FTCE ESE EXAM K-12
Morphology - correct answer ✔✔The system that governs the structure of words
Morpheme - correct answer ✔✔The smallest meaningful unit of speech
Phonology - correct answer ✔✔The use of sounds to make meaningful syllables and words
Semantics - correct answer ✔✔Refers to the meaning of what is expressed
Syntax - correct answer ✔✔Provides rules for putting together a series of words to form sentences
Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) - correct answer ✔✔An IDEA principle that requires that students
with disabilities be educated to the maximum extent appropriate with students who do not have a
disability and they be removed from regular education settings only when the nature or severity of their
disability cannot be addressed with the use of supplementary aids and services.
Echolalia - correct answer ✔✔A form of communication in which a student echoes other people's
language by constantly repeating a portion of what he or she hears.
Formative Assessment - correct answer ✔✔Assessment for learning in which the focus is on monitoring
student responses and progress with instruction. This provides immediate feedback for both student and
teacher
Summative Assessment - correct answer ✔✔Evaluation at the conclusion of a unit or units of instruction
or an activity or plan to determine or judge student skills and knowledge or effectiveness of a a plan or
activity
Motor Excess - correct answer ✔✔This has to do with over activity, or hyperactivity, in physical
movement.
, Duration - correct answer ✔✔The length of time a particular behavior continues; measured by timing
the behavior from start to finish
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) - correct answer ✔✔Is not a separate disability area in IDEA; students
with this disorder may qualify for special education services under the "Other Health Impairment" area,
if the disability is significant enough to require special education support
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - correct answer ✔✔The first American school for students who were deaf
was founded in 1817 by this man
The Normalization Movement - correct answer ✔✔The movement towards serving as many children
with disabilities as possible in the regular classroom with supports and services grew out of
Community-based instruction - correct answer ✔✔Teaching children functional skills that will be useful
in their home life and neighborhoods is the basis of this type of instruction
Multiple Intelligence - correct answer ✔✔The learning theory that emphasizes at least seven different
ways in which a student can learn
Pre-Operational - correct answer ✔✔In Piaget's theory, the stage (2 - 6 years old) during which a child
learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic. - No logical
reasoning, only representation of things with words and images. Ex. Pretend Play, egocentrism, language
development
Sensory Motor - correct answer ✔✔In Piaget's first stage (Birth to Approx. age 2) in which schema are
developed through sensory and motor activities.
Concrete Operational - correct answer ✔✔In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (from
about 6 or 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to
think logically about concrete events
Formal Operational - correct answer ✔✔In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (normally
beginning about age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts
Morphology - correct answer ✔✔The system that governs the structure of words
Morpheme - correct answer ✔✔The smallest meaningful unit of speech
Phonology - correct answer ✔✔The use of sounds to make meaningful syllables and words
Semantics - correct answer ✔✔Refers to the meaning of what is expressed
Syntax - correct answer ✔✔Provides rules for putting together a series of words to form sentences
Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) - correct answer ✔✔An IDEA principle that requires that students
with disabilities be educated to the maximum extent appropriate with students who do not have a
disability and they be removed from regular education settings only when the nature or severity of their
disability cannot be addressed with the use of supplementary aids and services.
Echolalia - correct answer ✔✔A form of communication in which a student echoes other people's
language by constantly repeating a portion of what he or she hears.
Formative Assessment - correct answer ✔✔Assessment for learning in which the focus is on monitoring
student responses and progress with instruction. This provides immediate feedback for both student and
teacher
Summative Assessment - correct answer ✔✔Evaluation at the conclusion of a unit or units of instruction
or an activity or plan to determine or judge student skills and knowledge or effectiveness of a a plan or
activity
Motor Excess - correct answer ✔✔This has to do with over activity, or hyperactivity, in physical
movement.
, Duration - correct answer ✔✔The length of time a particular behavior continues; measured by timing
the behavior from start to finish
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) - correct answer ✔✔Is not a separate disability area in IDEA; students
with this disorder may qualify for special education services under the "Other Health Impairment" area,
if the disability is significant enough to require special education support
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - correct answer ✔✔The first American school for students who were deaf
was founded in 1817 by this man
The Normalization Movement - correct answer ✔✔The movement towards serving as many children
with disabilities as possible in the regular classroom with supports and services grew out of
Community-based instruction - correct answer ✔✔Teaching children functional skills that will be useful
in their home life and neighborhoods is the basis of this type of instruction
Multiple Intelligence - correct answer ✔✔The learning theory that emphasizes at least seven different
ways in which a student can learn
Pre-Operational - correct answer ✔✔In Piaget's theory, the stage (2 - 6 years old) during which a child
learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic. - No logical
reasoning, only representation of things with words and images. Ex. Pretend Play, egocentrism, language
development
Sensory Motor - correct answer ✔✔In Piaget's first stage (Birth to Approx. age 2) in which schema are
developed through sensory and motor activities.
Concrete Operational - correct answer ✔✔In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (from
about 6 or 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to
think logically about concrete events
Formal Operational - correct answer ✔✔In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (normally
beginning about age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts
