GACE Special Education General
Curriculum 2025/2026 Exam Questions
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Project-based learning - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Student-centered pedagogy in
which students actively explore real-world challenges. Content can be
personalized for diverse learners.
Provide periodic review of lessons - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔How can teachers best
help students with intellectual disabilities retain previously acquired skills?
Word-attack skills - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The set of skills a student uses to
recognize and understand words (e.g. context clues, visual recognition
strategies, decoding, sounding out, etc.).
Similar (students are more likely to transfer learning when the classroom
situation & the new situation are similar; i.e. authentic assignments) - 🧠
,ANSWER ✔✔To help students transfer learned skills to new situations,
teachers should make the learning situation and the opportunity to apply
the skill as ____________________ as possible.
A student must have a permanent or fluctuating hearing loss that affects
the student's educational performance but is not included under the
definition of deafness. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔What is the IDEA definition of
hearing impairment?
Curriculum-Based Assessment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A method of monitoring
student educational progress through direct assessment of academic skills.
C. Evaluating progress using IEP objectives - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Which of the
following is an example of a curriculum-based assessment?
A. Using RTI to compare student performance
B. IQ test scores
C. Evaluating progress using IEP objectives
D. Standardized testing
,Assessment in the student's native language - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔For a
bilingual student, what type of extra assessment is necessary to determine
baseline skills?
Heterogeneous grouping - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Forming groups of students with
diverse abilities (helpful for students with special needs to be included with
stronger peers)
Homogeneous grouping - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Forming groups of students with
similar abilities (does not promote inclusion)
C. phonics and word recognition - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Students with learning
disabilities benefit from a whole-language approach in combination with
direct instruction in:
A. auditory comprehension
B. visual-motor integration
C. phonics and word recognition
D. visual memory skills
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, D. provide technology software for home use - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔In order to
promote successful use of assistive technology, teachers should try to
_____________ whenever possible.
A. provide homework that utilizes the technology
B. limit work that does not use the technology
C. allow the entire class to use the same technology
D. provide technology software for home use
Stanine (STAndard NINE) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A method of scaling test scores
on a nine-point standard scale with a mean of five and a standard deviation
of two.
5 - Average
1 - Lowest
9 - Highest - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔What Stanine score indicates an average skill
level?
Curriculum 2025/2026 Exam Questions
with 100% Correct Answers | Latest
Update
Project-based learning - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Student-centered pedagogy in
which students actively explore real-world challenges. Content can be
personalized for diverse learners.
Provide periodic review of lessons - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔How can teachers best
help students with intellectual disabilities retain previously acquired skills?
Word-attack skills - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The set of skills a student uses to
recognize and understand words (e.g. context clues, visual recognition
strategies, decoding, sounding out, etc.).
Similar (students are more likely to transfer learning when the classroom
situation & the new situation are similar; i.e. authentic assignments) - 🧠
,ANSWER ✔✔To help students transfer learned skills to new situations,
teachers should make the learning situation and the opportunity to apply
the skill as ____________________ as possible.
A student must have a permanent or fluctuating hearing loss that affects
the student's educational performance but is not included under the
definition of deafness. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔What is the IDEA definition of
hearing impairment?
Curriculum-Based Assessment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A method of monitoring
student educational progress through direct assessment of academic skills.
C. Evaluating progress using IEP objectives - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Which of the
following is an example of a curriculum-based assessment?
A. Using RTI to compare student performance
B. IQ test scores
C. Evaluating progress using IEP objectives
D. Standardized testing
,Assessment in the student's native language - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔For a
bilingual student, what type of extra assessment is necessary to determine
baseline skills?
Heterogeneous grouping - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Forming groups of students with
diverse abilities (helpful for students with special needs to be included with
stronger peers)
Homogeneous grouping - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Forming groups of students with
similar abilities (does not promote inclusion)
C. phonics and word recognition - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Students with learning
disabilities benefit from a whole-language approach in combination with
direct instruction in:
A. auditory comprehension
B. visual-motor integration
C. phonics and word recognition
D. visual memory skills
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, D. provide technology software for home use - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔In order to
promote successful use of assistive technology, teachers should try to
_____________ whenever possible.
A. provide homework that utilizes the technology
B. limit work that does not use the technology
C. allow the entire class to use the same technology
D. provide technology software for home use
Stanine (STAndard NINE) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A method of scaling test scores
on a nine-point standard scale with a mean of five and a standard deviation
of two.
5 - Average
1 - Lowest
9 - Highest - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔What Stanine score indicates an average skill
level?
