ILTS 238 2026 EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT
AND EVALUATION REVIEW QUESTIONS
SOLUTIONS PROFESSIONAL GUIDE
◉ The primary goals of individual educational planning as a
component of the developmental school counseling program can
best be described as:
A. working within integrated teams to improve efficiency and
effectiveness in service delivery to students.
B. designing interventions to facilitate optimal development for
students in the academic, personal/social, and academic domains
C. implementing planned activities to ensure that students achieve
competencies in the academic domain.
D. providing students with the support, skills, and knowledge they
need to set goals and monitor their progress toward those goals.
Answer: D. providing students with the support, skills, and
knowledge they need to set goals and monitor their progress toward
those goals.
◉ Which of the following initial activities would best help ninth-
grade students with a history of academic underachievement
establish long-
,term educational goals?
A interviewing twelfth-grade students about the educational
decisions they have made
B. completing a multi-year chart mapping out the specific classes
they need and want to take before graduating
C. writing an essay describing personal aspirations for school and
life or the next ten years
D. listening to presentations by college and business representatives
about educational and employment opportunities
Answer: B. completing a multi-year chart mapping out the specific
classes they need and want to take before graduating
◉ A school counselor is working with a small group of students to
develop strategies for managing anger in healthy ways. The group
got off to a good start, discussing the purpose of the group sessions,
how members will participate, and confidentiality issues. However,
during the most recent session. students began challenging one
another and the counselor as well as demonstrating contentious
interactions, and a few minor conflicts arose surrounding these
benaviors. These behaviors most clearly suggests that the group Is
functioning at which
of the following stages?
A. Storming
,B. Norming
C. Confirming
D. Forming
Answer: A. Storming
◉ Which of the following approaches is most characteristic of a
transformational
leadership style?
A. establishing a clear chain of command with advancement for
effective
performance
B. emphasizing the needs of the group or team as the most
important priority
C. adopting hands-off management that allows others full autonomy
in accomplishing tasks
D. motivating stakeholders to buy into and deliver an inspiring
vision of the future
Answer: D. motivating stakeholders to buy into and deliver an
inspiring vision of the future
◉ Which of the following approaches is most closely associated with
the Adlerian brief approach to group counseling:
A. understanding members current experiences
, B. making the unconscious conscious
C. focusing primarily on the here and now
D. implementing active and direct interventions
Answer: D. implementing active and direct interventions
◉ A high school counselor recently concluded small-group
counseling
with several students who were having difficulty managing stress in
various aspects of their lives. The students' stress was affecting their
interactions and functioning at home and at school. Which of the
following techniques would best enable the counselor to evaluate
the effectiveness of the group counseling in addressing the targeted
goals?
A. gathering perception data from the students, their families, and
teachers related to the desired outcomes of the counseling group
B. monitoring students' academic performance and class
participation in the weeks following the group sessions
C. administering a generalized anxiety assessment to students at the
final meeting of the counseling group
D. conducting a brief follow-up interview with each member of the
group a few weeks after the final meeting
Answer: A. gathering perception data from the students, their
families, and teachers related to the desired outcomes of the
counseling group
AND EVALUATION REVIEW QUESTIONS
SOLUTIONS PROFESSIONAL GUIDE
◉ The primary goals of individual educational planning as a
component of the developmental school counseling program can
best be described as:
A. working within integrated teams to improve efficiency and
effectiveness in service delivery to students.
B. designing interventions to facilitate optimal development for
students in the academic, personal/social, and academic domains
C. implementing planned activities to ensure that students achieve
competencies in the academic domain.
D. providing students with the support, skills, and knowledge they
need to set goals and monitor their progress toward those goals.
Answer: D. providing students with the support, skills, and
knowledge they need to set goals and monitor their progress toward
those goals.
◉ Which of the following initial activities would best help ninth-
grade students with a history of academic underachievement
establish long-
,term educational goals?
A interviewing twelfth-grade students about the educational
decisions they have made
B. completing a multi-year chart mapping out the specific classes
they need and want to take before graduating
C. writing an essay describing personal aspirations for school and
life or the next ten years
D. listening to presentations by college and business representatives
about educational and employment opportunities
Answer: B. completing a multi-year chart mapping out the specific
classes they need and want to take before graduating
◉ A school counselor is working with a small group of students to
develop strategies for managing anger in healthy ways. The group
got off to a good start, discussing the purpose of the group sessions,
how members will participate, and confidentiality issues. However,
during the most recent session. students began challenging one
another and the counselor as well as demonstrating contentious
interactions, and a few minor conflicts arose surrounding these
benaviors. These behaviors most clearly suggests that the group Is
functioning at which
of the following stages?
A. Storming
,B. Norming
C. Confirming
D. Forming
Answer: A. Storming
◉ Which of the following approaches is most characteristic of a
transformational
leadership style?
A. establishing a clear chain of command with advancement for
effective
performance
B. emphasizing the needs of the group or team as the most
important priority
C. adopting hands-off management that allows others full autonomy
in accomplishing tasks
D. motivating stakeholders to buy into and deliver an inspiring
vision of the future
Answer: D. motivating stakeholders to buy into and deliver an
inspiring vision of the future
◉ Which of the following approaches is most closely associated with
the Adlerian brief approach to group counseling:
A. understanding members current experiences
, B. making the unconscious conscious
C. focusing primarily on the here and now
D. implementing active and direct interventions
Answer: D. implementing active and direct interventions
◉ A high school counselor recently concluded small-group
counseling
with several students who were having difficulty managing stress in
various aspects of their lives. The students' stress was affecting their
interactions and functioning at home and at school. Which of the
following techniques would best enable the counselor to evaluate
the effectiveness of the group counseling in addressing the targeted
goals?
A. gathering perception data from the students, their families, and
teachers related to the desired outcomes of the counseling group
B. monitoring students' academic performance and class
participation in the weeks following the group sessions
C. administering a generalized anxiety assessment to students at the
final meeting of the counseling group
D. conducting a brief follow-up interview with each member of the
group a few weeks after the final meeting
Answer: A. gathering perception data from the students, their
families, and teachers related to the desired outcomes of the
counseling group
