SOCIAL WORK 238 EXAM PREPARATION
TEST BANK WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
●● MARIA IS A 6TH GRADE STUDENT WHO TELLS HER
SCHOOL'S SWER THAT SHE IS STRUGGLING IN SCHOOL
BECAUSE HER PARENTS DO NOT HELP HER WITH HER
HOMEWORK. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WOULD BE THE
BEST INITIAL STEP FOR THE SWER TO TAKE TOWARDS
HELPING MARIA ADDRESS THIS PROBLEM? (SUBAREA 1 -
0001/0002)
A. CALL MARIA'S PARENTS AND ASK THEM TO HIRE A
PRIVATE TUTOR.
B. ASK MARIA'S TEACHER TO ARRANGE TO HELP MARIA
WITH HOMEWORK BEFORE OR AFTER SCHOOL.
C. ARRANGE A CONFERENCE WITH MARIA'S PARENTS TO
FIND OUT WHAT IS PREVENTING THEM FROM HELPING
MARIA WITH HER HOMEWORK AND SUGGEST COMMUNITY
RESOURCES THAT COULD ASSIST IN RESOLVING THESE
ISSUES.
,D. LET MARIA AND HER PARENTS KNOW THAT SHE WILL BE
RECEIVING AFTER-SCHOOL DETENTION IF SHE DOES NOT
COMPLETE FUTURE HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS.
Answer: C. ARRANGE A CONFERENCE WITH MARIA'S PARENTS
TO FIND OUT WHAT IS PREVENTING THEM FROM HELPING
MARIA WITH HER HOMEWORK AND SUGGEST COMMUNITY
RESOURCES THAT COULD ASSIST IN RESOLVING THESE
ISSUES.
●● FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS ARE ASSIGNED A TASK OF
COMPARING AND CONTRASTING THEIR EDUCATIONAL
EXPERIENCES WITH THEIR PARENTS' EDUCATIONAL
EXPERIENCES, BUT THEY ARE EXPERIENCING DIFFICULTY
COMPLETING THIS TASK. WHAT EXPLANATION HELPS
EXPLAIN THEIR DILEMMA? (SUBAREA 1 - 0001)
A. SENSORIMOTOR
B. PREOPERATIONAL
C. CONCRETE OPERATIONAL
D. FORMAL OPERATIONAL
Answer: B. PREOPERATIONAL
,●● WHY WAS THE HEAD START PROGRAM SUCCESSFUL?
(SUBAREA ??)
A. IT ENSURES THE MEDICAL WELL-BEING OF STUDENTS.
B. IT HELPS PREPARE CHILDREN FOR SCHOOL WHO ARE
AGED 3-5 AND FROM LOW INCOME FAMILIES.
C. IT SUPPORTS STUDENTS WHO ARE AT-RISK OF ACADEMIC
FAILURE.
Answer: B. IT HELPS PREPARE CHILDREN FOR SCHOOL WHO
ARE AGED 3-5 AND FROM LOW INCOME FAMILIES.
●● Who can receive Head Start?
Answer: Preschool for All serves 3- and 4-year-old children (and 5-year-
olds who are not yet eligible for kindergarten). Based on legislatively
mandated priorities, ISBE awards PFA grants to applicants who propose
to serve children, at least 80% of whom are identified as being at risk of
academic failure. Providing Head Start and Early Head Start home and
center-based programs for families and children from birth through age
5.
●● Head Start has been demonstrated to show successful progress in
children because...
, a) It helps with social-emotional and other health services.
b) Helps low-income children 3 years to transition to a public school
c) Help prepare children from low-income families for school readiness
d) Support students who are at risk of academic failure.
Answer: c) Help prepare children from low-income families for school
readiness
●● Ecological systems theory and system of organizations
Answer: The school social worker, drawing upon the person-in-
environment approach, sees the self as a professional-in-organization;
the below systems (1) interact and interrelate with one another and (2)
the individual has the capacity to construct & shape (rather than be
shaped by) the systems in which he/she/they participate
●● Systems Theory
Answer: Factors at each level (micro, mezzo, macro) & how they
interact with one another to shape the lived experience; from which risk
& protective factors derive; when conducting an assessment (bio-
psycho-social-spiritual)
Micro - IQ, age, gender, income, health, language, spirituality,
recreation, emotion, cognition, self-esteem
Mezzo - local economy & resource, coworkers, work, family, church,
neighborhood
TEST BANK WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
●● MARIA IS A 6TH GRADE STUDENT WHO TELLS HER
SCHOOL'S SWER THAT SHE IS STRUGGLING IN SCHOOL
BECAUSE HER PARENTS DO NOT HELP HER WITH HER
HOMEWORK. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WOULD BE THE
BEST INITIAL STEP FOR THE SWER TO TAKE TOWARDS
HELPING MARIA ADDRESS THIS PROBLEM? (SUBAREA 1 -
0001/0002)
A. CALL MARIA'S PARENTS AND ASK THEM TO HIRE A
PRIVATE TUTOR.
