Multiple Choice

Question 1

For a student with emotional disabilities who receives instruction in a general education setting, which of the following learning needs would be most important?

Answer 1

Frequent feedback from the teacher

Question 2

According to research, boys who have been identified with a behavioral disorder are more likely than girls with this disorder to:

Answer 2

Display external symptoms of the disorder, especially in school setting.

Question 3

Compared to their classmates without disabilities, students with mild mental retardation are likely have significantly more trouble doing which of the following?

Answer 3

Generalizing skills or concepts from one setting to another.

Question 4

Which of the following communicative tasks would likely pose the greatest challenge to a student with receptive language delay?

Answer 4

Describing one key event in a story read aloud by the teacher.

Question 5

While meeting with parents of Paul, a student with a learning disability, a special educator learns that they feel embarrassed by his disability. After confiding this information the parents go on the assert that Paul is smart but lazy. They add that laziness is the main reason that he does not perform well as either their friends’ children or his own siblings. which of the following would be the special educators best initial response to Paul’s parents in this situation?

Answer 5

Providing them with the names of some local family counselors and advising them to seek professional help in dealing with their feelings.

Question 6

The medications typically used to treat personality disorders or psychoses in children with emotional disorders will most likely have which of the following side effects?

Answer 6

Headaches and nausea

Question 7

Jacob is a student who has been diagnosed with anxiety disorder related to public performance. This form of anxiety will make it significantly more difficult for Jacob to complete which of the following school tasks?

Answer 7

Reading aloud in class

Question 8

Barbara is a student with mild mental retardation who has delays in cognitive, social and behavioral functioning. She has recently joined an inclusion class for most of the school day. In this situation, Barbara is likely to need the most support in which of the following areas?

Answer 8

Interacting appropriately with her new classmates.

Question 9

Research has shown that students with learning disabilities who have visual or auditory processing deficits are likely to demonstrate delays are typically most apparent in students’ difficulties with:

Answer 9

Recognizing the feelings and social cues exhibited by others.

Question 10

In students with learning disabilities, which of the following is disability related factor commonly linked to low academic performance?

Answer 10

Negative expectations for their own achievement.

Question 11

Which of the following best describes content validity as it relates to assessment?

Answer 11

The degree to which an instrument measures the theoretical construct it intends to measure.

The ability of an instrument to test the skill areas it supports to measure.

Question 12

A special educator examines a student’s writing sample and underlines the misspelled words as shown below

My Dad and I went to the zoo
We saw bunnys and ponys and little kittys, and we even saw a bear, and two puppys.

The special educator determines that the student does not know how to write the plural form noun ending in y.

in this situation, the special educator is using which of the following types of assessment?

Answer 12

error analysis

Question 13

A special educator uses a performance assessment for students with disabilities. In the assessment, students must plan and conduct a simple science experiment to answer a question. Compares to paper-and-pencil exams, this type of performance assessment is more effective in providing information about students’ ability to:

Answer 13

Apply concepts and skills in realistic situations.

Question 14

A committee of Special Education CSE0 wants to gain the support of a student’s parents during the nondiscriminatory assessment process. The CSE can best accomplish that goal by:

Answer 14

Inviting the parents to take part in an observational assessment of their child’s work habits at school.

Question 15

A general education teacher in inclusion classroom asks a special educator for guidance on planning assessments that are fair to students with disabilities. The special educator’s most appropriate response would be to advice the teacher to design assessments that:

Answer 15

Measure the progress of students with disabilities toward achieving their individual learning goals.

Question 16

Research shows that curriculum-based assessment will lead to the greatest academic gains for students when the teacher:

Answer 16

Uses test results to modify instructional plans.

Question 17

A student’s performance on NYSAA is evaluated using which of the following methods?

Answer 17

Rating the student’s performance according to an established scoring rubric

Question 18

A special educator routinely incorporates curricular content and instructional material that re related to students’ cultural backgrounds. This practice is likely to be effective primarily because students?

Answer 18

Learn more easily when instruction in clearly locked to their everyday lives.

