SPE 100 Midterm

A communal and inclusive approach to solving problems that can serve as an alternative to suspension and expulsion is known

restorative justice

Although students with disabilities make up approximately 13 percent of the public school population, they receive ________ percent of all restraints or seclusion.

67

Approximately ________ of students receiving special education services are male.

two-thirds

Customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; and the characteristic features of everyday existence shared by people in a place and time is which of the following?

A Macroculture
B Culture
C Cultural Responsiveness
D Ethnicity

B Culture

Race/ethnicity, language, income, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, age, and geography are which of the following?

Macrocultures
Cultures
Considerations of cultural responsiveness
Microcultures

Microcultures

The disability group with the lowest graduation rate (42%) is students with a(n):

Intellectual disability

This practice uses the experiences, perspectives, family and social networks, strengths, and needs of diverse students as a resource to ensure learning and positive outcomes.

Culturally responsive teaching

The disability rights movement in special education began primarily with the efforts of:

Parents of children and adults with disabilities

The phrase, "disabled adults," is an example of:

Identity-first language

What types of statements are brief comments by teachers or classmates about the effect of another person's behavior on themselves?

Affective statements

Which of the following ordered schools to desegregate by race with all due deliberate speed?

Diana v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education
PASE v. Hannon
Larry P. v. Riles

Brown v. Board of Education

Which of the following terms refers to the "customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; also, the characteristic features of everyday existence…shared by people in a place and time?"

Ethnicity
Culture
Microculture
Macroculture

Culture

Which two court cases are most credited with prompting Congress to write IDEA (then called the Education for All Handicapped Students Act)?

PARC v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Mills v. Board of Education

Which type of discrimination refers to the granting of educational access to individuals with disabilities, but not conferring any benefit for the students once they had access to school?

"Functional" exclusion

________ operates on an unconscious level and influences our attitudes about other people, but we are not even aware of our bias.

Implicit bias

A surrogate parent, as stated in IDEA, acts as a(n)

Educational advocate

Advocacy involves each of the following except:

Affirming strengths
Seeking win-win solutions
Preventing problems
Keeping your conscience primed

Affirming atrengths

Being friendly, listening, being clear and honest, and providing and coordinating information are practices of:

Effective communication

Children with emotional or behavioral disorders who have circles of friends:

Are more socially accepted than those who do not

Each of the following is a network that guides families to helpful resources except which one?

Community parent resource centers
Parent-to-family programs
Family-to-family health information centers
Parent training and information centers

Parent-to-family programs

Each of the following is generally true of IEP conferences except:


Multiple family members usually attend
Professionals tend to dominate decision making
Professionals tend to dominate discussions
Parents often feel confused, intimidated, and disrespected

Multiple family members usually attend

Family quality of life includes the extent of each of the following except:

Family members have a chance to do things that are important to them
The families' needs are met
Family members enjoy their life together
The family has professional partnerships with educators and others

The family has professional partnerships with educators and others

Individualizing communication requires teachers to do each of the following except:

Determine when a family has access to a telephone
Take the family's language facility with English into consideration
Determine if a family has access to email
Make themselves available at all times

Make themselves available at all times

Parent training and information centers (PTIs) help families do each of the following except:

Serve as a resource for quality health care
Communicate with educators
Know their rights and responsibilities
Understand the nature of disabilities

Serve as a resource for quality health care

Relationships in which families and professionals collaborate, capitalizing on each other's judgments and expertise in order to increase the benefits of education for students, families, and professionals are called which of the following?

Family-professional partnerships
Parent-Teacher Association
School-family partnerships
Family intervention services

Family-professional partnerships

The statistical comparison of populations is:

Demographics

What involves more than just registering, reflecting, or even understanding words that are said?

Empathetic listening

When parents and educators have a concern, it is helpful to have a person from outside the school who can objectively structure the meeting. This person is a(n):

Facilitator

Which domain addresses having resources for the family such as transportation, a way to take care of expenses, and even dental care?

Physical/material well-being

Which network that guides families to helpful resources has been the most thoroughly researched in terms of its particular outcomes for families?

Parent-to-parent programs

A systems-level, problem-solving oriented, data-based approach to reducing problem behavior, improving appropriate behavior, and achieving important academic, social, and communication outcomes throughout the school building is:

Positive behavior supports

All of the following are key characteristics of inclusion except:

Home-school placement
Restructuring teaching and learning
Principle of natural proportions
Alternative assessment

Home-school placement

Alternative assessments based on modified achievement standards (AA-MAS) are used for students who:

Need both accommodations and modifications to the grade level standards

Each of the following are ways the IEP team will consider inclusion, except:

Weigh the Cost of Inclusion

Over the last decade, where have students with disabilities been spending more of their instructional time?

In the general education classroom

Specialized settings in schools may include resource rooms and which of the following?

