spend as needed.
What is the most appropriate reason for using reinforcement contingencies with students who exhibit challenging behaviors?
To enhance students’ basic lifestyles
What activity would enable a student with an intellectual disability to best demonstrate knowledge of rocks and the rock cycle?
Filling in a concept map of the rock cycle with examples for each type of rock
What is the purpose of a cognitive assessment?
To measure intellectual ability
What kind of assessment involves students doing high quality, independent activities that test their subject matter knowledge.
Summative assessments
What disability is most associated with seizures?
Epilepsy
The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales is most likely to be used in the identification of
intellectual disabilities
Place the following levels of phonological awareness in the correct order of development...
Listening and rhyming, syllable awareness, onset and rime, and phoneme blending