Question 19

A special educator collaborated with a general education teacher in providing instruction for a student with disabilities. One of the student’s learning goals is to master and identified set of skills from the math curriculum. The special educator begins by using an information criterion-referenced test to assess the student’s current level of mastery on the identified skills. In addition to giving the teachers information needed for instructional planning, the criterion-referenced test will also provide the teachers with:

Answer 19

Baseline data for monitoring the students progress in mastering their skills.

Question 20

Brent is a student with moderate mental retardation. For most of the school day, he attends a self-contained special education class. During the upcoming school year, he will be attending physical education with general education class and the physical education teacher is concerned about his ability to participate in all activities. Which of the following accommodations would likely be most effective for facilitating Brent’s participation in physical education class?

Answer 20

Breaking down class activities into various set of skills and assisting Brent in practicing those skills.

Question 21

Billy is a student with moderate mental retardation. His special educator would like to measure Billy’s progress in meeting Individualized Educational Program (IEP) goals related to various forms of assessment would be most appropriate for this purpose?

Answer 21

Teacher-designed checklist

Question 22

A student with autism has recently immigrated to US with his parents. His special educator would like to ensure that his IEP is culturally responsive, particularly to the area of self-help skills. Which of the assessment activities would likely provide the most useful information for this purpose?

Answer 22

Conducting an interview with the student’s parents to collaboratively assess the student’s self help-skill

Question 23

Which of the following is the primary purpose of the annual review of a student’s IEP?

Answer 23

To assess the effectiveness of IEP in addressing the student’s educational needs and strengths.

Question 24

Troy is a student with learning disability in math. During his IEP annual review meeting his parents requested that he continues to receive special education services during the summer. Before adding summer serviced to Troy’s IEP, the committee on Special Education (CSE) must first determine whether:

Answer 24

Troy would likely demonstrate a substantial regression on skills without receiving programming during the summer.

Question 25

A special educator is gathering information for a meeting to reevaluate a student IEP. When accessing the student’s records, the special educator is required by law to:

Answer 25

Record the student’s name and identification number on a sign-out sheet.

Question 26

A committee on Special Education (CSE) plans and implements an IEP for a student with physical disabilities. An occupational therapist who serves on the CSE would have primary responsibility for:

Answer 26

Identifying specialized equipment and procedures for the student to use in accessing classroom resources and materials.

Question 27

A collaborative team of professionals can most effectively create a learning environment for student with disabilities that promotes the achievement of goals and objectives by:

Answer 27

Planning together to address goals and design instruction with the student’s individual needs in mind.

Question 28

A special educator teaches a life skills class for students who have mental retardation. Which of the following would be the teacher’s best classroom management strategy for helping these students make transitions from one instructional activity to the next?

Answer 28

Breaking the transition into steps and providing clear direction for each step.

Question 29

Mr. Doyle is a paraprofessional in a inclusion classroom that contains a number of students who are difficult to manage. He has been having trouble lining the students up after their physical education class. The students run and push their way into like, and it takes Mr. Doyle considerable time to reestablish control. The classroom teacher, Ms. Lang wants to use a collaborative approach to solve the problem and promote a more orderly transition. Her best strategy for achieving this goal would be to:

Answer 29

Meeting with Mr. Doyle and the physical education teacher to develop a transitional calming activity for the end of physical education classes.

Question 30

A special education teacher will be co-teaching with a general education teacher in an inclusion classroom. The teachers want to manage this arrangement in a way that will result in effective instruction for all students in the class. Which of the following would be the teachers’ best strategy for achieving this goal?

Answer 30

Engaging in ongoing information sharing and coordination of instructional activities.

Question 31

Jason, a student with traumatic brain injury, attends classes in a general education setting where a special educator serves as a consultant. He also receives a variety of services including physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy. In coordinating Jason’s services, which of the following strategies would be most ensuring an efficient and effective use of instructional time?

Answer 31

Collaborating with Jason’s therapists and teachers to incorporate practice of therapy-related skills into daily instruction in general education setting.

Question 32

Jill is a student with learning disability that affects her reading comprehension. She has particular difficulty reading science and social studies texts. Jill’s special education teacher would like to provide her with software to support her learning in these content areas. Which of the following types of software would likely be most effective for this purpose?

