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WorksheetsEEX 4392 Competencies 1-6 Exam
Total questions: 80
Worksheet time: 2hrs 3mins
Which behaviors are developmentally appropriate for a 7-year-old student?
Completes short tasks; Sits quietly during story time; plays well with others on the playground during recess.
Raises hand to ask questions; works well with others; defines long-term academic goals.
Takes turns; Shows self-confidence; constantly seeks attention from teacher.
Displays echolalic behavior; pays attention during math; is aggressive on the playground.
What can schools do to accommodate parents who do not speak English, but want to attend their child's IEP meeting?
Provide the parents with the documentation in their native language, and ask the parents to bring someone who can translate for them
Have someone at the school who speaks the same language be available to translate for the parents, as well as provide the documents in their native language
Allow the student to act as a translator for the meeting and the materials
Meet with the parents, in spite of the language difference, and allow them to ask questions
ELLs are overrepresented in ESE because of
Cultural and Language Bias in Assessment
High Expectations
Low Expectations
Large numbers of ELL students in schools
ADHD would most likely be identified as what type of exceptionality?
Emotional Behavioral Disorder
Intellectual Disability
Other Health Impairment
Specific Learning Disability
A student with multiple disabilities and limited use of his hands is taking a math assessment in a general education classroom. What would be an appropriate accommodation for this student?
voice to text software with assistance from another student
screen reader
extended time
voice to text writing software with assistance from a paraprofessional
A student with EBD is currently in a general education setting and receives consultation services twice a week, while still in the general setting. His behavior is beginning to escalate, it is impacting the other students, and the team wants to make a change in placement. What would the next LRE setting be?
Part-time ESE classroom
Specialized school for students with EBD
Self-contained ESE classroom
Full-time ESE classroom
If a student has a medical condition that do NOT qualify as a disability (for example, Diabetes), but the student could benefit from certain testing accommodations (breaks, snacks), how can that happen without going through the ESE process?
FERPA
IEP
504
ADA
Which assistive technology is appropriate for a student with a visual impairment?
Voice to text software
Interactive whiteboard
Headphones
Computer screen reader
The most common IEP/504 accommodation for standardized assessments is?
Extended Time
Assistive Technology
Peer-Assistance
Specialized Instruction
A rookie ESE teacher intentionally has lower academic expectations for her ESE students. She believes that this will help them earn higher grades in her class. She tells an experienced teacher about this plan. How should the experienced teacher respond?
Tell her she should only lower her expectations for her most severe students.
Explain that instead of lowering expectations, she should provide and adhere to appropriate accommodations so the students can be successful at a higher level
Tell her to ask the principal if it is ok to do that, based on the IEP team
Tell her to call the parents and make sure they are ok with it
A teacher feels that one of her students will not be able to meet their IEP goal of answering reading comprehension questions at 85% proficiency. She decides to change the IEP to reflect a more realistic figure. What did she fail to consider?
The IEP team's decision to set a goal that high
The safety of the student
The instructional quality in the classroom
The parental right to participate in the IEP process
A multidisciplinary team writes an IEP for a student. A few weeks later, two members of the team decide that some of the goals need to be changed. What should they do?
Those two team members can make the changes themselves
Contact the staffing specialist to reconvene the entire team to evaluate the IEP together
Call the parents and ask them to change the goals
Ask the principal to make the changes
A ELL student needs to be evaluated for ESE, but does not speak English, only Spanish. They psychologist does speak Spanish, however it is a different dialect than what the student speaks. What should the psychologist do?
Require the parents to seek a private psychologist to conduct the evaluation
Direct the student and parents to the district office to fix the situation
Request a psychologist who speaks the same language and dialect as the student
Evaluate the student and hope the two dialects are similar enough to get valid results
An IEP team, including the student's psychologist, decides that a student could benefit from services for an emotional disorder. What is the next step the team should take?
Ask the parents what placement she belongs in
Ask the student what class they want to be in
Ask the principal to make a decision about the best placement for the student
Determine the least restrictive environment for the student at the school
Which of the following would be considered typical cognitive development for a middle school student?
