Pre-Assessment Measure 6EDU 310/610 Teaching and Assessing Children with Disabilities

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Pre-Assessment Measure 6EDU 310/610—Teaching and Assessing Children with Disabilities

1)Children with Autism comprise approximately what percentage of children by age 8 (source CDC, 2014)?

a)6% to 22%

b)7% to 20%

c)0.6% to 2.2%

d)4% to 5%

2)Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA), and Functional Analysis are

a)Synonymous terms

b)Mutually exclusive terms

c)Symbiotic terms

d)A framework

3)Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is best determined

a)Through FBA

b)Functional Pre-assessment in the classroom

c)Unable to be determined in the classroom

d)By licensed special educators with ASD training

4)A primary focus of instruction for students with ASD in the regular classroom is likely

a)Use of validated interventions for improving student learning in the general curriculum

b)Gains in social development

c)To support the desires of parents

d)To make sure all students learn to interact with diverse peers

5)Asperger’s Syndrome contrasts with other forms of ASD in that

a)Asperger’s assumes no cognitive delay

b)AS is not pervasive

c)AS is no longer recognized as a syndrome

d)AS can be diagnosed in the classroom whereas ASD is clinical diagnosis

6)The article by Shyman (2012) “Teacher Education in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A potential blueprint” is best characterized as

a)A review of literature

b)An empirical study

c)An opinion

d)A “How to” article

7)When a student in a classroom receives a blow to the head, an appropriate definition of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) to use in this instance for would be

a)An acquired injury to the brain resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment, or both, that adversely affects a child's educational performance

b)A bump, blow, or penetrating injury to the head that disrupts normal brain function

c)Depends whether or not the head wound is an open or closed (blunt force)

d)Only if the injury affects “language; memory; attention; reasoning; abstract thinking; judgment; problem-solving; sensory, perceptual, and motor abilities; psychosocial behavior; physical functions; information processing; and speech.”

8)“Mental retardation” or Cognitive/developmental delay is primarily based on difficulties with

a)Intellectual disability

b)Information processing disability

c)Significantly sub-average intellectual functioning

d)Adaptive functioning

9)A designation of multiple disabilities is defined in IDEA as Two or more

a)contingent disabilities

b)consecutive disabilities

c)concomitant disabilities

d)previous disabilities

10)A study like that of Bortoli, et al (2012) that involves transcription, management, and analysis of interview data from teacher perceptions would be an example of a(n)

a)Qualitative empirical study

b)Causal/comparative experimental study

c)quasi-experimental with a control group study

d)A Case Study

11)Curriculum-based measurement (CBM) contrasts with General Outcomes Measurement (GOM) in that

a)CBM is synonymous with GOM

b)GOM measures general learner outcomes and CBM measure curriculum

c)GOM and CBM are a part of a system of classroom-based assessment approaches

d)GOM is validated and CBM is not

12)On the whole, the Bortoli, et al (2012) study indicated that

a)Students with intellectual disabilities benefited from CBM

b)CBM neither improves nor hinders outcomes

c)CBM improves general outcomes

d)CBM hinders general outcomes