402 Midterm Review

Oral expression, listening comprehension, written expression, basic reading skills, reading comprehension, math calculation, and math reasoning are all areas in which a child may qualify to receive special education services under which of the following categories?

• autism

• intellectual disability

• specific learning disability

• attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Parents must be fully informed and provide consent for which of the following before it occurs?

• a comprehensive evaluation

• the initiation of special education services

• The release of confidential records

• all of the above

Federal law provides which of the following to insure the rights of parents are not violated?

• several assessments techniques

• several methods of observation

• several techniques and strategies for intervention

• several procedural safeguards

Even when the most technically superior assessment instruments are used for the evaluation, the evaluation can be inaccurate when:

• the wrong instrument was employed

• the standardized procedures were not followed

• parental input was ignored

• all of the above

The Grade Level Equivalent score means which of the following?

• The student has mastered all of the skills and knowledge at that particular grade level.

• The student is at the same age and grade level as all of the other students in that particular grade.

• The student has answered as many items correctly as the typical student in that particular grade.

• The student is at the failure level indicated by the grade equivalent.

In a perfectly normal distribution (bell curve), the mean, median, and mode:

• are measures of dispersion

• are used to calculate the standard deviation

• are represented by the same value

• are easy to calculate

What is the median percentile rank?

• 20th

• 50th

• 80th

• 90th

Calculating the variance and standard deviation for a distribution of data will allow you to be able to examine the:

• frequency distribution of the scores

• measures of central tendency or clustering of the data around the mean

• range of the scores

• measures of dispersion or the spread of the data from the mean

The scores obtained by Dr. Lecture on a psychology test were compared and it was determined that students who scored high on the first exam tended to score high on the second exam. Which of the following represents the probable correlation between the two sets of scores?

• no correlation

• positive correlation

• negative correlation

• valid correlation

Standard error of measurement is used to determine confidence intervals.

• True

• False