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A special education teacher is summarizing the evaluation findings of a
second-grade student with a suspected intellectual disability. As part of the
assessment, the teacher administered a standardized assessment that is
normed on a younger population of students to obtain information about the
student's developmental age-equivalency. Which of the following strategies
related to scoring the assessment would be most appropriate in ensuring
the accuracy of the information?
A. Using the highest chronological age presented in the manual to score
assessment.
,B. Presenting the findings descriptively without reporting standardized
scores
C. Estimating the student's grade-level abilities based on performance on
the test.
D. Converting the students raw scores into standardized scores and
percentile ranks. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔B.
*When an assessment is administered to student outside of the normed
population, no standard or scaled scores can be accurately calculated, but
the information could still be useful to demonstrate strengths and needs.
For which of the following purposes would a behavior frequency chart be
used most appropriately?
A. Identifying the reward that most effectively motivates the student.
B. Comparing a student's behavior with that of other students in the class.
C. Determining the appropriate intervention to address a student's
behavior.
D. Establishing the baseline for a student's behavior - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔D.
,* Tracking how frequently a behavior occurs in various contexts is part of
establishing baseline and having a comparison to evaluate interventions.
Screening tools are best described as forms of assessment that have
which of the following characteristics?
A. They provide detailied information on exact supports a student requires.
B. They indicate when further assessment or intervention may be needed.
C. They inform school administrators about classroom achievement levels.
D. They provide data to support a referral for full educational evaluation. - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔B.
*Screening tools are intended to identify when a student is broadly
achieving at or below expectations in a content area and identify students
who may need additional support or assessment, but they do not provide
detailed data or precise information on student needs.
Which of the following communication strategies would be most appropriate
for a special education teacher to use when describing assessment results
to family members during an initial eligibility meeting?
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, A. asking family members what questions they have about assessment
results before discussing them.
B. providing a list of terms and definitions used in assessment reports for
family members to refer to during the meeting.
C. paraphrasing and summarizing they key information presented in the
assessment report
D. reading the assessment report aloud to the family to accurately present
all information included. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔C.
*This strategy ensures that assessment results are comprehensible to the
family during the meeting and does not put family members on the spot or
assume they do not understand.
After a functional behavior assessment(FBA) has been conducted an
intervention team meets to create a behavior intervention plan (BIP) for a
student with an emotional disability who has recently been demonstrating
disruptive behavior that has not responded to informal intervention
approaches. The team begins the BIP by developing short-term and long-
term behavioral goals. A primary purpose of this step of goal development
is to: