EDF3214 IRSC FINAL EXAM | INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE EDF3214 STUDY
GUIDE | PRACTICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2026/2027
reliability - ANS ✔✔Mr. Reynolds as created a test for his ninth-grade class. The scores that students
receive in this test are affected by their mood, the time of day, and how well disposed Mr. Reynolds is
feeling toward them while he is grading. The test has very poor _______
criterion-referenced grading - ANS ✔✔Mr. Hugo wants to assess the extent to which his students have
mastered the basic competencies of calculus. Which grading procedure is most appropriate for him to
use?
when students need to have good comprehension of the subject to rule out the other alternatives - ANS
✔✔When is it most appropriate to use "none of the above" as one of the alternatives in a multiple-
choice question?
Mr. Sanchez's - ANS ✔✔Two health classes took the same test. Mr. Sanchez's class had a mean score of
70 and a standard deviation of 6. Ms. Lindsay's class had a mean of 78 and a standard deviation of 12.
Which class is probably grouped according to ability into a homogeneous class?
It should be selected by more students who did poorly on the test than by high-achieving students - ANS
✔✔Which of the following characteristics should a well-written distraction on a multiple-choice question
have?
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - ANS ✔✔Students who do not meet IDEA eligibility
requirements are most likely to be found eligible for accommodations under which law?
performance assessment - ANS ✔✔Ms. Collins wants her physics students to demonstrate their
knowledge of how to conduct experiments, so she gives them each a box of components and asks them
to set up an experiment to determine which color LEDs have the highest breakover voltage. This is an
example of a(n) _______
post a list of student grades in the classroom - ANS ✔✔Under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy
Act, teachers are NOT allowed to _________
the students will be able to demonstrate their mastery of lower level skills - ANS ✔✔If a teacher
presents students with factual information about a topic, then assesses them via performance on a class
debate, _________
mastery of material - ANS ✔✔A teacher who gives a criterion-referenced test is most interested in using
the scores to understand a student's ________
standardized achievement test - ANS ✔✔Jennifer took a test in school that indicated strengths in reading
but relative weakness on mathematical skills. She probably took what kind of test?
Students who did well on the test were likely to answer correctly and students who did not do well did
not tend to answer it correctly - ANS ✔✔What does a positive item discrimination index tell you?
, Impaired social interaction, impaired communication, and repetitive patterns of behavior - ANS
✔✔Which most accurately describes the characteristics of the autism spectrum disorder?
adversely affecting his educational performance - ANS ✔✔For a long period of time, Brian has had a
condition that clearly exists to a marked degree, and for which his teacher believes he may be eligible for
Special Education. Upon arriving at a team meeting to discuss his potential eligibility, the most crucial
question that the teacher should be ready to discuss is whether the condition is _______
Matthew's score is higher than 80% of other children his age - ANS ✔✔Which of the following
descriptions is most consistent with the definition of a norm-referenced test?
Joshua is given a reading test with the same standard reading terms, instructions, time allowed, and
scoring procedures as well as other students who take the test - ANS ✔✔Which best illustrates a
standardized test?
item discrimination - ANS ✔✔What is the term for the statistic that can be used to see how well each
item differentiates between students who understand the material and students who do not?
Timmy is fidgety and restless, does fine in school, and has no social impairment. - ANS ✔✔Which
student is least likely to be diagnosed with ADHD?
contingency management - ANS ✔✔Mr. Singh helps Mark control his disorganized thinking by having
him make a short list of tasks and expectations to be completed in the chemistry lab that day. As Mark
completes each, he checks it off the list. When the entire list is complete, Mark may then do an activity
of his choosing such as a computer. Mr. Singh is using a method most accurately called _________
the halo effect - ANS ✔✔Kelly has impressed her geography teacher, Ms. Baslidon, with her willingness
to participate in class and her eagerness to learn. When Ms. Baslidon is grading the students' term
papers, she expects a lot from Kelly. Kelly's paper is mediocre because she did not really grasp the key
concepts, but Ms. Baslidon gives Kelly a B+. this generous grade is due to ________
acquires cognitive skills in the same way as other students but at a slower rate, suggesting they will catch
up giving proper intervention - ANS ✔✔Compared to a deficit, the indication of having a developmental
delay is that the student ______
cognitive apprenticeship - ANS ✔✔Ms. Munoz helps coach a student in how to solve a math problem,
asking him to explain his strategy as he goes, and then fades her assistance as the students begins to do
it independently. the constructivist approach best represented in this scenario is ________
are gifted if they have certain strengths among their abilities, which lead them to rapidly move through
an intelligence-related domain - ANS ✔✔According to multiple intelligence theory, it is most accurate to
say that individuals have separate intelligences and _______
predict school achievement - ANS ✔✔It is most accurate to say that the main purpose of IQ tests, when
given to children, is to ________
GUIDE | PRACTICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2026/2027
reliability - ANS ✔✔Mr. Reynolds as created a test for his ninth-grade class. The scores that students
receive in this test are affected by their mood, the time of day, and how well disposed Mr. Reynolds is
feeling toward them while he is grading. The test has very poor _______
criterion-referenced grading - ANS ✔✔Mr. Hugo wants to assess the extent to which his students have
mastered the basic competencies of calculus. Which grading procedure is most appropriate for him to
use?
when students need to have good comprehension of the subject to rule out the other alternatives - ANS
✔✔When is it most appropriate to use "none of the above" as one of the alternatives in a multiple-
choice question?
Mr. Sanchez's - ANS ✔✔Two health classes took the same test. Mr. Sanchez's class had a mean score of
70 and a standard deviation of 6. Ms. Lindsay's class had a mean of 78 and a standard deviation of 12.
Which class is probably grouped according to ability into a homogeneous class?
It should be selected by more students who did poorly on the test than by high-achieving students - ANS
✔✔Which of the following characteristics should a well-written distraction on a multiple-choice question
have?
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - ANS ✔✔Students who do not meet IDEA eligibility
requirements are most likely to be found eligible for accommodations under which law?
performance assessment - ANS ✔✔Ms. Collins wants her physics students to demonstrate their
knowledge of how to conduct experiments, so she gives them each a box of components and asks them
to set up an experiment to determine which color LEDs have the highest breakover voltage. This is an
example of a(n) _______
post a list of student grades in the classroom - ANS ✔✔Under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy
Act, teachers are NOT allowed to _________
the students will be able to demonstrate their mastery of lower level skills - ANS ✔✔If a teacher
presents students with factual information about a topic, then assesses them via performance on a class
debate, _________
mastery of material - ANS ✔✔A teacher who gives a criterion-referenced test is most interested in using
the scores to understand a student's ________
standardized achievement test - ANS ✔✔Jennifer took a test in school that indicated strengths in reading
but relative weakness on mathematical skills. She probably took what kind of test?
Students who did well on the test were likely to answer correctly and students who did not do well did
not tend to answer it correctly - ANS ✔✔What does a positive item discrimination index tell you?
, Impaired social interaction, impaired communication, and repetitive patterns of behavior - ANS
✔✔Which most accurately describes the characteristics of the autism spectrum disorder?
adversely affecting his educational performance - ANS ✔✔For a long period of time, Brian has had a
condition that clearly exists to a marked degree, and for which his teacher believes he may be eligible for
Special Education. Upon arriving at a team meeting to discuss his potential eligibility, the most crucial
question that the teacher should be ready to discuss is whether the condition is _______
Matthew's score is higher than 80% of other children his age - ANS ✔✔Which of the following
descriptions is most consistent with the definition of a norm-referenced test?
Joshua is given a reading test with the same standard reading terms, instructions, time allowed, and
scoring procedures as well as other students who take the test - ANS ✔✔Which best illustrates a
standardized test?
item discrimination - ANS ✔✔What is the term for the statistic that can be used to see how well each
item differentiates between students who understand the material and students who do not?
Timmy is fidgety and restless, does fine in school, and has no social impairment. - ANS ✔✔Which
student is least likely to be diagnosed with ADHD?
contingency management - ANS ✔✔Mr. Singh helps Mark control his disorganized thinking by having
him make a short list of tasks and expectations to be completed in the chemistry lab that day. As Mark
completes each, he checks it off the list. When the entire list is complete, Mark may then do an activity
of his choosing such as a computer. Mr. Singh is using a method most accurately called _________
the halo effect - ANS ✔✔Kelly has impressed her geography teacher, Ms. Baslidon, with her willingness
to participate in class and her eagerness to learn. When Ms. Baslidon is grading the students' term
papers, she expects a lot from Kelly. Kelly's paper is mediocre because she did not really grasp the key
concepts, but Ms. Baslidon gives Kelly a B+. this generous grade is due to ________
acquires cognitive skills in the same way as other students but at a slower rate, suggesting they will catch
up giving proper intervention - ANS ✔✔Compared to a deficit, the indication of having a developmental
delay is that the student ______
cognitive apprenticeship - ANS ✔✔Ms. Munoz helps coach a student in how to solve a math problem,
asking him to explain his strategy as he goes, and then fades her assistance as the students begins to do
it independently. the constructivist approach best represented in this scenario is ________
are gifted if they have certain strengths among their abilities, which lead them to rapidly move through
an intelligence-related domain - ANS ✔✔According to multiple intelligence theory, it is most accurate to
say that individuals have separate intelligences and _______
predict school achievement - ANS ✔✔It is most accurate to say that the main purpose of IQ tests, when
given to children, is to ________
