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WorksheetsSPED 161 Practice Test 2
Total questions: 99
Worksheet time: 50mins
A first-grade student has sensory processing disorder. What should the teacher keep in mind?
If the student does not have an IEP, the teacher does not need to make any changes.
The teacher should keep in mind certain lights, sounds, and textures will disturb or upset the child and provide an alternate activity that addresses the same TEKS if a light, sound, or texture will upset him/her.
The teacher should keep in mind the student will not have typical gross motor development.
The teacher should gently encourage the student to get used to different sounds, lights, and textures.
Which of the following is true about students with ADHD?
They are often resistant to authority and refuse to follow directions.
They act impulsively, fidget a lot, and struggle with sitting still.
They are easily distracted, but can be still when appropriate.
They have gross motor development delays.
A first-grade student struggles with holding a pencil properly, writes a lot of letters in reverse, and struggles with remembering how to form letters. What is the likely cause?
Dyslexia
Dysgraphia
Dyscalculia
ADHD
A Kindergarten student is struggling with recognizing upper and lower case letters. What should the teacher do?
Ask the parents to practice at home
Give the student flash cards with pictures associated with the letter
Do small group targeted instruction
Do weekly assessments
Which of the following THREE are learning disabilities?
Autism
Dyslexia
Dysgraphia
Dyscalculia
A first-grade teacher requests a referral for a student to be evaluated to determine if he qualifies for special education. Which of the following must happen?
The teacher must make a list of recommended accommodations before the evaluation begins.
The school must have parental permission before the student can receive special education services.
The teacher must recommend modifications the student should have based on assessments.
The school must provide a list of recommended types of support the student should receive at home.
Which of the following is designed for children ages 0-3 to receive early intervention?
An IEP
A 504
An IFSP
A RTI
Which of the following is an expected role of an educational diagnostician?
To devise a comprehensive list of a student’s needed accommodations.
To support the special education teacher in understanding the IEP.
To support general education teachers in understanding IEP’s and 504’s.
To interpret and use assessment data for targeted instruction and ongoing review.
A high school student has violent outbursts and violates the rights of his peers. What condition does he likely have?
Oppositional defiant disorder
ADHD
Conduct disorder
Autism
A student with spina bifida requires catheterization. Who would assist the student with clean, intermittent catheterization?
A. A paraprofessional aide
B. A special education teacher
C. Any school employee
D. A school nurse
Which of the following is true about ADHD?
It often runs in families
It is not genetic
It is a learning disability
Children outgrow it
Which of the following is recommended for all students, including those in special education and those in regular education?
Using enrichment
Using remedial instruction
Using differentiated instruction
Modifying the content
Which of the following strategies is recommended for teaching students with learning disabilities?
Using enrichment
Using lower grade level TEKS
Using only informal assessments
Giving breaks and breaking assignments up into smaller tasks
A fourth-grade teacher gives an assessment while teaching a unit on fractions. She uses the data to plan her next lesson. What type of assessment is this?
Informal
Formative
Summative
Norm-referenced
What should a teacher do to ensure an assessment is fair for all students, including language learners?
Provide a glossary for language learners
Use more simple language for language learners
Pre-teach all vocabulary needed to understand the content
Use an informal assessment
According to IDEA, when must a full and individual initial evaluation be performed?
Within 15 days of receiving parental consent for the evaluation
Within 30 days of receiving parental consent for the evaluation
Within 60 days of receiving parental consent for the evaluation
Within 90 days of receiving parental consent for the evaluation
A special education teacher keeps a collection of each student’s work in a folder to monitor their progress. What type of assessment is this?
Comprehensive
Summative
Portfolio
Ecological
Ms. Gonzales gives her class a test that compares each student to his or her peers on the same grade level. What type of assessment is this?
Informal
Norm-referenced
Criterion-referenced
Formative
Mr. Villalobos gives his students a benchmark assessment over the TEKS they have been learning. What type of assessment is this?
Norm-referenced
Criterion-referenced
Informal
Integrated performance
Which of the following assessments is designed for students with significant cognitive disabilities?
TELPAS
TELPAS Alternate
STAAR
STAAR Alternate 2
A special education teacher wants to share assessment results with parents. What is the most effective approach?
Call each parent and explain it
Send home a detailed explanation and assessment data
Schedule an individual conference to discuss it with each parent
Plan an open house night
What type of test would determine if a student has an intellectual disability?
IQ Test
STAAR Test
Full and individual evaluation
An informal assessment
Who can make a special education referral?
Only a parent
Only a parent or teacher
Only a special education teacher
A parent, teacher, or teacher's assistant
Which of the following is appropriate for an IEP?
