Which of the following determines whether any student, with or without a disability,
needs more intensive instruction?
A. Response to intervention
B. Universal Design for Learning
C. Alternative assessment
D. Positive behavior supports
White students and which of the following are overrepresented in gifted programs?
A. American Indian/Alaska Native students
B. Hispanic students
C. Asian/Pacific Islander students
D. Black students
Each statement about children living in poverty is true except:
A. 63% of children living in poverty live with a single parent.
B. The achievement gap in reading between high and low income children has
increased by 40 percent over the last three decades
C. Four times as many students who experience poverty do not graduate from high
school as compared to peers who have never been poor
D. Homelessness is not highly correlated with poverty.
Parenting is a domain of family quality of life that includes each of the following
EXCEPT:
A. Talking openly with each other
B. Helping child learn to be independent
C. Helping child with schoolwork
D. Making time to care for the needs of each child
Three areas in which a teacher can differentiate are curricular content, instructional
process, and:
A. Product requirements
B. Homework length
C. Problem-solving steps
D. Advanced organizers
An example of working memory is:
A. Storing information
B. Reading in an automatic fashion
C. Remembering facts
D. The ability to preserve some information while processing other information
Voice reflects the interactive relationship of pitch, duration, intensity, resonance and
which of the following?
A. Volume
B. Vocal quality
C. Fluency
D. Tempo
A student who uses two languages equally well is considered to be:
A. Bilingual
B. Bidialectal
C. Multilingual
D. Multidialectal
Which of the following is a known cause of ADHD in children?
A. Structural differences in the brain
B. Dietary issues such as too much sugar
C. Prenatal exposure to cigarette smoke, lead, and alcohol
D. Watching too much television
Accommodations like reassuring the student gently, meeting with the parents to find out
how the child likes to communicate, and being on the alert for frustration or anger and
modifying expectations during those times are particularly good for students who:
A. Display inattention
B. Are impulsive
C. Have mood characteristics
D. Have difficulty complying
Which of the following involves providing visual and/or audio cues to support students
to regulate their own behavior and to complete assigned tasks?
A. Self-instruction strategies
B. Student-directed learning strategies
C. Antecedent cue regulation
D. Task analysis
Which of the following requires the teacher to accumulate permanent products that
exemplify the student’s work?
A. Portfolio-based assessment
B. Formative analysis
C. Summative analysis
D. Field observation
A disability that affects both the legs and arms but the legs more than the arms is:
A. Diplegia
B. Paraplegia
C. Quadriplegia
D. Hemiplegia
The majority of students with spina bifida have intelligence measured in the:
A. Low average range
B. Average range
C. High average range
D. Low range
Which component of school functional assessment evaluates students’ involvement in
school activities and environments?
A. Participation
B. Task supports
C. Activity performance
D. Academic achievement
One way of assessing students individually during cooperative learning activities is to:
A. Watch the group to see who is working
B. Have the students rate each others’ performance
C. Assign each student a discrete task that contributes to the whole group
D. Individual assessment is not appropriate for cooperative learning activities
What percent of students with emotional or behavioral problems spend 80-100% of
their time in general education settings?
A. 60%
B. 20%
C. 80%
D. 40%
Assigning three to six students who are gifted and talented to the same general
education classroom so that they can work together is:
A. Cluster grouping
B. All-school enrichment program
C. Accelerative method
D. Enrichment
Teaching children to use their remaining hearing is:
A. Total communication
B. Oral training
C. Aural habilitation
D. Hearing rehabilitation
Under IDEA, a student who cannot learn the same content as same-age peers who do
not have disabilities, and who cannot take the state assessment even with
accommodations, is required to:
A. Take an alternate assessment
B. Take the standard assessment
C. Be exempt from all assessment
D. Be excused from school
A computer records automatic (involuntary) responses from the cochlea to clicks or
tones in:
A. Evoked otoacoustic emissions
B. Tympanography
C. Audiometry
D. Behavioral audiological evaluations
Which of the following involves integrating civics and real life applications?
A. Service learning
B. Classroom-centered intervention
C. Check and Connect
D. Mediation
Risk factors that have been identified to possibly cause intellectual disabilities include
each of the following except which one?
A. Biomedical factors
B. Social factors
C. Behavioral factors
D. Family factors
A scale developed by a teacher as a guide to scoring a student’s performance should
focus on:
A. Outcomes rather than a process
B. Process rather than outcomes
C. Only tasks the student can complete easily
D. State standards
Parent training and information centers (PTIs) help families do each of the following
EXCEPT:
A. Understand the nature of disabilities
B. Communicate with educators
C. Serve as a resource for quality health care
D. Know their rights and responsibilities
Following a routine schedule, keeping appointments, taking medications, remembering
to perform a new task, and marking when to start or end a task are uses for:
A. A TBI classroom observation checklist
B. An interim IEP
C. Electronic memory aids
D. A classroom aide
The capacity to use a sound system of language to process oral and written
communication is:
A. Language
B. Phonological processing
C. Dyslexia
D. Phonics
Which of the following seizures, once known as grand mal, causes the student to lose
consciousness and go through rigid extensions and rhythmic contractions of
extremities?
