Praxis Flashcards
(182 cards)
Which of the following interventions is most effective at facilitating the education of gifted students?
a) use of heterogeneous grouping to allow gifted students to strengthen social skills as well as to grow academically
b) assignment of independent research projects within the framework of the curriculum
c) implementation of cooperative learning to encourage gifted students to work up to their ability
d) provision of multisensory instructional input to capitalize on the divergent thinking of gifted students
d) provision of multisensory instructional input to capitalize on the divergent thinking of gifted students
One change in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA 2004) was that Individual Education Programs (IEP’s) must include a description of benchmarks or short-term objectives only for students who:
a) are blind or visually impaired
b) take alternate assessments aligned to alternative achievement standards
c) are transitioning from Part C to Part B
d) are receiving positive behavioral supports
e) have limited English proficiency
b) take alternate assessments aligned to alternative achievement standards
In a code-based phonics approach to early reading instruction, first-grade students are taught the sounds to the letters b, a, s, and g. According to the theory underlying this approach, which of the following would be most effective as the first sentence for these children to read?
a) Bob ate a snack.
b) A dog bit Ann.
c) Gail has a bag.
d) Sally was happy.
e) Mary saw Tom cry
c) Gail has a bag.
uses the targeted letters b, a, s, and g 8 times.
The Woodcock-Johnson III Battery (WJ-III) includes assessment clusters to test all of the following learning areas EXCEPT:
a) oral expression
b) reading comprehension
c) interpersonal communication
d) mathematics calculation
e) basic reading skils
c) interpersonal communication
in a meeting with the school psychologist, ms. Harcar, a new sixth-grade teacher, expresses some concerns about a student, Anthony. The psychologist has worked with the boy and knows him well. Anthony has a mild learning disability and receives academic support. He is doing well on a daily basis but has difficulty performing on tests. The psychologist discusses ways Ms. Harcar could incorporate study skills into the classroom activities.
With regard to study skills training, the school psychologist should stress which of the following principles while advising Ms. Harcar?
a) study skills of students with disabilities are improved when the students are given a single specific study strategy to follow for all subjects
b) students with disabilities often develop study skills on their own and need only some guidance and reinforcement by the teacher
c) training in study skills needs to include helping students to guide their own thinking, to organize their own study behaviors, and to use varied study approaches
d) study strategies are best taught in a small group by having students practice collaborative problem-soling activities modeled by the teacher
e) study skills are best introduced and maintained in an environment in which the teacher has an authoritarian teaching style
c) training in study skills needs to include helping students to guide their own thinking, to organize their own study behaviors, and to use varied study approaches
students get the best results when the use a variety of study strategies
The theory of intelligence that proposes that intelligence has three components, including analytical, creative, and practical intelligence, was the work of:
a) Guilford
b) Carroll
c) Sternberg
d) Gardner
e) Thurstone
c) Sternberg
Thurstone’s & Gardner’s work did not involve three components of intelligence. Although Guilford and Carroll also proposed clusters of intelligence, Sternberg identified the clusters as analytical, creative, and practical.
Which of the following curriculum-based assessment strategies emphasizes standardization of procedures?
a) precision teaching
b) informal reading inventory
c) curriculum-based measurement
d) performance assessment
e) error analysis
c) curriculum-based measurement
curriculum-based measurement (CBM) requires standardized testing procedures, including directions, scoring, and materials.
Which of the following assessments is considered a projective technique?
I. The Thematic Apperception Test
II.The Rorschach
III. The Kinetic Family Drawing Test
IV. The Machover Draw-A-Person Test
a) II only
b) I and II only
c) III and IV only
d) II, III, and IV only
e) I, II, III, and IV
e) I, II, III, and IV
Which of the following are components of J. P. Guilford’s Structure of Intellect model?
a) reasoning, perceptual speed, associative memory
b) operations, contents, products
c) analytic intelligence, creative intelligence, practical intelligence
d) fluid intelligence and crystallized intelligence
e) retrievability, general memory, verbal comprehension
b) operations, contents, products
Components of Effective Interviewing
- Establish rapport
- Facilitate communication
- formulate appropriate questions
- remain objective yet empathic
- be a good listener
- close the interview appropriately (summarize, feedback, implications)
Structured Interview
- standardized interviews yielding information about presence, absence, severity, onset, and duration of symptoms
- yield quantitative scores in symptom areas or global indices of psychopathology
- disorder specific under category of DSM-IV (ADHD, ODD, Major Depressive Disorder, Eating Disorder, etc)
Unstructured Interview
- interviewee tells his/her story
- interviewer guides interviewee to talk about issues & concerns related to referral problem
- requires good clinical skills
- can be used to identify general problem areas, then follow up with structured interview
Computer-generated interview
- software used to present uniform questions to all persons
- child/adult sees and hears questions
- can be a novel experience
Cons of computer generated interview
disadvantages: unfamiliar computer may become anxious, format is impersonal, may be technical difficulties with hardware
Purpose of observations
- evaluation, planning intervention, and monitoring progress
- opportunity to see spontaneous behaviors
- systematic record of behavior
- information about interpersonal skills
- information about goodness of fit to teaching style and learning style
- part of FBA
Systematic observations
- define target behavior precisely
- list examples of target behavior
- observe behavior in natural or designed settings
- record data objectively as it occurs
- understand behavioral codes, if applicable
- sustain attention & focus on details
- identify important behaviors & summarize
Narrative recording observation
- anecdotal recording of noteworthy behaviors
- no specific time frames or codes
Interval recording observation
- focuses on aspects of behavior as occurring within specific intervals of time
- sample behavior rather than recording every behavior
- useful for overt behaviors
event recording observation
- record each event of behavior as it occurs during observation period
- frequency count of discrete behavior
rating recording observation
- rating behavior on a checklist or scale
- useful for evaluating global aspects of behavior or for gaining impressions
momentary time sampling recording
-observer records whether behavior occurs or at beginning of each interval
partial interval recording
observer records whether behavior occurs at any time during interval
whole interval recording
observer records whether behavior occurs throughout the entire interval
latency recording
observer records how long it takes for behavior to begin after a specific verbal demand or event has occurred
