TEXES 181 TEST STUDY GUIDE & PRACTICE QUESTIONS
2026/2027
Data Sets - Correct answer ✔✔ Deaf students scored the same as hearing students on tests
requiring the use of one data set but lower on tests requiring more than one data set
Vocational Training - Correct answer ✔✔ Virtually all students in residential school setting
receive vocational training
More than one data set - Correct answer ✔✔ Deaf students scored the same as hearing
students on tests requiring the use of one data set but lower on tests requiring more than one
data set
Microphone - Correct answer ✔✔ picks up sound
Amplifier - Correct answer ✔✔ Makes electric signal
Earmold - Correct answer ✔✔ Prevents sound from leaking out has a strong effect on the
overall performance of the aid
Telecoil component - Correct answer ✔✔ Helps hear what is being said over the telephone
Over the ear/behind the ear - Correct answer ✔✔ +Least susceptible to earwax damage and
feedback
+For severe to profound loss or moderate sensorineural (inner ear/cochlea) hearing loss
IROS - Correct answer ✔✔ Bilateral high frequency hearing loss
,CROS - Correct answer ✔✔ Mild and moderate hearing loss (one good ear one bad ear)
In the canal - Correct answer ✔✔ Common for mild or moderate hearing loss, most susceptible
to ear wax damage
Compensatory-Interactive Definition - Correct answer ✔✔ A deaf child's lack of access to typical
family experiences directly challenges
Jean Piaget Theory - Correct answer ✔✔ Cognitive development depends on experiences which
challenge existing schemata
Compensatory-Interactive - Correct answer ✔✔ Children should "own their language"
Correlation of .75 is suitable for - Correct answer ✔✔ Research only
Disadvantage of surrogate skills - Correct answer ✔✔ Have poor face validity
True of Stanford 9 - Correct answer ✔✔ Most frequently used academic achievement test with
deaf children
Not a variable researched by TIMSS - Correct answer ✔✔ Elementary and secondary math and
science accreditation
Work plan steps - Correct answer ✔✔ 1. Demonstrate a verifiable disability
2. Develop a work plan
3. Begin college preparation tutoring
4. Review his work plan
,Work study options - Correct answer ✔✔ Both residential and public schools have low
percentage
Writing and science - Correct answer ✔✔ Writing helps students construct meaning from hands
on activity
The Commission on Education of the Deaf - Correct answer ✔✔ An organization produced a
document on the 1980's which is used to justify a Deaf Child's Bill of Rights based on
shortcomings in deaf education programs
Coenrollment class sizes are: - Correct answer ✔✔ Smaller
Which document recommended specific changes in deaf education to the President and
Congress - Correct answer ✔✔ Findings of the Commission on Education of the Deaf
Percentage of deaf students who want to go to college - Correct answer ✔✔ 50%
Which government department is VR under - Correct answer ✔✔ Department of health,
education, and welfare
Right before teaching math with activities you - Correct answer ✔✔ Expand current knowledge
base with activities
Disadvantage of reading aloud - Correct answer ✔✔ Low validity for users of nonstandard
English
Test that gives a student a topic, audience, and some requirements - Correct answer ✔✔
Impressionistic
, Just found out your son is deaf, which stage are you working on - Correct answer ✔✔ Trust vs.
