The first step in designing an instructional game is to determine the purpose of the
game. Which of the following choices is the second step?
A) To select an activity students are unfamiliar with.
B) To provide a sense of competition among students.
C) To provide an activity in which students work cooperatively towards a single goal.
D) To select and adapt a game that can be used to practice a skill or review knowledge.
Which of the following statements about readability formulas is NOT true?
A) Sentence complexity as measured by sentence length.
B) Paragraph difficulty is measured by the number of sentences in a paragraph.
C) Word difficulty as indexed by word length or frequency.
D) Assessing the lexile level of the text is frequently used for determining the reading
level.
Ms. Salamon is teaching her third-grade students a geography lesson. She has several
words she would like to arrange in a relationship chart. Which word should be a
subordinate concept in relation to continent?
A) World
B) France
C) Asia
D) United States
Which of the following choices is NOT true about why families are so involved in
special education?
A) It ensures cooperation between home and school.
B) It allows them to more easily exploit any flaws in the program to receive more
benefits for their child.
C) It ensures that families will have access to information about student evaluations and
records.
D) It allows them to better monitor appropriate placement and programming by the
school.
When working with culturally and linguistically diverse students, which of the
following strategies would NOT be representative of an effective teacher?
A) Having high expectations of their students
B) Seeing themselves as a member of the community
C) Displaying a sense of confidence in their ability to succeed with students who are
culturally and linguistically diverse
D) Reminding students that the classroom is no place for their first language and
discouraging its use in school
Which of the following statements is NOT one of the objectives of a modified language
experience approach?
A) To teach the concept that text and talk are two separate entities
B) To teach the metalinguistic skills of sentence and word segmentation
C) To teach left-to-right progression
D) To teach use of semantic and syntactic clues
When assessing student progress, designing interventions, and interpreting English
language learners’ responses to intervention, all of the following should be considered
EXCEPT:
A) second language acquisition
B) best practices for English language learners (ELLs)
C) the student’s IQ
D) cultural variations
Which type of context clue can be used to determine the meaning of “gregarious” in this
sentence? “The husband and wife were very different. Al was reserved and shy but
Sophie was quite gregarious.”
A) Definition
B) Synonym
C) Description
D) Contrast
Many mental health professionals recommend an integrated approach to working with
students with learning disabilities and behavior disorders. All of the following are true
EXCEPT:
A) All families who have children with learning and behavior problems need
therapeutic assistance.
B) An integrated approach typically involves all or part of the family in the program.
C) An initial meeting could be held with the entire family.
D) Family involvement could include selected family members.
In regards to communication, students with mild intellectual disabilities generally do all
of the following EXCEPT:
A) Initiate conflicts less often.
B) Take on a respondent role.
C) Use higher level conflict initiating strategies less often.
D) Begin classroom arguments more often.
Johnny tries to write the word bed but writes it incorrectly. Given the closeness of
certain vowels in the vowel space, what would be the most likely mistake?
A) Bade
B) Bood
C) Bide
D) Bad
Which of the following choices is NOT a standard use for a progress graph?
A) Silent reading rate
B) Speed in completing math facts
C) Percentage of questions answer correctly for an assignment
D) Students’ grades in core subjects
Which statement is NOT true about teacher assistance teams?
A) They discuss ways to promote successful learning and behavior for students with
learning and behavior needs.
B) They are school-based teams that assist teachers in meeting individual students’
needs.
C) They are made up exclusively of special education teachers.
D) They work at with all grade levels and content areas.
Which of the following choices is NOT a key practice for scaffolding instruction?
A) Initially provide more teacher support and then fade support as a student’s
proficiency increases.
B) Avoid using questions to guide instruction and feedback.
C) Increase transfer of independent learning.
D) Use diagnostic strategies to inform instruction.
Which of the following statements about social learning and interactive dialog is NOT
true?
A) Learning is a social event.
B) Teachers perform no form of modeling.
C) Teachers and students discuss what they are learning.
D) Teachers and students discuss how they are going about learning.