Answer 32

Concept-mapping.

Question 33

Ajani is a student with Cerebral Palsy. Midway through the school year, he will be making the transition from self-contained classroom to an inclusion classroom. In coordinating transition services for Ajani, his special educator should be aware that the school counselor could most appropriately assume which of the following responsibilities?

Answer 33

Helping Ajani adjust socially and emotionally to the new placement.

Question 34

A special education teacher in an inclusion classroom is planning a unit of study that will include a cooperative learning research project. Students will be using the internet as the main source of information for their research. Which of the following effective way for the teachers prevent students from plagiarizing information from the internet?

Answer 34

Teaching students how to cite each of their sources correctly.

Question 35

A special educator teaches a small group of students with behavioral disorders in a self-contained classroom. Which of the following actions by this teacher would most likely be considered unethical?

Answer 35

Providing personal information about a noncompliant student to guest speaker who will be making a presentation to the class.

Question 36

Which of the following developments in the US in the second half of the twentieth century provided the greatest impetus for sweeping reform in the field of special education?

Answer 36

The civil rights movement.

Question 37

Aaron, a student with a reading disability, has received reading instruction in a resource room for the past seven months. Recent evaluations show significant improvement in Aaron’s reading skills. According to the IDEA, which of the following individuals must provide written permission before a change in Aaron’s educational placement can be made?

Answer 37

Aaron’s parents

Question 38

The parents’ guardians of a student with disabilities have the legal right to:

Answer 38

Challenge any decision made by their child’s multidisciplinary team in regard to the child’s educational program.

Question 39

Ms. Rosen is a special educator who teaches in an inclusion classroom. As part of her commitment to become a reflective practitioner, she decides to assess her ability to provide quality instruction to all students in her class. Ms. Rosen asks a colleague to videotape her teaching a lesson, after receiving written permission form the parents.
Upon viewing the tape, she comes concerned that she is paying more attention to the boys in the class then the girls (ie: calling on boys more frequently, providing boys will more positive feedback) which of the following steps would be most appropriate for Ms. Rosen to take first in addressing this concern?

Answer 39

Making a conscious effort to improve the balance of her interactions with students and assessing her performance with another videotape in a few weeks.

Question 40

A community organization offers a free after-school recreation program twice a week in a school building. Ms. Adams is a special education who teaches in the building, and notices that only two students with disabilities participate in the program by students with disabilities. Which of the following would likely be most effective first step for Ms. Adams to take in this advocacy effort?

Answer 40

Offering to work with the director of the program to prepare an outreach initiative to encourage students with disabilities to participate.

Question 41

A special educator in a rural community wishes to establish and maintain ongoing communication with other professionals. In the field of special education to share classroom experiences and instructional strategies. Which of the following activities would likely be the most effective way for educator to accomplish this goal?

Answer 41

Attending an annual conference of national or regional professional organization for special educators.

Question 42

A special education teacher has students record their personal thoughts and ideas in a journal. The journals are meant to be read only by the teacher. Which of the following journal entries would justify an exception to the teacher’s practice of confidentiality?

Answer 42

A story about an individual who commits suicide.

Question 43

A special education teacher is contracted by a university researcher who wants to conduct a study about the attitudes of students with disabilities toward school. The researcher would like to conduct 20-min interview with her students. After meeting with the researcher and reviewing the interview the teacher is satisfies that the study is safe, ethical, and respectful of students’ privacy. Which of the following would be the most appropriate step for the teacher to take next in support this research study?

Answer 43

Sending a note to students’ parents’ describing the study and inviting their children to participate in it.

Question 44

Mr. Chua is a new special education teacher. His mentor teacher suggest that he begins organizing a professional portfolio to document his development as an educator. The portfolio will include lesson plans, description of instructional activities, and student work samples. To improve his effectiveness as an educator, Mr. Chua should include which of the following additional materials in his portfolio?

Answer 44

Documentation of professional development activities in which he participates.

Question 45

Which of the following health conditions is likely to have the greatest influence over a child’s language development?