Using lower grade level TEKS
Using various grade level TEKS
Using current grade level TEKS with modifications and/or accommodations
Using current and lower grade level TEKS with only accommodations
A student with cystic fibrosis needs breaks during the day for airway clearance therapy. What would he qualify for?
An IEP with accommodations and modifications
An IEP with only accommodations
A 504 plan
A paraprofessional aide to help him
A special education teacher has some students who are seniors. She wants to help them learn how to navigate public transportation, since some of them cannot drive and will soon have a job. Which is the most effective way to help them?
She can show them videos of how to purchase bus and subway tickets and practice counting money.
She can plan a field trip in which she shows them exactly how to purchase tickets and allows them to practice purchasing their own tickets.
She can have them read an article about using public transportation.
She can show them detailed instructions on how to purchase tickets and show them maps of how to get to different locations using the subway and the bus.
A middle school teacher makes an effort to properly pronounce each student’s name. She also brings in guest speakers of different backgrounds, and includes historical figures from various cultures in her lessons. What type of needs is she addressing?
Cognitive needs
Academic needs
Affective needs
Linguistic needs
A third-grade teacher pays close attention to Piaget’s ideas when planning her lessons. What is she doing?
Differentiating instruction
Keeping in mind the stage of development of her students
Using higher level questioning
Using all levels of questioning
Ms. Gonzales is a new teacher and will attend her first ARD. What should she keep in mind?
IEP’s should provide minimal accommodations to ensure the student is learning grade level content
IEP’s should address the grade level that the student is evaluated at, even if it is not their current grade
IEP’s should address current grade level TEKS and include any needed accommodations and modifications
IEP’s should address various grade level TEKS to provide appropriate challenges
A high school student with an intellectual disability is hired at a local thrift store. What would be the most effective way to help her succeed at her job?
Allow her to work in the back sorting clothes and items so she does not have to work with customers
Ask the boss to make accommodations for her
Provide her with a picture task list
Have another employee work by her side and show her how to perform tasks
Which of the following is the best way to have a culturally inclusive classroom for Kindergarten?
Do a show and tell and ask each student to bring in an item representative of their culture
Ask students to fill out a KWL chart about culture
Read a book about various cultures and discuss it
Show a video about different holidays and traditions throughout the world
Which of the following is important for a student with ADHD?
Giving him enrichment instruction
Giving him instruction on the next year’s TEKS to prepare him for the following school year
Giving breaks and breaking up tasks into manageable chunks
Phasing out accommodations
Janae, a second-grade student, is struggling with two digit addition and subtraction. The teacher asks the special education teacher for advice. What should she recommend?
Giving Janae more time and continuing with the same instructional strategies
Giving Janae a reference chart
Giving Janae alternative methods to solve problems using a hands-on approach
Using manipulatives
Why is it important to at times use heterogeneous grouping in cooperative learning activities?
To plan lessons that are targeted at each group's level
To plan instruction that meets each student's needs
Because the TEKS requires it for all lessons
To give all students a chance at meaningful instruction
Which of the following best describes the relationship between instruction and assessment?
They are TEKS based
Assessment depends on instruction
Instruction depends on assessment
They have a reciprocal relationship
A Kindergarten student with fine motor skills delays is struggling to write letters. Which of the following is the best approach to help him?
Give him tracing worksheets
Have him focus on only writing the letters in his name
Have him write only lower case letters
Giving him cues like colored dots to form the letters
A high school special education teacher wants to help students learn life skills. Which of the following would be most important?
Calculating gas mileage
Learning how to make long term financial goals
Creating a grocery list to keep expenses in check
Learning to list income and expenses to create a budget
An elementary school student with dyscalculia is struggling to learn how to tell time. Which of the following is the most effective strategy to help her?
Allowing her to use a digital clock
Sending home a clock to practice at home
Doing small group targeted instruction
Doing worksheets daily
A special education student gets easily distracted when working on quizzes and tests. What should the teacher do?
Plan rewards and consequences
Give him a pop up barrier to keep him from seeing anything that would distract him
Ask his parents to discuss this with him at home
Ask a paraprofessional aide to sit next to him while he takes his test
Which of the following is the best way to use assistive technology to help a student on the autism spectrum complete daily tasks?
Allow him to use a calculator
Give him a checklist on his iPad
Give him a picture based task list on his iPad
Give him an audio file on his iPad with oral instructions
A teacher notices that one of her students performs better on assessments when he takes them in a resource room. She makes arrangements for him to take all assessments there. What is she doing?