A. Partial
B. Semiconscious
C. Absence
D. Tonic-clonic
A model of instruction that includes spending part of the day in traditional subjects and
part in the community, exploring when to apply knowledge and skills is:
A. Community-based instruction
B. Project-oriented learning
C. Project-based instruction
D. Community-oriented learning
Which of the following statements about parents’ participation in homework is TRUE?
A. Many students with disabilities do not rely on their parents for help.
B. Students with disabilities are five times as likely as their nondisabled peers to get
frequent homework assistance.
C. Students without disabilities receive more homework assistance than those with
disabilities.
D. There may be less stress between the parent-child relationships for parents who help
their children with homework.
Written agreements between a student and teacher that describe the outcomes of student
learning are:
A. Learning contracts
B. Behavioral contracts
C. Teaching contracts
D. Instructional contracts
Which of the following is not criteria for ADHD under APA definition?
A. Be present in at least two settings
B. Occur before age 12
C. Attributed to another disability
D. Persist for greater than six months
Universal design for learning promotes multiple means of representing content;
multiple means of action and expression for students to demonstrate knowledge; and:
A. Multiple means of engagement
B. Multiple means of grading
C. Multiple means of questioning
D. Multiple means of assessment
Which of the following students are most likely to be educated in the general education
classroom?
A. Students with learning disabilities and severe intellectual disabilities
B. Students with learning disabilities and other health impairments
C. Students with emotional or behavioral disorders, multiple disabilities, and deaf
blindness
D. Students with hearing impairments, visual impairments, and deaf-blindness
Each of the following is a part of the definition of emotional disturbance except:
A. An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health
factors
B. An inability in one or more of the basic psychological processes
C. Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings
D. A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression
Best estimates indicate that how many students have a visual disorder that interferes
with learning?
A. 1 or 2 in 1,000
B. 3 or 5 in 100
C. 1 or 2 in 100
D. 3 or 5 in 1,000
Supplementary aids and services include each of the following EXCEPT:
A. Extracurricular activities
B. Adaptive seating
C. Assistive technology
D. Instructional modifications
When a teacher takes a student’s hand to model a piece of clay it is a:
A. Verbal prompt
B. Visual prompt
C. Discriminatory
D. Physical prompt
Achieving goals at school or work, making progress at home, and making friends are
aspects of which domain?
A. Disability-related support
B. Parenting
C. Family interaction
D. Physical/material well-being
A frequently used method of RTI used to track progress in reading, writing, spelling,
and math for students with disabilities is:
A. Response to intervention
B. Curriculum-based measurement
C. Nonbiased assessment
D. Differentiated instruction
Which of the following focuses on implementing instructional approaches that match
the strengths and needs of each gifted learner and offers opportunities for individualized
responses?
A. Acceleration
B. Compacting the curriculum
C. Curriculum extension
D. Differentiated instruction
Allowing students varying times to respond, taking into account their processing
capacity and giving some students more “think” time than others, is which of the
following?
A. Adequate processing time
B. Frequent student responses
C. Appropriate instructional pacing
D. Monitoring responses
Writing reports, taking exams, portfolios, drawings, performances, oral reports, and
videotaped reports are examples of:
A. Multiple means of engagement
B. Multiple means of action and expression
C. Multiple means of representing content
D. Multiple means of questioning
How many morphemes does the word “bills” have?
A. 4
B. 3
C. 2
D. 1
A program for reducing dropout rate that includes mentoring, regular checking of
progress, and partnering with families is:
A. Check and Connect
B. Wraparound
C. Multimodal learning
D. KidTools
Which of the following addresses the top 20 percent of students in the school through
special-interest groups, specialized instruction in small groups, and mentoring on
individual projects?
A. Cluster grouping
B. All-school enrichment program
C. Accelerative method
D. Enrichment
The act which seeks to mandate accountability for performance regarding people with
disabilities is which of the following?
A. The ESEA
B. ADA
C. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
D. The Tech Act
Define adaptive behavior and list its three domains.
Explain social stories and the different types of sentences used in them.
Briefly describe three emotional and social characteristics associated with many
students with learning disabilities.
Explain partial participation and why it is important.
Describe a token economy system and its uses.
How can you as a teacher achieve a high level in the professional competence domain
of partnerships?
Describe the emotional, behavioral, and social changes of students with TBI.
Describe the Apgar test and how it is used.
Describe supplementary aids and services in your own words and explain how they
facilitate inclusion in general education settings.
How do race/ethnicity, language, and poverty intersect to affect classification of
students into special education categories (i.e., how do the 6 ecological layers influence
provision of education) and what term describes how educators need to deal with this
problem?
Define self-awareness and list 4 strategies to promote it.
Describe pros and cons of using education interpreters (include the inverted pyramid of
responsibility in your description).
What is the concept of universal design and how does it apply to education (give
examples of UD and of UDL)?
What is curriculum mapping?
Explain the inclusionary and exclusionary standards for defining specific learning
disabilities.
Discuss the importance of collaboration when providing services for students with
communication disorders in the context of facilitative language strategies.
What does “progress in the general education curriculum” mean? (Describe three
practices or laws that essentially require that progress.)
List 5 tips for improving homework completion.
Describe the autonomous learner model and tell why it is useful for students who are
gifted.
Describe repetitive and problem behaviors exhibited by some students with autism and
suggest possible explanations for those behaviors.