Least restrictive classrooms
Gifted and talented classrooms
Self-contained classrooms
General education classrooms

Self-contained classrooms

The IEP team must consider five "special factors" when developing an IEP, including each of the following, except:

The student's home life setting
Language needs of students with limited English proficiency
Strategies to address a student's behavior that impedes learning
Instruction in Braille for students who are blind

The student's home life setting

There is almost universal agreement that students with disabilities gain benefits in which areas from their involvement in inclusive settings?

Social and communication

What is the hallmark of special education?

Individualization

Which of the following defines the level of achievement that students must meet to demonstrate proficiency in the subjects?

Academic content standards
The general education curriculum
Student academic standards
Alternative achievement standards

Academic content standards

Which of the following determines whether any student, with or without a disability, needs more intensive instruction?

Response to intervention
Positive behavior supports
Alternative assessment
Universal Design for Learning

Response to intervention

Which of the following identifies the academic content that students should master, the standards for the student's achievement of content proficiency, and assessment of student progress in meeting the standards?

Alternative achievement standards
Standards-based reform
The general education curriculum
Student achievement standards

Standards-based reform

Which of the following students are more likely to attend residential schools?

Students with learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, and physical disabilities
Students with hearing impairments, visual impairments, and deaf-blindness
Students with autism, visual impairments, and traumatic brain injury
Students with autism, traumatic brain injury, and intellectual disabilities

Students with hearing impairments, visual impairments, and deaf-blindness

________ involves directly assessing a student's skills in the content of the curriculum.

Curriculum-based measurement

________ is used to assess educational outcomes.

Summative assessment

A student who is struggling with reading comprehension has been identified for additional, more targeted small group supports. In which tier of the RTI model is this student most likely being served?

Tier 2

At which tier in multi-tiered systems should a leadership team be established?

Tier 1

At which tier would a Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) most likely be considered in an SW-PBIS model?

Tier 3

In a tiered model of instruction, which process occurs before instruction is delivered in order to obtain data for use in identifying factors likely to predict whether a student will make progress in school without support or whether the student may need additional support.

Progress monitoring

Response to Intervention originally became a strategy for identifying students who may qualify for which disability category?

Specific Learning Disability

The general education classroom setting would be considered which tier in the RTI process?

Tier 1

The primary requirement for tier 1 in the Response to Intervention model is that all students have access to:

Research-based instruction

This tiered model aligns academic and behavioral instruction and supports delivered in both SW-PBIS and RTI.

Multi-tiered Systems of Support

Tier 1 SW-PBIS instruction and supports are:

Universal

What is the purpose of an FBA?

The purpose of an FBA is to determine why students are engaging in particular behaviors.

What process is used to determine when and how all students will receive Tier 2 and Tier 3 supports in school-wide systems of supports?

Progress monitoring

Which of the following is a step that school communities would NOT likely take to implement developed behavioral expectations?

Teach behavioral expectations.
Clearly define behavioral expectations.
Punish students who do not comply with expectations.
Frequently acknowledge appropriate behaviors.

Punish students who do not comply with expectations.

Which of the following percentage breakdowns represents the breakdown of students whose needs are met in the primary, secondary, and then tertiary levels of prevention in a three-tiered model of prevention?

80/15/5
75/20/5
85/10/5
60/30/10

80/15/5

Which school-wide multi-tiered system incorporates academics, behavior, and social/emotional supports?

Ci3T

With respect to behavior, this tiered intervention model is one of the most widely known and utilized school-wide systems.

School-wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports

A persistent pattern of antisocial behavior that significantly interferes with others' rights or with schools' and communities' behavioral expectations is:

Conduct disorder

According to IDEA, five characteristics of emotional or behavioral disorders include each of the following except:

Unhappiness or depression
Inability to feel fear
Inability to build or maintain friendships
Inappropriate behavior

Inability to feel fear

An overwhelming attack resulting in rapid heartbeat, dizziness, and/or other physical symptoms is:

Panic disorder

Because of anxiety, students with emotional or behavioral problems may have more difficulty:

Completing tests

Brain functioning and heredity relate to which cause of emotional or behavioral disorders?

Biological

Each of the following is a category of conduct disorder except which one?

Lying
Aggressive conduct
Property destruction
Unfounded fearfulness

Unfounded fearfulness

Each of the following is a type of emotional or behavioral disorder except:

Schizophrenia
Repressive disorder
Oppositional defiant disorder
Mood disorder

Repressive disorder

Excessive and intense fear associated with being away from home, family, and others whom the child has a close attachment is:

Separation anxiety disorder

People are classified as having schizophrenia if they have each of the following symptoms, except:

Catatonic behavior lacking typical movement, activity, or expression
Auditory hallucinations of a voice commenting on themselves
Organized, rapid speech
Delusions of grandeur or identity

Organized, rapid speech

Services that address all educational, mental health, and physical health needs are:

Wraparound

Students with oppositional defiant disorder have some of each of the following behaviors for at least 6 months except:

Loss of temper
Refusal to cooperate with adult requests
Severe aggressive and antisocial behavior
Deliberate annoyance of others

Severe aggressive and antisocial behavior

The highest rate of depression occurs among:

Adolescent girls

What percent of students are classified as having emotional or behavioral disorders according to the U.S. Department of Education?