Answer 45

Hearing loss

Question 46

Research has shown that Down syndrome is caused by:

Answer 46

Chromosomal disorder

Question 47

Jacob is a student who has been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder with an anxiety disorder related to public performance. This form of anxiety will make it significantly more difficult for Jacob to complete which of the following tasks?

Answer 47

Reading aloud in class

Question 48

Ian is a student with muscular dystrophy who has recently experienced a sharp decline in muscular control. In this situation, Ian is likely to face the most difficulty in which of the following areas of emotional or social functioning?

Answer 48

Maintaining a sense of personal independence.

Question 49

According to Lev Vygotsky sociocultural theory of human development, children learn best by:

Answer 49

Engaging in scaffolding activités with individuals who are more knowledgable.

Question 50

A norm-referenced intelligence test provides which of the following types of information?

Answer 50

A comparison of a student’s performance on cognitive tasks with that of the student’s age-or grade-level peers.

Question 51

A special educator uses a performance assessment for students with disabilities. In the assessment, students must plan and conduct a simple science experiment to answer the question. Compared to appertains and pencil exams, this type of assessment is more effective in providing information about the students’ ability to:

Answer 51

Apply concepts and skills in realistic situations.

Question 52

Researcher shows that curriculum-based assessment will lead to the greatest academic gain for students when the teacher:

Answer 52

Uses test results to modify instructional plans.

Question 53

A CSE is meeting to plan a nondiscriminatory assessment for a student. This special educator is serving as chairperson of the CSE. The special educator’s most important responsibility in this situation is to ensure that all team members:

Answer 53

Are acquainted with a wide variety of assessment procedures.

Question 54

General and special educators most typically use portfolios as an assessment strategy to:

Answer 54

Document student’s performance over time.

Question 55

The CSE is planning a triennial evaluation for a student who is classified as having a learning disability. The CSE must decide whether the student should be declassified or continue to receive special education services. To assist the CSE in making this decision, the triennial evaluation should provide information that will answer which of the following questions?

Answer 55

Have the student’s achievement and skill level improve to the extent that the student could be successful in the general education program?

Question 56

The school psychologist would most likely be responsible for providing which of the following types of information to the CSE:

Answer 56

An in-depth analysis of Victor’s intellectual abilities.

Question 57

Monique is a student in an inclusion class who has cognitive deficits due to a traumatic brain injury from a car accident that took place two years ago. Which of the following information must be included in Monique’s IEP?

Answer 57

An account of Monique’s injury and subsequent medical treatment she received.

Question 58

A student who is an English Language Learner is referred to the CSE for non discriminatory evaluation. Assessment results reveal that her general intellectual functioning is significantly below average. When planning the student’s individual program, the CSE could most appropriately use these assessment results to:

Answer 58

Suggest specific instructional and assessment modifications to address bother limited English Proficiency and her disability.

Question 59

Paraprofessionals working in special education are likely to be most effective in promoting student achievement when they are given the opportunity to:

Answer 59

Participate in collaborative planning with teachers.

Question 60

A collaborative team of professionals can most effectively create a learning environment for students with disabilities that promotes the achievement of goals and objectives by:

Answer 60

Planning together to address goals and design instruction with the student’s individual needs in mind.

Question 61

Ms. Rodrigues is a general education teacher who teaches in an inclusion classroom. A special educator co-teaches with her for two hours each day, and a paraprofessional assist her throughout the school day. During one of their weekly team meeting, Ms. Rodriguez expresses concerns about a student with Autism. She states that the student’s behaviors becoming increasingly disruptive and distracting to others. The most appropriate first step for the team to take in addressing Ms. Rodriguez’s concerns would be to:

Answer 61

Clarify the problem by asking her to share several examples of the student’s behavior.

Question 62

An aide is assigned to a classroom that includes Fatima, a student with learning disability. One of the aid’s responsibilities is to support Fatima during in-class assignments. Which of the following would be the most effective and productive way for the special educator to make use of the aide in this regard?

Answer 62

Having the aide be responsible for ensuring that Fatima has all the materials and information she needs to perform the assigned work.

Question 63

Which of the following procedures would likely be the most effective approach to establish classroom rules in an inclusive setting?

