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Pre-Assessment Measure 1-EDU 310/610—Teaching and Assessing Children with Disabilities
1)Accessing what you know in general about a topic(prior knowledge) is useful when
a)Students need to learn something new
b)Remembering content from a previous lesson
c)The topic covered is something students already know
d)The student has not yet experienced the material and brainstorms about it
2)"wait time" for students refers to
a)time that gives students time to daydream
b)time that gives students time to construct a response
c)time that gives students time to cool down when angry
d)time when students line up wait for teacher
3)A learning activity is an example of
a)Conceptual and context reduced activity
b)A conceptual and context-embedded activity
c)A surface-language form of learning
d)A cooperative form of learning
4)In promoting reading comprehension, which of the following would best apply
a)Comprehension precedes production
b)Teachers should focus on reading accuracy before reading fluency
c)Teachers should focus on reading fluency before accuracy
d)Reading decoding facilitates comprehension
5)A relevant unit of cultural knowledge for educational settings is
a)Knowledge about the differences between traditions and language
b)Traits of cultural groups such as Hispanics, African-Americans, etc.
c)Knowledge about the differences between cultural groups (Hispanics v. African-Americans, etc.)
d)Knowledge about learners’ family and community traditions
6)A context-reduced language form associated with the surface features of language would include
a)Reading a novel
b)Having a talk with a student about his work
c)A lab experiment
d)Studying a blue print
7)Differentiating instruction means to
a)Alter curriculum to meet the needs of individual students
b)Alter your teaching to expect different outcomes from students
c)Teach the same concept or content so that everyone can access it/them
d)Teach differently when your lessons don’t work
8)Individualized instruction contrasts with differentiated instruction in that
a)Ind. I. is for students with disabilities and Diff. I. is for all students
b)Diff. I alters the curriculum and Ind. I. alters the instruction
c)Diff. I. addresses different student needs for the same content and Ind. I. addresses individual needs for the individual’s needed content
d)Ind. I. is no different than Diff. I.; they are the same thing
9)Externalizing behaviors exhibited by EBD students can include the following except:
a)Acting out
b)Lack of attention
c)Withdrawal
d)Aggression
10)The dropout rate for students with emotional and behavior disorders is approximately:
a)25 %
b)50 %
c)30 %
d)73 %
11)Under current law and consistent with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), all students with disabilities are
a)Allowed to be removed from state accountability assessments
b)Required to participate in state accountability and assessment systems
c)Required to participate up 1% of entire population
d)Allowed to take modified academic assessments up to 10% of all students
12)An operational definition consists of
a)Definitions of behaviors that allow two or more observers to identify and/or measure the specified events/actions in the same way.
b)Defining a target to act upon
c)Determining the priority for a target behavior
d)Determining the conditions, actions, and consequences associated with the objective for a desired behavior