About 6%

What percent of youth in correctional facilities were receiving special education services?

About 33%

Which of the following is the result of the combination of mastery learning and a good-behavior game?

Classroom-centered intervention

A formal, written plan for children from birth through age two is which of the following?

IEP–Individualized Education Plan
IECP–Individualized Early Childhood Plan
IFSP–Individualized Family Service Plan
ITP–Individualized Transition Plan

IFSP–Individualized Family Service Plan

Each of the following must be part of supported employment except which one?

The supported worker must be paid above minimum wage.
The supported worker must, after 18 months, be able to do the job without support.
The supported worker must work at least 20 hours a week.
The supported worker must work in a typical work setting.

The supported worker must be paid above minimum wage.

Infants and toddlers who need early intervention services due to developmental delays physical or mental conditions that have a high probability of resulting in developmental delay are provided with services through:

Part C of IDEA

Professionals, in addition to educators, who provide supplemental services to students in schools are known as:

Related service providers

The act which seeks to mandate accountability for performance regarding people with disabilities is which of the following?

ADA
The ESEA
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
The Tech Act

The ESEA

The principle of IDEA which allows fair and specific procedures related to assessment, identification, and placement of children in special education is called:

Nondiscriminatory evaluation

The total number of students, youth, and young adults served by special education is approximately:

7 milion

What is the current age span for services under IDEA?

IDEA covers individuals ages birth through 21

What percent of students ages 6 through 21 receive some form of special education?

8.9%

Which law extends accessibility and anti-discriminatory protection for individuals with disabilities into private-sector employment, transportation, state and local government activities and programs, privately operated businesses that are open to the public ("public accommodations"), and telecommunications?

ADA

Which of the following describe the two elements of disability?

Inadequate test results; Professional opinion
Professional opinion; Inadequate test results
Physical or mental impairment; Inadequate test results
Physical or mental impairment; Substantial limitation of major life activity

Physical or mental impairment; Substantial limitation of major life activity

Which of the following is not one of the Council for Exceptional Children's Special Education Professional Ethical Principles?

Advocating for professional conditions and resources that will improve learning outcomes of individuals with exceptionalities.
Lobbying for policies that ensure that students with disabilities receive most of their instruction in a separate setting.
Engaging in the improvement of the profession through active participation in professional organizations.
Participating in the growth and dissemination of professional knowledge and skills.

Lobbying for policies that ensure that students with disabilities receive most of their instruction in a separate setting.

Which of the following make mention of disability being related to an impairment in a major life function?

ADA and 504
IDEA and ADA
IDEA and ESEA
504 and IDEA

ADA and 504

Which of the following prohibits discrimination in any activity receiving federal financial assistance solely on the basis of disability?

Section 504
IDEA
ESEA
NCLB

Section 054

Which part of IDEA declares our national policy regarding the education of students with disabilities?

Part A
Part B
Part C
Part D

Part A

A research-based practice that provides content instruction in a different time sequence is called:

Embedded instruction

According to the U.S. Department of Education, what percentage of school age children identified to receive special education services receives services for intellectual disabilities?

About 7%

Appropriate roles for paraprofessionals include each of the following except which one?

Facilitating friendships among students with and without disabilities
Providing individualized instruction to groups of students
Assisting students with personal care
Correct Providing primary instruction to students with disabilities

Providing primary instruction to students with disabilities

Each of the following is an assumption regarding the definition of intellectual disabilities except:

Limitations within an individual coexist with strengths.
Limitations must be considered within the context of community environments typical of the person's age, peers, and culture.
Correct The condition is permanent, and even with personalized supports over a sustained period it does not improve.
Valid assessments, considering cultural and linguistic diversity and differences in communication, sensory, motor, and behavioral factors, must be used.

The condition is permanent, and even with personalized supports over a sustained period it does not improve.

People with intellectual disabilities have significant limitations in adaptive behavior as expressed in conceptual, practical skills, and:

Social Skills

Services, resources, and personal assistance for enabling a person to develop, learn, and live effectively are called:

Supports

Students with intellectual disabilities have difficulty transferring knowledge or behavior learned for doing one task to another task for each of the following reasons except:

They do not have the intellectual capacity to learn the skill
They have challenges using working memory in novel situations
Non-school settings tend to have greater complexity and more distractions
Expectations vary in different settings

They do not have the intellectual capacity to learn the skill

The ability to transfer knowledge or behavior learned for doing one task to another task and to make that transfer across different settings or environments is which of the following?

Working Memory
Long-term memory
Generalization
Short-term memory

Generalization

The majority of students with intellectual disabilities have IQ ranges in which of the following?

20—25 to 30—40
IQ below 20—25
35—40 to 50—55
50—55 to approximately 70

50—55 to approximately 70

This term refers to acting volitionally, or making or causing things to happen in your life.

The self-determined learning model