Answer 63

Hold a class discussion to identify a few general rules and then post them in the classroom.

Question 64

After finishing a social studies unit, a general education teacher permits each student to create a final project in whatever format the students may choose to give an oral rapport, put on a skit, write a journal entry, or create a poster. For students with special needs the greatest benefit of this practice is that it:

Answer 64

Allows them to use their strongest communication mode to demonstrate what they have learned.

Question 65

Joey is a student with ADHD. His teacher is concerned because Joey frequently loses focus during instruction so he does not understand the concepts that are present. As a result he often performs poorly on assignments and tests. Which of the following accommodations would likely be most beneficial for Joey?

Answer 65

Incorporating hands-on instructional activities.

Question 66

Mari is a student with mild mental retardation in an inclusion class. Mari’s special education and general education teachers are concerned that the concepts in an upcoming social studies unit will be especially challenging for Mari. In planning the unit, Mari’s teachers can most effectively address their concerns by:

Answer 66

Modifying social studies lessons to support Mari’s participation based on her individual learning goals.

Question 67

Mr. Simon is a special educator teacher who serves as a consultant to a general education teachers in inclusion classrooms. Janine is a student with a learning disability related to reading comprehension. Her classroom teachers asks Ms. Simon for strategies to help Janine understand content-are reading assignment. Which of the following suggestions by Mr. Simon would likely be most effective for the teachers to use with Janine?

Answer 67

“Tell Janine the purpose for reading a chapter, and then provide Janine with a graphic organizer to use while reading.”

Question 68

Special educator and a general education teacher would like to implement sustained silent reading in their inclusion classroom. They are aware that several of their students with disabilities do not like to read their own for enjoyment. Which of the following strategies would likely be most effective for encouraging the students with disabilities to participate in this activity?

Answer 68

Having students with disabilities discuss their books in pairs after sustained silent reading.

Question 69

Ms. Dupre is a special educator in a resource room who teaches Stefan, a student with learning disability. She would like to help Stephan improve his oral reading fluency. Which of the following questions would be most important for Ms. Dupre to ask herself when selecting passage for this purpose?

Answer 69

Is the passage written at Stephan’s independent reading level?

Question 70

A special educator providing phonics instruction to students with mild cognitive delays. Which of the following list of words would be most appropriate for the teacher to include when introducing students to consonant blends?

Answer 70

Fly, cry, play

Question 71

A student with disabilities has learned to tell time to the hour and to the half-hour using both analog and digital clocks. In helping the students to apply this knowledge to daily living situations, it would be most effective for the special educator to have the student:

Answer 71

Indicate when it is time for lunch or other specific activities.

Question 72

While attempting to complete a math worksheet, a student with visual-perceptual disability keeps losing her place and mixing her information contained in different problems. The teacher’s best response for meeting this student’s needs would be to:

Answer 72

Create a cover sheet with a window in it that the student can use to view one problem at a time.

Question 73

Which of the following would be the most important question for a special educator to consider when deciding whether to begin teaching basic arithmetic facts to a student with mild mental retardation?

Answer 73

Can the student use objects or pencil marks to demonstrate the meaning of the operations represented.

Question 74

Lisa is a student with Autism and a learning disability. She receives instruction from a special educator in a resource room for two hours each day and spends the rest of the school day in the general education setting. Her special educator has been working with Lisa on greeting other people appropriately. To help Lisa generalize this skill, it would be most effective for her general educators to:

Answer 74

Reinforce her use of greetings in the classroom.

Question 75

Which planning a life skills curriculum for students with disabilities from diverse backgrounds, a special educator interviews students’ families about their food preparation and eating customs. The primary benefit of this practice is that it will help ensure that:

Answer 75

Students learning skills in school that are consistent with their cultural practices.

Question 76

A student with special needs persistently complains that classmates are being mean to her. She makes this charge indiscriminately in many kinds of situations, including when someone is using the computer she wants to use, or when someone is reading the book she wants to read, or when someone picks up her pencil by mistake. If the following, the most important social skill area to focus on with this student would be:

Answer 76

Recognizing and acknowledging other’s motives.