Performing informal assessments to determine the best testing environment
Using ecological assessment data to determine the best testing environment
Using formal assessment data to determine the best testing environment
Using assistive technology to help him on assessments
A special education teacher must lift a large student. What should she do?
Support the student by the arms and encourage him to assist her
Ask another person to help lift the student
Keep her legs straight and lift with her back muscles
Bend at the hips and lift the student
A middle school student struggles to maintain positive behavior in small group instruction and collaborative learning activities. What should the teacher do?
Avoid group activities for this student
Ask a paraprofessional aide to sit with him during group interactions
Reduce the number of students in his group and observe if it helps
Send him to the special education classroom during group activities
Which of the following is the best way to give feedback to a Kindergarten student?
Thank you for completing all of your homework last week.
Why are you the only one not following instructions?
I am glad you finally learned to observe personal space during floor time.
Thank you for sharing with your classmates today.
A student with a visual impairment receives a new assistive technology device. When learning to use the new device, it is important that the teacher:
Plan cooperative learning activities to help her learn to use the device
Ask the paraprofessional aide to help her use the device
Send the device home so her parents can help her
Plan engaging and repetitive activities using the device
Which of the following is important when teaching phonemic awareness to students with a learning disability?
Focusing on only high frequency phonemes
Focusing on the phonemes in their name
Regularly reviewing phonemes already learned
Manipulating phonemes before isolating them
Which of the following is most important when introducing fractions?
Showing a learner-centered video
Using a variety of manipulatives
Using fraction strips
Using real world examples
A Kindergarten teacher posts a schedule with pictures and words explaining the schedule. What is she doing?
Creating procedures
Setting rules
Helping students know expectations
Implementing consequences
A student with a visual impairment uses optical character recognition assistive technology. What does this help him do?
Read written text out loud
Read text from images
Enlarge pictures
Make the pictures easier to see
A regular education teacher and special education teacher share a classroom and plan together. What should they do when selecting peer tutors?
Always pair an advanced student with a struggling student
Keep the same partners throughout the year so they develop a relationship
Vary the peer tutors so various students have a chance to work with more patient and effective tutors
Use peer tutoring as seldom as possible and plan more small group instruction
A special education teacher wants to perform a functional assessment. What should she do? Select ALL that apply.
Conduct a behavioral assessment
Administer an IQ test
Give a summative assessment
Conduct a social assessment
A Kindergarten teacher notices that a student has mastered letters and sounds. What should the teacher do?
She should continue with letters and sounds to ensure the student does not forget them
She should move on to more advanced phonological awareness skills and continue reviewing letters and sounds
She should provide remedial instruction on letters and sounds
She should provide assistive technology to help the student
An elementary teacher focuses on team building activities and cooperative learning. What is she doing?
Addressing social skills
Focusing on cognitive development
Meeting linguistic needs
Using Bloom’s taxonomy
A special education teacher makes an effort to learn more about her students' cultures and reads a variety of books from different cultural backgrounds. What is she doing?
Meeting cognitive needs
Meeting linguistic needs
Meeting affective needs
Scaffolding
A foster parent asks a special education teacher to meet with her and the student’s case worker to come up with a plan to best support the student. The teacher readily agrees and prepares a list of ideas before the meeting. What is the teacher doing?
Addressing grade level TEKS
Providing accommodations in the student’s IEP
Showing she is a resource for the community
Showing she is an expert in her field
A special education teacher carefully plans different types of questions to stimulate critical thinking, but also includes lower level questions that test recall. What is she doing?
Using Bloom’s Taxonomy
Paying attention to cognitive stages of development
Differentiating instruction
Scaffolding
Which of the following should a teacher do for students that are in the preoperational stage of development?
Provide a lot of manipulatives
Provide opportunities to learn through their senses
Provide opportunities for imaginative play
Provide opportunities to make hypotheses
A new regular education teacher has a student who is struggling. She asks the special education teacher for help. What should the special education teacher do?
Ask the teacher to read a manual about common learning disabilities
Refer the teacher to the IDEA website
Offer to come observe the child and talk to the teacher about warning signs for learning disabilities
Set up accommodations and modifications for the student
A special education student is gifted in certain areas. What should the teacher do?
Provide enrichment to develop talents and support for weaknesses
Use higher level TEKS
Ask for the student to be moved to a higher grade
Phase out modifications
A PE teacher has a student with developmental delays. When they play baseball, he provides a T stand for the child to be able to be more successful. What is the teacher doing?
Meeting cognitive needs
Meeting physical needs
Meeting affective needs
Meeting emotional needs
A special education starts out the year with tangible rewards but slowly phases them out. What is she doing?