B. ASK MARIA'S TEACHER TO ARRANGE TO HELP MARIA
WITH HOMEWORK BEFORE OR AFTER SCHOOL.
C. ARRANGE A CONFERENCE WITH MARIA'S PARENTS TO
FIND OUT WHAT IS PREVENTING THEM FROM HELPING
MARIA WITH HER HOMEWORK AND SUGGEST COMMUNITY
RESOURCES THAT COULD ASSIST IN RESOLVING THESE
ISSUES.
,D. LET MARIA AND HER PARENTS KNOW THAT SHE WILL BE
RECEIVING AFTER-SCHOOL DETENTION IF SHE DOES NOT
COMPLETE FUTURE HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS.
Answer: C. ARRANGE A CONFERENCE WITH MARIA'S PARENTS
TO FIND OUT WHAT IS PREVENTING THEM FROM HELPING
MARIA WITH HER HOMEWORK AND SUGGEST COMMUNITY
RESOURCES THAT COULD ASSIST IN RESOLVING THESE
ISSUES.
●● FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS ARE ASSIGNED A TASK OF
COMPARING AND CONTRASTING THEIR EDUCATIONAL
EXPERIENCES WITH THEIR PARENTS' EDUCATIONAL
EXPERIENCES, BUT THEY ARE EXPERIENCING DIFFICULTY
COMPLETING THIS TASK. WHAT EXPLANATION HELPS
EXPLAIN THEIR DILEMMA? (SUBAREA 1 - 0001)
A. SENSORIMOTOR
B. PREOPERATIONAL
C. CONCRETE OPERATIONAL
D. FORMAL OPERATIONAL
Answer: B. PREOPERATIONAL
,●● WHY WAS THE HEAD START PROGRAM SUCCESSFUL?
(SUBAREA ??)
A. IT ENSURES THE MEDICAL WELL-BEING OF STUDENTS.
B. IT HELPS PREPARE CHILDREN FOR SCHOOL WHO ARE
AGED 3-5 AND FROM LOW INCOME FAMILIES.
C. IT SUPPORTS STUDENTS WHO ARE AT-RISK OF ACADEMIC
FAILURE.
Answer: B. IT HELPS PREPARE CHILDREN FOR SCHOOL WHO
ARE AGED 3-5 AND FROM LOW INCOME FAMILIES.
●● Who can receive Head Start?
Answer: Preschool for All serves 3- and 4-year-old children (and 5-year-
olds who are not yet eligible for kindergarten). Based on legislatively
mandated priorities, ISBE awards PFA grants to applicants who propose
to serve children, at least 80% of whom are identified as being at risk of
academic failure. Providing Head Start and Early Head Start home and
center-based programs for families and children from birth through age
5.
●● Head Start has been demonstrated to show successful progress in
children because...
, a) It helps with social-emotional and other health services.
b) Helps low-income children 3 years to transition to a public school
c) Help prepare children from low-income families for school readiness
d) Support students who are at risk of academic failure.
Answer: c) Help prepare children from low-income families for school
readiness
●● Ecological systems theory and system of organizations
Answer: The school social worker, drawing upon the person-in-
environment approach, sees the self as a professional-in-organization;
the below systems (1) interact and interrelate with one another and (2)
the individual has the capacity to construct & shape (rather than be
shaped by) the systems in which he/she/they participate
●● Systems Theory
Answer: Factors at each level (micro, mezzo, macro) & how they
interact with one another to shape the lived experience; from which risk
& protective factors derive; when conducting an assessment (bio-
psycho-social-spiritual)
Micro - IQ, age, gender, income, health, language, spirituality,
recreation, emotion, cognition, self-esteem
Mezzo - local economy & resource, coworkers, work, family, church,
neighborhood
