FTCE Exceptional Student Education K-12
Questions and Answers
1. Portfolio Assessment: A collection of work produced by a student to check student effort,
progress and achievement such as a list of books that the student read, a collection of tests and
homework, etc.
2. Florida Alternative Assessment: a performance-based alternative assessment of
student mastery of Access Point
3. Disproportionality: students from certain racial/ethnic, low socioeconomic status, non-
majority linguistic backgrounds and English language learners are overrepresented in special
education programs
4. Test Bias: when certain groups consistently score differently from other groups (e.g., females tend
to score lower than males)
5. Curriculum-based measurement (CBM): provides information about student
mastery of the general education curriculum
6. Summative Assessment: the process of evaluation student achievement at the end of an
instructional period (a quiz administrated by the teacher at the end of an instructional unit, a student's
report card, a "high stakes", state achievement test administrated at the end of the school year.
,7. Formative Assessment: assessments are "low stakes", their main purpose is not to
judge students performance but rather to monitor student progress and identify ways that
instruction can be improved overall or tailored to specific students.
8. Response to Intervention (RTI): The three levels of intensity, or tiers are as in Tier 1 -
at risk students receive additional instruction for several weeks; in Tier 2 - students receive more
intensive and longer-lasting interventions if they have not responded to Tier 1; in Tier 3 - students receive
more intensive, individualized interventions if they have not responded to Tier 2
9. Sensorimotor stage: Piaget divided this stage into six substages: Reflexes (0-1 month);
Primary Circular Reactions (1-4 months); Secondary Circular Reactions (4-8 months); Coordination of
Reactions (8-12 months), Tertiary Circular Reactions (12-18 months); Early Representational Thought
(18-24 months)
10. Early Representational Thought: 18-24 months, children begin representing
things or events with symbols. A significant sensorimotor development is object permanence, i.e.,
realizing things still exist when they are out of sight.
11. 0-1 month: Reflexes (sensorimotor stage) What age?
12. 1-4 months: infants find accidental actions like thumb-sucking pleasurable and then
intentionally repeat them (Primary Circular Reactions of sensorimotor stage) What age?
13. 4-8 months: Secondary Circular Reactions (Sensorimotor stage): infants intentionally repeat
actions to evoke environmental ettects. What age?
,14. 8-12 months: Coordination of Reactions (sensorimotor stage): children repeat actions
intentionally, compre-hend cause and ettect and combine schemas (concepts). What age
15.
16. 12-18 months: Tertiary Circular Reactions (sensorimotor stage): children experiment
with trial-and-error. What age?
17. 18-24 months: Early Representational Thought (sensorimotor stage): children begin
representing things and events with symbols. A significant development is Object Permanence, i.e.,
realizing that thing still exist when out of sight. What age?
18. Early Representational Thought (sensorimotor stage):: 18-24
months
19. Tertiary Circular Reactions (sensorimotor stage): 12-18 months
20. Coordination of Reactions (sensorimotor stage):: 8-12 months
21. Secondary Circular Reactions (sensorimotor stage): 4-8 months
22. Primary Circular Reactions (sensorimotor stage): 1-4 months
23. Reflexes (sensorimotor stage): 0-1 month
24. Ecological assessment: The goal of the assessment is to identify environments in
which the student functions with greater or lesser diflculty, to understand what contributes to these
ditterences in functioning and to draw useful implications for instructional planning.
25. Authentic assessment: provides descriptions of student performance on real-life
tasks carried out in real world settings.
, 26. Accountability: The process of requiring students to demonstrate that they have met
specified common core standards and holding teachers responsible for students' performance is the
best described as
27. Itinerant teachers: Professional who travel between two or more school sites to
provide services to students.
28. The Transition plan (Form 1 of the IFSP - Individualized Family
Support Plan): The paperwork that needs to be completed after the transition conference. the
IFSP is needed for any child with developmental delays who attends the Early Step Program.
29. Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten Program: the program enacted in 2004,
which is designed to prepare four-year-old children for kindergarten and lay the foundation for
their success is know as
30. Performance-based assessment: assessment that measures learning
processes
31. Norm-based assessments: Assessments that give us some idea of what
students need to know to achieve grade level performance are referred as
32. Informed consent: Parents being noticed in their native language of all
educational activities to be conducted during a nondiscriminatory evaluation of their child is
called
Questions and Answers
1. Portfolio Assessment: A collection of work produced by a student to check student effort,
progress and achievement such as a list of books that the student read, a collection of tests and
homework, etc.
