JeopardyLabs

Week 1 Review

100

What does FAPE stand for?

Free Appropriate Public Education

200

What law created school choice?

No Child Left Behind.

300

What is the difference between an accommodation and a modification?

An accommodation changes the way a student can access the information where a modification changes the content and learning goal for the student.

400

What did IDEA create?

Mediation to resolve differences and is used when there is a refusal to sign an IEP as well as assistance for bilingual children.

500

What law gives students and their families the right to due process in special education cases?

Educational Amendments Act (1974)

Common Core

100

Common Core is a test... True or false?

False.

200

Common Core standards are intended to set kids up for success in college, career and _____.

Life.

300

How many states currently use Common Core (not including the District of Columbia)?

41

400

For grades 8-12 the standards exist in _____ and _____.

English language arts/literacy and math.

500

Name 2 major groups that help create Common Core.

The National Association of Education (NEA), American Federation of Teachers (AFT), National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), and National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

State Testing

100

All students that receive Massachusetts funds are required to participate in assessment, regardless of disability. True or false?

True

200

What is the Massachusetts standardized test?

MCAS

300

What are the 3 areas students are assessed in?

English language arts/literacy, math, science and technology.

400

When a student takes MCAS-ALT what does the teacher have to make?

A portfolio.

500

The MCAS-Alt consists of data collected over most of the school year, based on in-class instruction. What does the assessment include?

a skills survey, data chart, and student work samples.

Exceptional Children

100

Students under the umbrella of deaf and blind have no hearing and vision. True or false?

False.

200

Programs for deaf children are often inappropriate for visually impaired children because they rely heavily on ____.

Sight.

300

IQ scores of 20-25 and below typically result in the classification of:

Profound intellectual disabilities. 

400

List 3 learning and behavioral characteristics are frequently observed in students with severe disabilities 

Slow acquisition rate of new life skills, poor generalization and maintenance of new life skills, limited communication skills, impaired physical and motor skills, deficits in self-help skills, infrequent constructive behavior and interaction, stereotypic and challenging behaviors.

500

How many people experience traumatic brain injuries each year. 

About 1.7 million.