Which of the following plays a critical role in determining how effectively students will
comprehend and retain any information and vocabulary presented?
A) Advance organizers.
B) Background knowledge.
C) Morphemic analysis.
D) Context analysis.
Self-monitoring procedures have been used for students who have learning and
behavior problems by providing all EXCEPT which of the following choices?
A) Prompts to remind the student to self-monitor
B) Lower expectations for students who self-monitor
C) Encouragement to self-monitor
D) Modeling for how to self-monitor
Mrs. Moore’s class was learning about the skeletal system and discovered where the
smallest bone in the body is located. Students were instructed to ask their parents if they
knew where it was. This is an example of
A) Response to intervention.
B) Using newly learned language concepts in a variety of environments.
C) A scavenger hunt.
D) Second language acquisition.
Kendra is a kindergarten student who is asked to sort food by fruits and vegetables and
then asked to sort those groups by size. After that, she has to make a list of how many
items are in each pile. This activity involves all of the following skills EXCEPT:
A) Classification
B) Seriation
C) Estimation
D) Basic counting
Once a month, the RTI team at Live Oak Elementary meets to discuss the progress of
struggling students by analyzing progress monitoring data. Students are moved among
Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 instruction based on their results of progress monitoring
measures. Error analysis of specific measures is performed to determine where students
are struggling. Instructional strategies are discussed and suggestions for modifications
are presented if certain students are not progressing. This school is most likely using
which approach in making instructional decisions?
A) Standard treatment protocol
B) Problem-solving model
C) Report card grade protocol
D) Cognitive-behavioral model
In the RTI model, students who make expected academic gain are said to ________
instruction.
A) like
B) respond to
C) benefit from
D) exceed
Self-determination refers to:
A) An individual’s motivation to succeed.
B) An individual’s ability or opportunity to make important decisions about his or her
own life.
C) An individual’s optimism about the future.
D) An individual’s emotional well-being.
The following are all instructional strategies used to teach spelling EXCEPT:
A) Five-step word study strategy.
B) Visualization approach.
C) Graphic organizers.
D) Test-study-test.
Mr. Ferro is about to start a unit on the American Revolution. He has several students
with learning disabilities in his class and some students who are English language
learners. What is his first step in getting ready to teach the chapter?
A) Have the students make predictions about what will happen in the chapter.
B) Instruct the students to make graphic organizers of the framework of the chapter.
C) Select the major concepts and related vocabulary to be taught.
D) Have the students preview the chapter.
All of the following are critical points about teaching conventions EXCEPT:
A) Focus on writing conventions facilitates writing.
B) Even young children should be taught writing and spelling conventions.
C) Reserve about 20% of the instructional time of students with learning and behavior
problems for teaching writing conventions.
D) Writing conventions should be less emphasized for students with LD because they
have negative associations with writing.
Which of the following statements about Reading Mastery and Corrective Reading is
true?
A) They incorporate student-led activities.
B) They are scripted for the teacher.
C) They are built on principles of implicit instruction.
D) They emphasize syntax and semantics as a way to decode text.
Which of the following choices is a previously neutral behavior that is paired with a
reinforcer and therefore takes on reinforcing properties of its own?
A) An antecedent
B) A negative reinforcer
C) A positive reinforcer
D) A secondary reinforcer
The following are benefits of productive teacher and student-led conversations:
A) Student “talk-time”
B) Open-ended questions
C) Higher-level thinking
D) Removal of undesirable behaviors
Many special education teachers work with general education teachers at least what
percentage of time?
A) 10%
B) 75%
C) 98%
D) 50%
There are many models or frameworks for implementing RTI, such as:
A) Individualized education programs
B) State-wide standardized assessment
C) A problem-solving model using research-based practices or a standardized approach
using research-based interventions
D) Progress monitoring
What percentage of students with specific learning disabilities spend at least 80 percent
of the day in a regular education classroom?
A) 12 percent
B) 28 percent
C) 59 percent
D) 62 percent