Which of the following helps students anticipate the relationship between their prior
knowledge and the new material they must master?
A. Advance organizers
B. Universal Design for Learning
C. Priority organizers
D. Cognitive organizers
Families experience better emotional well-being when they have friends or others who
provide support, the support they need to relieve stress, outside help available to take
care of the special needs of all family members, and:
A. Good relationships with schools
B. Time to pursue their own interests
C. Good income level
D. Good communication skills
Informal measures used to determine students’ skill levels include all of the following
except:
A. Teacher observations
B. Evaluation of needed prompt levels
C. Curriculum-based tests
D. Parent interviews
Exposure to cigarette smoke, lead, and alcohol are which of the following
environmental causes/factors of ADHD?
A. Prenatal
B. Perinatal
C. Genetic
D. Biological
Blaming the academic failure of students from diverse backgrounds on the inherent
disadvantages that existed within their own cultures is associated with:
A. Cultural deficit theory
B. Eugenics
C. Cultural difference
D. Genetic deficit theory
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
The most common form of progress monitoring of students with hearing loss is:
A. Language assessment
B. Literacy assessment
C. Academic skills assessment
D. Functional skills assessment
Each of the following is an appropriate assessment accommodation for students with
language disorders except:
A. Provide the students with additional time to take the test
B. Change multiple choice items to essay items
C. Provide visual supports
D. Allow the students to use a word processor
Sharing power, fostering empowerment, and providing options are elements of:
A. Commitment
B. Advocacy
C. Equality
D. Respect
Memory strategies that help students learn and retain information are:
A. Keyed strategies
B. Pegboard strategies
C. Repetition strategies
D. Mnemonic strategies
Second-grade teacher Mrs. Grimes teaches in a diverse classroom with students from
various cultures, socioeconomic levels, and linguistic levels. She is a keen observer of
language in her classroom. Which of the following students in Mrs. Grime’s classroom
shows an example of someone having difficulty with pragmatics?
A. Jose mispronounces his ‘s” so that it sounds like “th.”
B. Jill requests a crayon by saying, “Give it to me now!”
C. John says, “I know answer!”
D. Joan says “doggy” when she sees any animal with four legs.
What does the “A” in the ABCD goal format stand for?
A. Audience
B. Antecedent
C. Action
D. Auxiliary Services
Positive behavior support seeks to tailor students’ environments to their strengths,
needs, and which of the following?
A. Differences
B. Preferences
C. Family structure
D. Cultural background
Which of the following refers to the time of onset of the disability as being before
birth?
A. Prenatal
B. Perinatal
C. Postnatal
D. Perinatal
Which of the following defines the level of achievement that students must meet to
demonstrate proficiency in the subjects?
A. Academic content standards
B. The general education curriculum
C. Student achievement standards
D. Alternative achievement standards
Considering the quality and nature of students’ replies and work to determine if they are
mastering content is:
A. Adequate processing time
B. Frequent student responses
C. Appropriate instructional pacing
D. Monitoring responses
Sally’s parents both work to support their family. They do not attend Sally’s
conferences, IEP meetings, or other school functions because they say they cannot spare
the time. The teachers feel it is very important for Sally’s parents to be more involved in
her education. What can the teachers tell Sally’s parents to help them understand that
their participation is needed?
A. Tell the parents that Sally cannot continue in special education unless they attend the
IEP meeting.
B. Tell the parents that Sally cannot continue in the school unless they become
involved.
C. Explain that Sally’s school success and family quality of life will improve if they can
participate.
D. Ask Sally’s older sibling to attend meetings and school functions.
Which statement about standardized testing of students with disabilities is TRUE?
A. Few students with disabilities actually receive any accommodations in assessment
and testing.
B. Most students with disabilities are not able to take state accountability assessments,
even with assessments.
C. IDEA does not allow for the creation of alternative assessments.
D. Students with the most significant cognitive deficits may take alternative
assessments.
Many school psychologists use which measure to determine the presence of ADHD?
A. Attention Deficit Disorders Evaluation Scales
B. Conner’s Rating Scales
C. Peterson’s Rating Scales
D. ADHD Assessment Tool
Which of the following teaches children with intellectual disabilities who do not speak
to make frequent, clear requests or comments with gestures or sounds while looking at
the person with whom they are communicating?
A. The self-determined learning model
B. Community-based instruction
C. Prelinguistic milieu teaching
D. Universal design for learning
Which of the following is the result of the combination of mastery learning and a
good-behavior game?
