OA Assessment D230 UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Intelligence tests contain items that contain which of the following? (select 6) - CORRECT
ANSWER -1. Discrimination
2. General knowledge
3. Memory
4. Reasoning
5. Motor Behavior
6. Processing
Why is it important to understand appropriate ways to adapt assessments for individuals with
exceptionalities?
Select two - CORRECT ANSWER -1. To include students with disabilities in assessments
for accountability purposes as required by the law
2. To provide more accurate assessment data about individual students
Which are two approaches that can be used to infer that a student has a disorder in a basic
psychological process? - CORRECT ANSWER -1. Response to Intervention
2. Severe discrepancy
What is one key assumption regarding Response To Intervention (RTI)? - CORRECT
ANSWER -The measurement system is able to detect changes in student learning as a
result of instruction
What are the four general types of accommodations? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Presentation, response, setting, and time/scheduling
______ is the systematic gathering of educationally relevant data in order to make
determinations about schooling for students. - CORRECT ANSWER -Assessment
, How are achievement difficulties verified?
(Select 2) - CORRECT ANSWER -1. By results of individual achievement tests
administered by a school psychologist or learning specialist
2. By direct observation during classroom instruction
A second-grade student is taught reading in the general second-grade classroom through use of a
comprehensive research-based curriculum (e.g., Houghton-Mifflin Reading Program). This
student begins to experience difficulties and struggles in reading. The teacher then selects and
implements two differentiated teaching techniques (i.e., providing assignment choices, teaching
in multiple modalities) to help the student in reading. Both of these differentiated instructional
strategies fall within Tier 1 instruction. After the student continues to show lack of progress with
the research-based reading curriculum and the targeted instructional differentiations as
demonstrated by poor achievement data scores, the teacher selects an alternate curriculum based
on direct instruction. Is this the correct process for moving through the tiers. - CORRECT
ANSWER -False
What is the average range of intelligence test (IQ) scores? - CORRECT ANSWER -85-
115
What type of tests are used in the process of conducting comprehensive assessment to determine
if a student qualifies and can benefit from special education and related services? - CORRECT
ANSWER -Individually administered diagnostic tests
When a test measures what it says it is measuring, that test is considered to be - CORRECT
ANSWER -Valid
In a normal distribution, approximately 68% of the scores are expected to fall - CORRECT
ANSWER -between -1SD and +1SD
In a distribution of scores, a measure of central tendency above which and below which 50
percentage of the scores fall is? - CORRECT ANSWER -Median
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Intelligence tests contain items that contain which of the following? (select 6) - CORRECT
ANSWER -1. Discrimination
2. General knowledge
3. Memory
4. Reasoning
5. Motor Behavior
6. Processing
Why is it important to understand appropriate ways to adapt assessments for individuals with
exceptionalities?
Select two - CORRECT ANSWER -1. To include students with disabilities in assessments
for accountability purposes as required by the law
2. To provide more accurate assessment data about individual students
Which are two approaches that can be used to infer that a student has a disorder in a basic
psychological process? - CORRECT ANSWER -1. Response to Intervention
2. Severe discrepancy
What is one key assumption regarding Response To Intervention (RTI)? - CORRECT
ANSWER -The measurement system is able to detect changes in student learning as a
result of instruction
What are the four general types of accommodations? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Presentation, response, setting, and time/scheduling
______ is the systematic gathering of educationally relevant data in order to make
determinations about schooling for students. - CORRECT ANSWER -Assessment
, How are achievement difficulties verified?
(Select 2) - CORRECT ANSWER -1. By results of individual achievement tests
administered by a school psychologist or learning specialist
2. By direct observation during classroom instruction
A second-grade student is taught reading in the general second-grade classroom through use of a
comprehensive research-based curriculum (e.g., Houghton-Mifflin Reading Program). This
student begins to experience difficulties and struggles in reading. The teacher then selects and
implements two differentiated teaching techniques (i.e., providing assignment choices, teaching
in multiple modalities) to help the student in reading. Both of these differentiated instructional
strategies fall within Tier 1 instruction. After the student continues to show lack of progress with
the research-based reading curriculum and the targeted instructional differentiations as
demonstrated by poor achievement data scores, the teacher selects an alternate curriculum based
on direct instruction. Is this the correct process for moving through the tiers. - CORRECT
ANSWER -False
What is the average range of intelligence test (IQ) scores? - CORRECT ANSWER -85-
115
What type of tests are used in the process of conducting comprehensive assessment to determine
if a student qualifies and can benefit from special education and related services? - CORRECT
ANSWER -Individually administered diagnostic tests
When a test measures what it says it is measuring, that test is considered to be - CORRECT
ANSWER -Valid
In a normal distribution, approximately 68% of the scores are expected to fall - CORRECT
ANSWER -between -1SD and +1SD
In a distribution of scores, a measure of central tendency above which and below which 50
percentage of the scores fall is? - CORRECT ANSWER -Median
