Special Education General Curriculum Combined Test Gace (581) Updated Actual Questions And Correct Answers

SPECIAL EDUCATION GENERAL CURRICULUM
COMBINED TEST GACE (581) UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Brown V. Board of Education
Answer:
1954 Ruled Separate but Equal is Unconstitutional Not originally a court case about SPED, but began
a movement to include individuals with disabilities into public schools rather than institutions.

Question:
2. Hanson V. Hobson
Answer:
1967
Ruled that student tracking based on student performance on standardized tests was unconstitutional.
The court ruled that black and poor students were deprived of equal educational opportunity.
**Tests were not normed to poor or minority students, but instead to middle-class white students, so
the student performance was not an accurate representation of their ability.

Question:
3. PARC V. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Answer:
1972 Ruled that the state could not deny educational opportunities to state residents regardless of their
disability status. **Mainly focused on individuals with intellectual disabilities.

Question:
4. Mills V. Board of Education D.C.
Answer:
1972 Ruled that all students have a right to educational opportunities regardless of disability status or
school funding situation. **Extended impact of PARC case to all students with disabilities.

Question:
5. Diana V. Board
Answer:
1970 Ruled that the performance of minority students be compared with that of their peer group, NOT
non-minority groups.

Question:
6. Larry P. V. Riles
Answer:
1972, 1979
Ruled that minority students could not be placed in SPED until nonbiased assessments were created
because the state had used tests that are culturally and racially discriminatory and that had not been
normed with the minority population being overrepresented.
**Due to the overrepresentation of African- American children in SPED

, Question:
7. PASE V. Hannon
Answer:
1980
Ruled that Chicago was not discriminating during evaluation of the student as the IQ test being used
was mostly non-biased AND because the IQ test was not being used as the sole basis for SPED
placement.

Question:
8. Board of Education V. Rowley
Answer:
1982 The court defined appropriate (in FAPE) as "reasonably calculated to enable the child to achieve
passing marks and advance from grade to grade."

Question:
9. Which court case ruled that students must be assessed in their home language?
Answer:
Diana V. Board of Education

Question:
10. Which court case ruled that IQ tests were no longer able to be the sole measure of assessment for
SPED placement?
Answer:
Diana V. Board of Education

Question:
11. Which court case ruled that students cannot be suspended for longer than 10 days without a
placement change?
Answer:
Honig V. Doe

Question:
12. Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act 2004
Answer:
Specifies SPED services for individuals with disabilities ages 3-21
Components: FAPE Nondiscriminatory Evaluation/Assessment LRE IEP Parent Participation
Procedural Safeguards

Question:
13. What is the process of identifying students who are experiencing difficulties and providing specific
interventions to address areas of concern before children fail?
**Includes research-based interventions, data collection, and continuous monitoring
Answer:
Response to Intervention (RTI)

Question:
14. What are the Eligibility Categories under IDEIA?