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EDSP622 Assessment and Evaluation in Special Education

Quiz Introduction to Basics of Assessment

Question 1By the early 1950s

   Special education services and programs were available in school districts, but often, undesirable results occurred

 Students in special classes were often considered unable to perform academic tasks.

 Students in special classes went to special schools or classes that focused on learning manual skills such as weaving and bead stringing.

All of the above

Question 2An acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functioning disability or psychosocial impairment or both is called:

Autism

Traumatic Brain Injury

 Emotional disturbance

 Speech and language disorder

Question 3The 14th amendment of the United States is called

The equal protection clause

The necessary and proper clause

 The voting rights amendment

 Freedom speech amendment

Question 4The measurement of the presence of a suspected disability and the knowledge of the criteria that constitute each category is called:

   Collection

 Analysis

 Evaluation

 Determination

 Question 5Asthma, epilepsy, lead poisoning and diabetes are examples of disorders which would most likely receive a classification of:

Autism

 Learning disability

 Emotional disturbance

 Other Health Impairment

 Question 6Section 504 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act is a civil rights law enacted in

1973

1980

1990

 1993

Question 7Which of the following involves a test-train-retest approach?

Ecological assessment

 Dynamic assessment

 Task analysis

Learning styles assessment

 Question 8A _____ is a starting point that represents the level of mastery of a task below which the student would correctly answer all items on a test:

Basal

Ceiling

Neither a nor b

Question 9A thorough ecological assessment should include:

Interaction between students, teachers and others in the classroom

 Presentation of materials and ideas

 Selection and use of materials for instruction

 All of the above

Question 10In the distribution 9,11,9,15, and 20, what is the mode?

9

11

15

20

Question 11If the standard deviation of a distribution is 6, then the variance is

2.31

30

 36

66

  Question 12For the following distribution, 30, 50, 45, 50, 25, 40, 10, 55, 65, 20, 60, 33, 45, 33, 20, the range is:

50

61

55

 75

Question 13Which of the following is/are greatly affected by an extreme score?

Mean

Range

Mean and Range

Neither the mean nor the range

Question 14The ________ of a distribution is the difference between the high score and the low score in the distribution.

Mean

Median

Mode

Range

Question 15In a ________ skewed distribution the majority of scores fall below the mean.

Positively

Negatively

Both positively and negatively

Neither positively nor negatively

Question 16A _________ correlation has an indirect relationship between the variables:

Positive

Negative

Zero

Question 17Correlations tell us the _________ between two variables.

Range

   Standard deviation

Variance

Relationship

Question 18T scores have a mean of _____ with a standard deviation of 10.

15

50

75

95

Question 19A T score of 30 on a test puts a student:

1 standard deviation above the mean on the test

2 standard deviations above the mean on the test

1 standard deviation below the mean on the test

2 standard deviations below the mean on the test

Question 20The formula for _______ is 50 + 10z

z scores

T scores

Stanines

None of the above

Question 21A _______ is a type of standard score that has a mean of 5 and a standard deviation of 2.

z scores

 T scores

 Stanine

None of the above

  Question 22_________ have a mean of 50 with a standard deviation of 10.

z scores

 T scores

Stanines

 None of the above

 Question 23A percentile rank of 40 means that you did as well as or better than _______ percent of the students in the class.

60

 15

40

 95

 Question 24A student is tested on June 4th, 2008. His date of birth is March 3, 1997. His age at the time of testing is:

   11-3-1

 11-2-18

 11-4-18

 

11-2-28

Question 25A student who scored 1.5 standard deviations below the mean would have a T score of:

   65

55

45

35

Question 26On IQ tests with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 (e.g. The Wechsler Scales) a score of 85 would be in the classification:

Low Average

Average

 High Average

 Superior

 Question 27A student who scored 2 standard deviations above the mean would have a T score of:

65

70

 75

30

Question 28_________ is for students who are falling behind same-age peers and need additional, targeted interventions to meet grade-level expectations. The goal is to accelerate learning for students who need more intensive support.

Tier I

Tier II

Tier III

All of the above

Question 29Which of the following is not the purpose of RTI?

   RTI is intended to reduce the incidence of "instructional casualties" by ensuring that students are provided high quality instruction with fidelity.