2. Florida Alternative Assessment: a performance-based alternative assessment of
student mastery of Access Point
3. Disproportionality: students from certain racial/ethnic, low socioeconomic status, non-
majority linguistic backgrounds and English language learners are overrepresented in special
education programs
4. Test Bias: when certain groups consistently score differently from other groups (e.g., females tend
to score lower than males)
5. Curriculum-based measurement (CBM): provides information about student
mastery of the general education curriculum
6. Summative Assessment: the process of evaluation student achievement at the end of an
instructional period (a quiz administrated by the teacher at the end of an instructional unit, a student's
report card, a "high stakes", state achievement test administrated at the end of the school year.
,7. Formative Assessment: assessments are "low stakes", their main purpose is not to
judge students performance but rather to monitor student progress and identify ways that
instruction can be improved overall or tailored to specific students.
8. Response to Intervention (RTI): The three levels of intensity, or tiers are as in Tier 1 -
at risk students receive additional instruction for several weeks; in Tier 2 - students receive more
intensive and longer-lasting interventions if they have not responded to Tier 1; in Tier 3 - students receive
more intensive, individualized interventions if they have not responded to Tier 2
9. Sensorimotor stage: Piaget divided this stage into six substages: Reflexes (0-1 month);
Primary Circular Reactions (1-4 months); Secondary Circular Reactions (4-8 months); Coordination of
Reactions (8-12 months), Tertiary Circular Reactions (12-18 months); Early Representational Thought
(18-24 months)
10. Early Representational Thought: 18-24 months, children begin representing
things or events with symbols. A significant sensorimotor development is object permanence, i.e.,
realizing things still exist when they are out of sight.
11. 0-1 month: Reflexes (sensorimotor stage) What age?
12. 1-4 months: infants find accidental actions like thumb-sucking pleasurable and then
intentionally repeat them (Primary Circular Reactions of sensorimotor stage) What age?
13. 4-8 months: Secondary Circular Reactions (Sensorimotor stage): infants intentionally repeat
actions to evoke environmental ettects. What age?
,14. 8-12 months: Coordination of Reactions (sensorimotor stage): children repeat actions
intentionally, compre-hend cause and ettect and combine schemas (concepts). What age
15.
16. 12-18 months: Tertiary Circular Reactions (sensorimotor stage): children experiment
with trial-and-error. What age?
17. 18-24 months: Early Representational Thought (sensorimotor stage): children begin
representing things and events with symbols. A significant development is Object Permanence, i.e.,
realizing that thing still exist when out of sight. What age?
18. Early Representational Thought (sensorimotor stage):: 18-24
months
19. Tertiary Circular Reactions (sensorimotor stage): 12-18 months
20. Coordination of Reactions (sensorimotor stage):: 8-12 months
21. Secondary Circular Reactions (sensorimotor stage): 4-8 months
22. Primary Circular Reactions (sensorimotor stage): 1-4 months
23. Reflexes (sensorimotor stage): 0-1 month
24. Ecological assessment: The goal of the assessment is to identify environments in
which the student functions with greater or lesser diflculty, to understand what contributes to these
ditterences in functioning and to draw useful implications for instructional planning.
25. Authentic assessment: provides descriptions of student performance on real-life
tasks carried out in real world settings.
, 26. Accountability: The process of requiring students to demonstrate that they have met
specified common core standards and holding teachers responsible for students' performance is the
best described as
27. Itinerant teachers: Professional who travel between two or more school sites to
provide services to students.
28. The Transition plan (Form 1 of the IFSP - Individualized Family
Support Plan): The paperwork that needs to be completed after the transition conference. the
IFSP is needed for any child with developmental delays who attends the Early Step Program.
29. Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten Program: the program enacted in 2004,
which is designed to prepare four-year-old children for kindergarten and lay the foundation for
their success is know as
30. Performance-based assessment: assessment that measures learning
processes
31. Norm-based assessments: Assessments that give us some idea of what
students need to know to achieve grade level performance are referred as
32. Informed consent: Parents being noticed in their native language of all
educational activities to be conducted during a nondiscriminatory evaluation of their child is
called