Helping students transition from external to internal motivation
Helping students transition from internal to external motivation
Helping students with external motivation
Helping student with extrinsic motivation
A special education teacher regularly meets with parents, asks for support from local companies to purchase resources for her classroom, and attends site based decision making meetings to advocate for her students to have the best resources. What is she doing?
Providing for cognitive needs
Providing meaningful instruction
Providing community-referenced instruction
Tapping into federal resources
A high school student will soon graduate and move to an assisted living facility. What could the teacher do to support him?
Ask the assisted living facility to evaluate his IEP to help him in college classes
Take him on a field trip to the facility and ask for a tour of the facility
Teach him how to make a bed and clean a bathroom
Ask his parents to go over the expectations at the new facility
An elementary school teacher plans lessons on pragmatics and taking turns. What is she addressing?
A. Social skills
B. Manners
C. Sharing
D. Linguistic skills
A second-grade teacher gives students chances to practice taking turns and waiting to speak. What is she working on?
Pragmatics
Self-awareness
Self-reliance
Self-control
A special education classroom has one student who is nonverbal. He uses some sign language to communicate. For the most part, he avoids other students. What should the teacher do?
Ignore this since he is likely an introvert
Teach the class some signs and plan small group games and activities using the signs
Pair him with a sympathetic student and allow them to play games on an iPad
Ask the guidance counselor for help
A high school student recently lost her hearing after having meningitis. She has stopped spending time with her friends and is isolated after school. What should the teacher do?
Require some students to spend time with her after school
Ask the student to brainstorm new hobbies she would enjoy and help her develop the necessary skills
Show her videos of various deaf people performing different talents
Encourage her to teach her friends some sign language and hang out after school
A first-grade student is emotionally disturbed. Recently he has been having more violent outbursts. What should the teacher do?
Ask that the student be placed in an alternative school
Add more modifications to the student’s IEP so he gets less frustrated
Conduct a functional behavioral analysis to determine the cause of the behavior
Ask for a psychologist to come evaluate the student
A special education teacher plans cooperative learning activities providing opportunities to take turns and share. What is she doing?
Teaching social skills and self-control
Teaching self-control and metacognitive strategies
Teaching self-control and meeting emotional needs
Asking higher level questioning
A fourth-grade student has ADD and is struggling to complete assignments, both at school and at home. What should the teacher do?
Plan rewards and consequences
Ask the parents to discuss this with him at home
Break his tasks at school into manageable chunks and show him how to break his homework assignments up into sections
Modify his assignments so they will be easier to complete
Which of the following would help a student learn to monitor his own behavior?
Consistently enforcing consequences
Praising the student each time he is on task
Making a behavior chart the student can use to track and self-evaluate
Calling home each day to report his behavior
A Kindergarten teacher wants to allow students to bring in an item for show and tell. What is the best approach?
Allowing each student three to five minutes to talk about their item
Randomly choosing five students to participate
Asking for volunteers
Doing show and tell at a center with a small group while students rotate through other centers
Which of the following is an example of positive behavioral support?
Strict enforcement of consequences
Providing tangible rewards
Teaching new skills to help minimize problematic behavior
Constant communication with parents about behavior
A new teacher reads classic children’s stories to her class. What should the teacher take into account?
This is an effective, engaging way to teach new vocabulary
In addition to the classics from American culture, she should also include books from different cultures
Classic children’s stories are no longer relevant
Students will not be interested in classic children’s stories
What should a middle school teacher focus on?
Creating career goals
Promoting cooperation
Fostering self-control
Promoting community involvement
A student that is deaf will soon move to a residential facility. He will need to wake up independently and be ready for class on time. What type of technology could assist him to accomplish this?
Video chat capability
A wake up call
An alarm with lights and vibration
Instant messaging
In which stage of development can students engage in hypothetic-deductive reasoning?
Concrete Operations Stage
Formal Operations Stage
Sensory Motor Stage
Pre-Operations Stage
A sixth-grade student is nervous about going to seventh-grade since math will be more difficult. What should the teacher do?
Start teaching seventh-grade TEKS
Reassure the student
Help the student make a plan to improve math skills and feel more prepared
Ask the parents to pay for a private tutor
In what stage of development do people learn primarily by their senses and movement?
Sensory Motor
Pre-Operations
Concrete Operations
Formal Operations
A high school student with moderate disabilities will soon graduate. The teacher wants to help him gain skills for daily living and to succeed at a job. What should she do?
Make a list of accommodations his boss should provide so he can be successful at his job
Provide him with a varied curriculum the last year of school to prepare him for the next stage of his life
Teach him critical skills related to the new environment
Show him videos of people with disabilities performing different jobs
What is the purpose of an individualized transition plan?
To explain to the student and family that special education services will terminate
To help a student plan for life after high school
To transfer rights from the parents to the student
To phase out accommodations
When must a school provide an individualized transition plan?
When a student is beginning high school
Before a student’s sixteenth birthday
Before a student’s seventeenth birthday
Before a student graduates
A high school teacher wants to help students prepare for seeking employment. What should she do?
Help them prepare resumes and take them to a job fair with mock interviews
Help them prepare resumes and do mock interviews in the classroom
Require them to apply for five jobs before they graduate
Ask their parents to help them select jobs they would like and apply for them
An individualized transition plan is designed:
To help students transition from pre-kindergarten to Kindergarten
To help students transition from elementary to middle school
To help students transition from middle school to high school
To transition from high school to life after high school
A teacher phases out manipulatives in math and helps students learn to make predictions and test them. What stage of development are her students?
Concrete operations
Preoperational
Sensory Motor
Formal operations
Which of the following is most important when preparing a student to transition from pre-kindergarten to Kindergarten?
Providing a lot of manipulatives
Providing time for imaginative play
Planning developmentally appropriate curriculum
Asking the Kindergarten teacher to come visit the classroom
Which of the following would be the best resource to help a high school student with a disability who is seeking employment?
Texas Workforce Vocational Rehabilitation Services
The IDEA website
The school counselor
The local community college
Which of the following should a teacher do for a high school special education student that wants to attend college?
Encourage the student to list accommodations to request the college to provide
Help the student research colleges and majors
Assign the student a research paper on finding the right college
Showing the student a video of successful college graduates with disabilities
A special education student gives students a KWL chart to fill out as they read a text about spiders in small group instruction. What is the teacher doing?
Help them tie new material to prior knowledge
Showing them metacognitive strategies
Using higher level questioning
Differentiating instruction
A teacher asks students to discuss with a partner the plot of a short story they read. What is her main objective?
To assess students' understanding of the plot
To give students an opportunity to practice oral language
To give them practice on filling out a graphic organizer
To give them a formative assessment
How many morphemes are in the word caterpillar?
One
Four
Two
Three
A teacher gives students a formal assessment on root words, suffixes, and prefixes. Students must use that knowledge to determine the meaning of new words. What is the teacher assessing?
The students’ ability to use context clues to figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words.
The students’ ability to use syntax to determine the meaning of new words.
The students’ ability to use structural analysis to determine the meaning of new words.
The students’ ability to use pragmatics to determine the meaning of new words.
A fifth-grade teacher wants to promote reading for enjoyment. Which of the following is the best method?
Modeling reading while students take a test.
Giving students an hour to read daily while the teacher models reading.
Giving students 20 minutes each day to read a book of their choice while the teacher conferences with individual students about their reading progress.
Breaking students up into groups and having them read texts according to their reading level and fill out graphic organizers together.
A teacher is teaching a unit on the water cycle. She wants to design activities that help them expand their knowledge of the vocabulary words they learned about the water cycle. Which of the following activities would best help her accomplish this?
Using a graphic organizer to categorize the words
Collaborating with a partner to quiz each other over the meanings
Writing original authentic responses using the vocabulary words
Writing the definitions in their science journal
Which of the following requires students to make a judgment when doing reading and research?
Looking at the titles, subtitles, and headings
Comparing and contrasting two graphs in a text
Determining if a type of graph is the best to use to represent the data presented in a text
Evaluating the range of the data
A fifth-grade teacher assigns students a project. She presents them with several topics/issues and lets them choose one. Each student will record a short message presenting their opinion concerning the issue. Then the class will watch the videos, using a rubric to evaluate their own presentation and their peers’. What is her main goal in assigning this project?
To assess students’ ability to evaluate the content of their own message and those of others’.
To assess students’ public speaking skills in a way that will create less anxiety for students.
To assess students’ ability to research a topic.
To assess students’ ability to use a rubric.
Which of the following are components of reading fluency? Select ALL that apply.
Morphemes
Structural analysis
Rate
Accuracy
Prosody
Which of the following are the most effective to help students in grades 4-6 improve reading fluency? Select ALL that apply.
Readers' Theater
Paired Reading
Repeated Reading
Silent Sustained Reading
A first grade student is spelling words as they sound, so some words are misspelled. The teacher _______
Should correct misspelled words so the student can learn from his mistakes
Knows that the child is using invented spelling and should encourage continued use of phonics to spell
Should teach more sight words and encourage the student to memorize correct spelling of words
Should have a conference with the parents and ask them to work with the child on spelling