Sensory motor stage
Concrete operational stage
Pre-operational stage
Formal operational stage
In order, the steps for planning and delivering ESE services for a student are:
Reevaluation; evaluation; eligibility determination; developing the first IEP; consent for services; annual reviews
annual reviews; evaluation; eligibility determination; developing the first IEP; consent for services; reevaluations
evaluation; eligibility determination; developing the first IEP; consent for services; annual review; reevaluation,
developing the first IEP; evaluation; eligibility determination; consent for services; annual reviews; reevaluation
Which of the following LRE continuum shows the least restrictive environment to the most restrictive environment?
Self-Contained; Gen Ed with services; Part time ESE
Gen. ed with services; Part time ESE; Self Contained
Part time ESE: Self Contained; Gen. ed with services
Self-contained; Part time ese; Gen. ed with supplemental services
Public schools must provide educational services, making progress on goals stated on the IEP, for all students with disabilities, at no cost to the parent.
Procedural Safeguards
Least Restrictive Environment
Free Appropriate Public Education
Nondiscriminatory Evaluation
Which of these goals would be appropriate on an IEP?
Sam will dress appropriately for school.
By the end of the year, Sam will independently read a 3rd grade reading passage and answer comprehension questions with 75% accuracy.
Within a week, Sam will stop being hyper in class and start listening to the teacher.
At the end of the first 9 weeks, Sam will increase his math proficiency.
If a college student reached out to a local ESE teacher to obtain student records for a case study, what process must the school follow?
Refuse the college students request for ESE student records because of FERPA.
Check the college students ID and then provide the records
Have the college student meet with the principal to discuss the best way to obtain the records
Put the college student in contact with the school guidance counselor who can provide the records with documentation
Parents must be formally invited to an IEP meeting, through the US Mail, within HOW LONG prior to the meeting
1 month
2 weeks
1 week
3 days
A high school senior, who is ESE, is struggling to pass the Algebra I EOC, which is a graduation requirement. The student has retaken the exam, and still cannot get the required score. The student has earned passing grades in math for all 4 years, and now the graduation date is near. What options does the student have to meet a graduation requirement?
The student is not eligible for graduation because he has not met all requirements, regardless of ESE status.
Because the student is ESE, he will be granted a special diploma at graduation.
Because he is ESE, he can continue to retake the exam until he is 21, and then graduate when he passes.
Because the student has maintained a passing score for all 4 years, the IEP team can request a waiver for the student and send it to the state for approval, allowing him to graduate
Which federal law requires that students with disabilities receive an IEP, due process, and parental participation?
FAPE
LRE
IDEA
ADA
In a teacher/paraprofessional model, the teacher identifies the objectives for a lesson and splits the class into groups. They each take a group, the paraprofessional decides that the objective is too difficult for the students, so she changes it and modifies the lesson. What should the teacher do?
Have a conference with the paraprofessional to come to an understanding about each other's roles and responsibilities
Ask the principal to remove the paraprofessional from her classroom
Ask the paraprofessional to go to another classroom
Ask the students to write a statement about the paraprofessional's behavior
An ESE paraprofessional informs the teacher that she only wants to work with certain ESE students whom she feels most comfortable with. What should the teacher do?
Let the paraprofessional only work with certain ESE students, like she wanted.
Tell the principal that the paraprofessional is not doing her job.
Explain that in order for the teacher to work with ALL students, the paraprofessional will need to also work with all students, to meet their needs throughout the day.
Request that the paraprofessional go to another classroom and try to find a different paraprofessional who is willing to work with everyone.
Which is the most effective way to use a formative assessment?
To make instructional decisions
To diagnose deficits in students' skills
To assess standards on the state test
To determine a student's percentile ranking
What can schools do to accommodate parents who do not speak English, but want to attend their child's IEP meeting?
Provide the parents with the documentation in their native language, and ask the parents to bring someone who can translate for them
Have someone at the school who speaks the same language be available to translate for the parents, as well as provide the documents in their native language
Allow the student to act as a translator for the meeting and the materials
Meet with the parents, in spite of the language difference, and allow them to ask questions
Which of the following is an example of anecdotal observation notes?
The student is behaving in class
The student has increased positive behavior by 20%
The student has difficulty in phonics instruction
The student is sitting quietly before the lesson begins
A teacher creates a timed quiz on division. The students have 10 minutes to solve 20 problems. Students must pass this test with 90% accuracy. An ESE student takes the assessment and gets 3 correct, 12 incorrect, and leaves 5 blank. What should the teacher do next, in order to help the student.