A. Family-school partnership
B. Classroom-centered intervention
C. Service learning
D. Cognitive-behavior therapy
The use of data-based decision techniques is:
A. IEP-linked body of evidence
B. Performance assessment
C. Rubrics
D. Portfolio-based alternative assessment
Temperament refers to behavioral tendencies that are which of the following?
A. Biologically based
B. Environmentally based
C. Experientially based
D. Socially based
Abnormal posture; abnormal movements of the face, head, trunk, and limbs; abnormal
eye movements; repeated gestures and mannerisms; and awkward gait are
characteristics of which of the following?
A. Sensory disorders
B. Behavior disorders
C. Intellectual disorders
D. Movement disorders
Asthma attacks that occur two or fewer days per week or two or fewer nights in a
month are:
A. Mild persistent
B. Intermittent
C. Moderate persistent
D. Severe
Transition programs are effective when students with intellectual disabilities achieve
each of the following except:
A. Are integrated into and participate in their community
B. Learn work-related skills
C. Live in a group home or institution
D. Engage in a full array of leisure activities
Principle components of collaborative teaming include each of the following except:
A. Building team structure
B. Learning teamwork skills
C. Taking individual action
D. Improving communication
Two tests that could be used to identify a student as having intellectual disabilities are
which of the following?
A. WISC-IV and the Adaptive Behavior Scale
B. WJ Cognitive Battery and WJ Tests of Achievement
C. MMPI and Meyers-Briggs
D. Stanford-Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
Jacqui is a well-behaved ninth grader who is reading four grade levels below the rest of
the ninth-grade class. Mr. Atom, the science teacher, wants to include her with the rest
of the class, but he is unsure how to accommodate Jacqui due to her reading disability.
Which of the following suggests an inappropriate accommodation for Jacqui?
A. Pair Jacqui with a lab partner who can help with reading, but hold Jacqui
accountable for completing the labs and writing up her results.
B. Allow Jacqui to complete easier science labs from the fifth grade science book
because this book is at her reading level.
C. Provide Jacqui with audiotapes of the labs and textbook chapters, so she may listen
to them at her convenience.
D. Allow Jacqui to have her science tests read orally, or allow her to use technologies
that “read” print for her.
Enrichment refers to each of the following elements except:
A. Adding instruction on disciplines not found in the typical curriculum
B. Using more challenging material
C. Using an expanded range of instructional strategies
D. Compacting the curriculum to get past already-mastered material
Three ways that IDEA allows agencies to determine the presence of learning disabilities
are through each of these ways except which one?
A. Discrepancy model
B. Scientific, research based interventions
C. Other alternative research based procedures
D. Report card grades
How much more likely than students from families with incomes in the bottom 20% are
students from families with incomes in the top 20% to have intellectual disabilities?
A. 10 times more likely
B. 4 times more likely
C. Twice as likely
D. 8 times more likely
Abrupt, involuntary movements of the head, neck, face, and extremities, particularly the
upper torso, are involved in which type of cerebral palsy?
A. Mixed
B. Spastic
C. Dyskinetic
D. Athetoid
Approximately what percentage of states reporting indicated they use wraparound
services?
A. 88
B. 95
C. 75
D. 66
Describe the process of mastery learning or mastery training instruction.
Identify the four key characteristics of inclusion.
Discuss the importance of collaboration when providing services for students with
communication disorders in the context of facilitative language strategies.
What are the causes of multiple disabilities?
What are some of the protections educators must follow to conduct nondiscriminatory
evaluations of students with disabilities?
Describe incidental learning and its challenges for students with visual impairments.
Describe the Circle of Friends.
Identify the functional domains of a classroom observation checklist for students with
TBI and give 2 examples of problems in each domain.
Explain social stories and the different types of sentences used in them.
What is curriculum compacting?
Explain the possible impact of removing such designations like Asperger syndrome.
What is meant by your textbook authors’ statement: “There is no such thing as a typical
student with learning disabilities”? How does this relate to characteristics of students
with learning disabilities?
Describe supplementary aids and services in your own words and explain how they
facilitate inclusion in general education settings.
Explain how doctors make the determination of TBI.
List the six types of anxiety disorder.
What is the purpose of PTIs, CPRCs, P2P, and F2F HICs?
Describe the schoolwide enrichment model.
Describe three school- and classroom-level actions that teachers can control to promote
student progress in the general education classroom.
Summarize the causes of speech and language disorders.
What is the focus of early childhood education and how does collecting “tangible
memories” facilitate this?