DCF BEHAVIORAL OBSERVATION AND
SCREENING (BORS) EXAMS (ACTUAL 2024-
2025)QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
True or False: Developmental skills are acquired in a logical
sequence - answers___True
Culture influences are important, it is made up of all the
factors in an environment that are accepted by the group as
the norm. Culture includes: - answers___Attitudes, values and
beliefs, laws, ways of doing things
Assessments based on children's work in the classroom
focused on measuring a child's performance -
answers___Instructional assessments
A child's emotional state in a variety of situations is tested
clinically: - answers___Temperament
A child is compared to others who are similar to him in age
and level of development: - answers___Standardized/norm
referenced
Focuses on observations and provides initial information that
can facilitate learning: - answers___Developmental screening
instruments
Parents write a narrative of their child's skills as they have
observed them, and then professional child care providers
, DCF BEHAVIORAL OBSERVATION AND
SCREENING (BORS) EXAMS (ACTUAL 2024-
2025)QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
convert this information into measurable information: -
answers___Parent-completed assessments
Sound screening tools are: - answers___reliable, valid, and
free of bias
True or False: Children who are born premature are in the
same developmental stage as those born to term -
answers___False
True or False: Adjusted age is used to correctly determine a
child's development by taking into consideration their
premature birth - answers___True
True or False: For the first two years of life, premature babies
are often behind in their development by the same interval of
time by which they were born early - answers___True
True or False: Premature babies catch up growth and are back
on track by their second birthday - answers___True
True or False: For children whose actual date of birth is more
than three weeks earlier than the expected date of birth, a
screening instrument may ask you to calculate an adjusted age
- answers___True
SCREENING (BORS) EXAMS (ACTUAL 2024-
2025)QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
True or False: Developmental skills are acquired in a logical
sequence - answers___True
Culture influences are important, it is made up of all the
factors in an environment that are accepted by the group as
the norm. Culture includes: - answers___Attitudes, values and
beliefs, laws, ways of doing things
Assessments based on children's work in the classroom
focused on measuring a child's performance -
answers___Instructional assessments
A child's emotional state in a variety of situations is tested
clinically: - answers___Temperament
A child is compared to others who are similar to him in age
and level of development: - answers___Standardized/norm
referenced
Focuses on observations and provides initial information that
can facilitate learning: - answers___Developmental screening
instruments
Parents write a narrative of their child's skills as they have
observed them, and then professional child care providers
, DCF BEHAVIORAL OBSERVATION AND
SCREENING (BORS) EXAMS (ACTUAL 2024-
2025)QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
convert this information into measurable information: -
answers___Parent-completed assessments
Sound screening tools are: - answers___reliable, valid, and
free of bias
True or False: Children who are born premature are in the
same developmental stage as those born to term -
answers___False
True or False: Adjusted age is used to correctly determine a
child's development by taking into consideration their
premature birth - answers___True
True or False: For the first two years of life, premature babies
are often behind in their development by the same interval of
time by which they were born early - answers___True
True or False: Premature babies catch up growth and are back
on track by their second birthday - answers___True
True or False: For children whose actual date of birth is more
than three weeks earlier than the expected date of birth, a
screening instrument may ask you to calculate an adjusted age
- answers___True