Have the student work one-on-one with a paraprofessional and allow for a retake.
Give the student extra division homework.
Reteach the material and allow the student to retake the assessment untimed.
Give the student the same assignment to do over again until he reaches the target percentage
Two ESE students are demonstrating disruptive behavior during a social studies lesson. What would be an effective way to intervene?
Ask them to act appropriately during the lesson
Tell the students you will be calling their parents.
Write them up and send them to the office
Continue teaching, walk over to the students, and use proximity control.
Which of the following would be considered typical cognitive development for a middle school student?
Sensory motor stage
Concrete operational stage
Pre-operational stage
Formal operational stage
Which of the following is an example of the "Functional Curriculum"?
Completing a task list for opening a checking account
Working in cooperative groups to analyze literature
Listening to a guest speaker about working at the airport
Writing essays about real-world situations
How can Language Arts be effectively integrated into other disciplines?
Have students write essays at the end of each lesson
Pair students up to discuss the Language Arts strategies they are using in class
Have students identify areas in the lesson where Language Arts apply
Have students apply Language Arts skills, when appropriate, during lessons in different content areas
On an assessment of physical skills given to all students, Alexandra was found to be in the 42nd percentile. What type of assessment was this?
Norm-Referenced
Criterion-Referenced
Formative
Student-Centered
Which of the following would be an appropriate way to describe troubling behavior on a Functional Behavioral Assessment?
Adrian exhibits troubling behavior in the classroom setting, despite the consequences. He likely acquired this from his father, who left the home last summer.
Adrian is angry and bitter. You can see his frustration in his eyes.
Adrian doesn't like the other students in the class, and he often feels threatened by them. To get around this, he often takes the role of the aggressor and gets into fights with them.
Adrian frequently exhibits verbal hostility to his peers. He has been in two physical altercations with other classmates this school year.
Which of the following illustrates a teacher using data to inform instruction?
Circulating the room to observe students working on math problems
Having conferences with students to discuss feedback of their writing
Using reading scores to group students temporarily for interventions
Planning a performance-based assessment
What would be an appropriate accommodation for a student with Cerebral Palsy who struggles with fine motor skills and has trouble eating independently with standard utensils at lunch?
Have the student use a standard spoon, instead of a standard fork
Put the student in a separate room so he can use his hands to eat
Have a paraprofessional feed the student
Have the student use a special spoon with a large grip
A teacher is using a tally system to document how often and for how long a student with EBD exhibits a specific behavior. What is she measuring?
Frequency and duration
Onset and outcome
Inputs and outputs
Cause and Effect
A student is allowed to test in small groups for the statewide assessment for reading. What type of assessment is this?
Norm Referenced
Diagnostic
Formative
Criterion referenced
A student is in a self-contained classroom for students with EBD. The student becomes frustrated and starts violently pushing the furniture and is threatening other students. The principal decides to suspend the student for 10 days. The parents do not feel this is fair, because the student has been identified as having a behavioral disability. What should the school staffing specialist do?
Schedule a manifestation hearing to determine if the behavior was a result of the student's disability.
Refer the parents to the school code of conduct, which their child was clearly in violation of.
Refer the parents to the principal, because the principal oversees disciplinary issues.
Tell the parents to contact the district office if they disagree with the decisions from the school.
A student with Asperger's syndrome is educated in a general education setting. Cognitively and academically, he is able to complete tasks and master the grade-level curriculum. However, his behavior has become an issue, as he is frequently disruptive to the learning environment with his verbal outbursts and temper tantrums. What should the teacher do?
Extended time on assessments
Preferential seating near the teacher
Provide a private room for the student
Paraprofessional records his answers
Anecdotal data is collected, and the IEP team notices that the student is able to exhibit appropriate behavioral functioning in some academic and social contexts, but really struggles in those areas in other contexts. Which type of assessment could be conducted to determine the extent of these difficulties, and to make a plan?
Portfolio Assessment
Ecological Assessment
Formative Assessment
Standardized Assessment
How should a teacher sequence activities during Systematic Instruction?