   By using RTI, districts can provide interventions to students as soon as a need arises.

 RTI is very similar to the methods associated with the aptitude achievement discrepancy models traditionally utilized for SLD identification.

 

  

All of the above are purposes of RTI

Question 30A _________ is a synopsis of the child's work and behavior in the classroom sent home to the parents in order to keep them updated on the child's strengths and weaknesses over a period of time (e.g. every day, each week, each month, etc.).

Progress report

Standard score

Teacher conference

Scaled data analysis

Question 31Which of the following should the CST examine?

   Number of Schools Attended by a student

Prior Teacher Referrals

Medical History in the School Nurse's Office

All of the above

Question 32Which of the following is normally a member of the CST?

Special Education Teacher

Guidance Counselor

Speech and Language Teacher

 All of the above

 Question 33Meeting the parent(s) is _______ recommended for a child having some difficulty in school.

Never

 Not very often

Highly

 Question 34Which symptom might indicate that an updated vision examination may be necessary for a child?

Child suffers frequent headaches

 Child avoids close work of any type

 Child covers an eye when reading

 Child consistently loses place when reading

All of the above might indicate that an updated vision examination may be necessary for a child

Question 35Informal screening tools may include:

Abbreviated intelligence tests or selected subtests

 

Informal reading inventories

 Selected subtests of achievement

 Checklists

All of the above

 Question 36_________ refers to consistency of test results.

Validity

Reliability

Neither a nor b

Both a and b

Question 37An objective of a psychological assessment is to:

Determine the child's present overall levels of intellectual ability

Determine the child's present verbal intellectual ability

Determine the child's non-language intellectual ability

Explore indications of greater potential

All of the above

Question 38A ________ normally evaluates gross motor skills (e.g., walking, arm movements, throwing a ball), self-help skills, and job related skills when necessary.

School psychologist

Guidance counselor

Physical therapist

 Occupational therapist

Question 39__________ refers to whether a test measures what it is supposed to measure.

Validity

Reliability

Neither a nor b

Both a and b

Question 40Which of the following is FALSE?

Parents should inform the school if they themselves need an interpreter or other accommodations during any of their discussions with the school.

Parents may prepare their child for the evaluation process, explaining what will happen and, where necessary, reducing the child's anxiety.

Parents need to share with the school their insights into the child's background (developmental, medical, and academic) and past and present school performance.

Parents should avoid sharing with the school any prior school records, reports, tests, or evaluation information available on their child

Question 41Many schools are moving towards a more global approach to the identification of potential high-risk students through the development of a school based team that, depending on the state in which the student resides, may be referred to as:

The Multidisciplinary Team (MDT)

School Based Support Team (SBST)

Multifactor Team (MFT)

All of the above

Question 42________ suggests that subjects tend to obtain the same score when tested at different times.

Test-retest reliability

Alternate forms reliability

Inter-rater reliability

 Split-half reliability

Question 43A reliability coefficient value below ______may have limited applicability.

rxx = .99

rxx = .88

rxx = .75

rxx = .70

Question 44_________ involves having two raters independently observe and record specified behaviors during the same time period.

Test-retest reliability

Alternate forms reliability

Inter-rater reliability

 Split-half reliability

Question 45_______ is/are an example(s) of a type of criterion related validity:

Concurrent validity

Predictive validity.  

Concurrent and predictive validity

 

Neither concurrent nor predictive validity

Question 46_________ is a method for assessing the validity of an instrument by comparing its scores with another criteria known to already be a measure of the same trait or skill.

Criterion related validity

Construct validity

Content validity

Reliability

Question 47If a test lacks reliability, it is not:

Stable

Reproducible

 Predictable

Dependable

All of the above

Question 48Which of the following are intervening events which could affect the validity of a test?

Death of a parent

 Parental divorce

Breakup with a boyfriend

 Move to a new school district

 All of the above

 Question 49_________ is the extent to which a procedure correlates with the current behavior of subjects.

Concurrent validity

 Construct validity

 Content validity

Predictive validity

  Question 50________ describes how well a test's items reflect the area of learning to be assessed.

Concurrent validity

Construct validity

Content validity

Predictive validity