Mistrust
Cognitive stage - Correct answer ✔✔ 1. Develop schemata from personal (manipulation)
2. Slowly develop the ability to conserve and decenter (peek a boo, what's real vs. whats not)
3. Generalize
4. Understand abstractions, form hypotheses, solve problems systematically, perform mental
manipulations
The fact that the authentic experience relates to present events or those that will occur soon is
related to which characteristic? - Correct answer ✔✔ Immediate
Infant stage cognitive level - Correct answer ✔✔ Develop schemata from physical manipulation
Deaf and hearing individuals process abstract information - Correct answer ✔✔ Similarly
At what stage does the deaf individuals reaction to deafness become most pronounced -
Correct answer ✔✔ Adolescences
Norm Referenced Testing - Correct answer ✔✔ As assessment that compares individuals to the
performance of a group of peers
Consistency is another work for - Correct answer ✔✔ Reliability
What does the Cloze Procedure measure - Correct answer ✔✔ Prediction of content
Indirect measures of writing skills using measures such as spelling or vocabulary are known as -
Correct answer ✔✔ Surrogate skills test
2026/2027
Data Sets - Correct answer ✔✔ Deaf students scored the same as hearing students on tests
requiring the use of one data set but lower on tests requiring more than one data set
Vocational Training - Correct answer ✔✔ Virtually all students in residential school setting
receive vocational training
More than one data set - Correct answer ✔✔ Deaf students scored the same as hearing
students on tests requiring the use of one data set but lower on tests requiring more than one
data set
Microphone - Correct answer ✔✔ picks up sound
Amplifier - Correct answer ✔✔ Makes electric signal
Earmold - Correct answer ✔✔ Prevents sound from leaking out has a strong effect on the
overall performance of the aid
Telecoil component - Correct answer ✔✔ Helps hear what is being said over the telephone
Over the ear/behind the ear - Correct answer ✔✔ +Least susceptible to earwax damage and
feedback
+For severe to profound loss or moderate sensorineural (inner ear/cochlea) hearing loss
IROS - Correct answer ✔✔ Bilateral high frequency hearing loss
,CROS - Correct answer ✔✔ Mild and moderate hearing loss (one good ear one bad ear)
In the canal - Correct answer ✔✔ Common for mild or moderate hearing loss, most susceptible
to ear wax damage
Compensatory-Interactive Definition - Correct answer ✔✔ A deaf child's lack of access to typical
family experiences directly challenges
Jean Piaget Theory - Correct answer ✔✔ Cognitive development depends on experiences which
challenge existing schemata
Compensatory-Interactive - Correct answer ✔✔ Children should "own their language"
Correlation of .75 is suitable for - Correct answer ✔✔ Research only
Disadvantage of surrogate skills - Correct answer ✔✔ Have poor face validity
True of Stanford 9 - Correct answer ✔✔ Most frequently used academic achievement test with
deaf children
Not a variable researched by TIMSS - Correct answer ✔✔ Elementary and secondary math and
science accreditation
Work plan steps - Correct answer ✔✔ 1. Demonstrate a verifiable disability
2. Develop a work plan
3. Begin college preparation tutoring
4. Review his work plan
,Work study options - Correct answer ✔✔ Both residential and public schools have low
percentage
Writing and science - Correct answer ✔✔ Writing helps students construct meaning from hands
on activity
The Commission on Education of the Deaf - Correct answer ✔✔ An organization produced a
document on the 1980's which is used to justify a Deaf Child's Bill of Rights based on
shortcomings in deaf education programs
Coenrollment class sizes are: - Correct answer ✔✔ Smaller
Which document recommended specific changes in deaf education to the President and
Congress - Correct answer ✔✔ Findings of the Commission on Education of the Deaf
Percentage of deaf students who want to go to college - Correct answer ✔✔ 50%
Which government department is VR under - Correct answer ✔✔ Department of health,
education, and welfare
Right before teaching math with activities you - Correct answer ✔✔ Expand current knowledge
base with activities
Disadvantage of reading aloud - Correct answer ✔✔ Low validity for users of nonstandard
English
Test that gives a student a topic, audience, and some requirements - Correct answer ✔✔
Impressionistic
, Just found out your son is deaf, which stage are you working on - Correct answer ✔✔ Trust vs.
Mistrust
Cognitive stage - Correct answer ✔✔ 1. Develop schemata from personal (manipulation)
2. Slowly develop the ability to conserve and decenter (peek a boo, what's real vs. whats not)
3. Generalize
4. Understand abstractions, form hypotheses, solve problems systematically, perform mental
manipulations
The fact that the authentic experience relates to present events or those that will occur soon is
related to which characteristic? - Correct answer ✔✔ Immediate
Infant stage cognitive level - Correct answer ✔✔ Develop schemata from physical manipulation
Deaf and hearing individuals process abstract information - Correct answer ✔✔ Similarly
At what stage does the deaf individuals reaction to deafness become most pronounced -
Correct answer ✔✔ Adolescences
Norm Referenced Testing - Correct answer ✔✔ As assessment that compares individuals to the
performance of a group of peers
Consistency is another work for - Correct answer ✔✔ Reliability
What does the Cloze Procedure measure - Correct answer ✔✔ Prediction of content
Indirect measures of writing skills using measures such as spelling or vocabulary are known as -
Correct answer ✔✔ Surrogate skills test