Planning, Review, Presentation, Guided Practice, Independent Practice
Planning, Presentation, Independent Practice, Review, Guided Practice
Review, Guided Practice, Presentation, Independent Practice, Planning
Independent Practice, Review, Guided Practice, Presentation, Planning
Which of the following is an effective assessment of the functional curriculum?
A formative assessment of a group discussion
An essay assessment for a critical analysis of a poem
50 items, multiple choice, about US History
A task list on designing and implementing a weekly budget
Frequent and brief assessments of a student's ability to read on grade level would be which type of assessment?
Progress Monitoring
Screening
Outcome
Diagnostic
Which of the following is an example of Tier 3 Level of MTSS?
Students get direct instruction on a science unit
Students are in flexible grouping to meet their needs
Students are pulled out of the class for intensive instruction in speech
Students are working in cooperative groups to solve math problems.
Which of these agencies is dedicated to educating children with exceptionalities?
Florida Healthy Kids
Florida Education Finance Committee
Florida Teachers Union
Just Read Florida
When would a Functional Behavioral Assessment be legally required?
When a student demonstrates violent behavior that warrants a two-week suspension
When a student receives a detention
When a student refuses IEP accommodations
When a student is moved from one placement to another
In order, the steps for planning and delivering ESE services for a student are
Reevaluation; evaluation; eligibility determination; developing the first IEP; consent for services; annual reviews
evaluation; eligibility determination; developing the first IEP; consent for services; annual review; reevaluation
annual reviews; evaluation; eligibility determination; developing the first IEP; consent for services; reevaluations
developing the first IEP; evaluation; eligibility determination; consent for services; annual reviews; reevaluation
Which of the following assessments shows testing bias?
An essay about Operation Desert Storm
A short answer test about the periodic table
10 multiple choice questions about a passage about men's basketball, with a detailed explanation of how to shoot a three-pointer
10 fill-in-the-blank questions from a passage read in class about the phases of the moon.
A 6th grade ESE teacher is conducting a unit on appropriate classroom behavior. What would be the most effective way to assess students' skill management of these skills?
The students track and document their use of behavioral skills across different classroom activities
A paraprofessional observes the students' behavior in the classroom
The teacher documents inappropriate behavior, and the applied consequences
A multiple choice test about appropriate classroom behavior
Which of the following would be the most appropriate way to assess a student's progress in generalizing across settings?
Problem-based assessment using language arts skills in a social science class
A multiple choice test on math, based on state standards
A unit exam about the Florida Everglades
An informal observation of behavior during reading
Which of the following is a Heterogeneous Group?
Working in pairs with someone with the same learning style
An activity that is Girls vs. Boys to see who does better
Grouping by ability, so the teacher can give targeted instruction to each group
A group of four students where one is advanced, one is struggling, and two are on grade level
ELLs are overrepresented in ESE because of:
Cultural and Language Bias in Assessment
High Expectations
Low Expectations
Large numbers of ELL students in schools
Which is an example of a Formative Assessment?
An assessment at the end of the year to measure content mastery
A brief quiz at the end of a lesson to evaluate whether the students are learning
An assessment at the beginning of the year to collect baseline data
A norm-referenced assessment to make comparisons across the population
An ESE teacher is working with students using semantic analysis. What type of questions should she be asking the students?
“How many characters are there in the story?
“What does it mean when the character talks to his father?
“What are the key words used in the story?”
"Are the words in the story spelled correctly?"
A teacher has several students who have reached the highest level of language development. These students are applying the rules of language in different context. These students’ level is:
Pragmatic
Pre-Alphabetic
Partial Alphabetic
Syntax
Ms. Johnson can tell her gifted student, Amanda, finishes her work early and is usually bored. What can Ms. Johnson do to ensure Amanda is receiving a challenging and fulfilling education?
Have
Amanda complete her assignments and then read a book of her choice.
Have
Amanda help other students who need assistance.
Conference with Amanda and map a plan together on how to increase rigor.
Provide her with more homework and rewards for completing it
Have Amanda complete her assignments and then read a book of her choice.
Have Amanda help other students who need assistance.
Which of the following is used to focus on improving the academic and functional achievement of the child with a disability to facilitate the child’s movement from school to post-school activities, including postsecondary education, vocational education, or integrated employment?
paraprofessionals
interdisciplinary curriculum
transition planning
adaptive services
An ESE teacher is going over word structure in this order: cvc, cvcc, cvcv, ccvcc. Which method is she using?
Comprehensive word arrangement
Semantic word arrangement
Systematic word arrangement
Metacognitive word arrangement
Jose has a goal on his IEP to increase his reading ability to the independent level for grade level books. At what percentage accuracy should he be reading to be considered at the independent level?
95%-100%
90%-95%
80%-85%
85%-90%
When an ESE student turns 16, the student and the IEP team will begin the process of developing a(n)
Goal centered IEP
Transitional IEP
Traditional IEP
Adaptive IEP
A teacher has refused to give an ESE student her accommodations because the teacher says she doesn’t have time.
A student knows she should be receiving her accommodations. She tells the teacher she wants her assistive technology and her accommodations as outlined in her IEP. The student is exercising:
Self-advocacy
Self-determination
Self-confidence
Self-respect
Trina is a fifth-grade ESE student who can read words by remembering visual or contextual cues. She recognizes and reads signs and labels in her school and home environments but cannot read these words when they are shown in isolation. She also lacks the ability to match letters to sounds. What phase of word recognition is Trina demonstrating?
full-alphabetic
partial-alphabetic
pre-alphabetic
consolidated-alphabetic
Metacognition is an important skill students need to comprehend text. What activity would be best to foster metacognition in students?
popcorn reading
silent sustained reading
read aloud/ think aloud
round robin reading
Which of the following should be most important when designing and implementing a transitional IEP?
student self-esteem
student reliance
student independence
student interdependence
A first grade ESE student is breaking down the word cat like this C-A-T. What strategy is the student using?
Phonic segmentation
Pre-Alphabetic segmentation
Phonemic segmentation
Semantic segmentation
A teacher is walking around the room, reading from her book, and showing students her process for working through difficult words. The teacher is using a technique called:
Structural analysis
Decoding
Modeling
Semantic mapping
An ESE teacher wants to increase comprehension and critical thinking in her 3rd grade students. What would be the most effective strategy to use?
Have students engage in paired reading to understand tone.
Have students work individually to evaluate text structure and meaning.
Have students work individually to categorize complex vocab words,
Have students work in cooperative learning groups to identify difficult words.
Which of the following strategies is most effective in increasing students’ automaticity and fluency?
phonological awareness
read aloud think aloud
structural analysis
repeated reading
Which of the following is effective in building fluency and confidence?
choral reading
popcorn reading
round robin reading
literature circles
Students in a life-skills class are taking an assessment to determine what type of job they may want or be suited for after high school. What type of transition assessment are the students taking?
adoptive behavior/ daily living skills assessments
achievement tests
state standardized tests
interest inventories
A teacher is helping her students study word forms and word relationships. She and the students are analyzing the structure of words and parts of words, such as stems, root words, prefixes, and suffixes. The teacher is working with students on:
Semantic analysis
Phonological awareness
Morphology
Phonemic awareness
Students are looking at the list of words below. What would be the best strategy to use with these words? incredible, credibility, and credit
Etymology
Sight word analysis
Phonemic awareness
Phonics
Students are breaking down words using prefixes and suffixes. They are conducting a:
rubric analysis
phonics analysis
semantic analysis
structural analysis
Phonemic awareness includes the ability to:
form compound words and combine word parts.
form compound words and combine word parts.
differentiate between homonyms and spell accurately.
pronounce individual sounds in words.
A 4th grade ESE teacher is showing students how to read from left to right. She is focusing on:
semantic analysis
phonics
phonemic awareness
directionality
A student is telling her IEP team that she is ready to revise her goals in reading. She wants to focus on comprehension and critical thinking. This student is exercising:
Self-Respect
Self-Confidence
Self-Advocacy
Self-Determination
When a student has awareness of phonemes in words, syllables, onset-rime segments, and spelling, he or she is demonstrating:
Phonics mastery
Phonological awareness
Phonemic awareness
Structural analysis
A third grade ESE student who struggles with comprehension has a goal in his IEP to be able to explain a series of events in a story. What would be an appropriate way for the teacher to use an authentic assessment to measure his comprehension?
Take a multiple-choice test.
Draw a picture representing the story.
Write a paragraph about the story.
Identify vocab words used in the story
