GACE Special Education General
Curriculum STUDY GUIDE Exam
Questions and Verified Answers
Project-based learning - ✔✔Student-centered pedagogy in which students
actively explore real-world challenges. Content can be personalized for diverse
learners.
Provide periodic review of lessons - ✔✔How can teachers best help students
with intellectual disabilities retain previously acquired skills?
Word-attack skills - ✔✔The set of skills a student uses to recognize and
understand words (e.g. context clues, visual recognition strategies, decoding,
sounding out, etc.).
Similar (students are more likely to transfer learning when the classroom
situation & the new situation are similar; i.e. authentic assignments) - ✔✔To
help students transfer learned skills to new situations, teachers should make
the learning situation and the opportunity to apply the skill as
____________________ as possible.
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,A student must have a permanent or fluctuating hearing loss that affects the
student's educational performance but is not included under the definition of
deafness. - ✔✔What is the IDEA definition of hearing impairment?
Curriculum-Based Assessment - ✔✔A method of monitoring student
educational progress through direct assessment of academic skills.
C. Evaluating progress using IEP objectives - ✔✔Which of the following is an
example of a curriculum-based assessment?
A. Using RTI to compare student performance
B. IQ test scores
C. Evaluating progress using IEP objectives
D. Standardized testing
Assessment in the student's native language - ✔✔For a bilingual student, what
type of extra assessment is necessary to determine baseline skills?
Heterogeneous grouping - ✔✔Forming groups of students with diverse abilities
(helpful for students with special needs to be included with stronger peers)
Homogeneous grouping - ✔✔Forming groups of students with similar abilities
(does not promote inclusion)
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, C. phonics and word recognition - ✔✔Students with learning disabilities benefit
from a whole-language approach in combination with direct instruction in:
A. auditory comprehension
B. visual-motor integration
C. phonics and word recognition
D. visual memory skills
D. provide technology software for home use - ✔✔In order to promote
successful use of assistive technology, teachers should try to _____________
whenever possible.
A. provide homework that utilizes the technology
B. limit work that does not use the technology
C. allow the entire class to use the same technology
D. provide technology software for home use
Stanine (STAndard NINE) - ✔✔A method of scaling test scores on a nine-point
standard scale with a mean of five and a standard deviation of two.
5 - Average
1 - Lowest
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Curriculum STUDY GUIDE Exam
Questions and Verified Answers
Project-based learning - ✔✔Student-centered pedagogy in which students
actively explore real-world challenges. Content can be personalized for diverse
learners.
Provide periodic review of lessons - ✔✔How can teachers best help students
with intellectual disabilities retain previously acquired skills?
Word-attack skills - ✔✔The set of skills a student uses to recognize and
understand words (e.g. context clues, visual recognition strategies, decoding,
sounding out, etc.).
Similar (students are more likely to transfer learning when the classroom
situation & the new situation are similar; i.e. authentic assignments) - ✔✔To
help students transfer learned skills to new situations, teachers should make
the learning situation and the opportunity to apply the skill as
____________________ as possible.
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,A student must have a permanent or fluctuating hearing loss that affects the
student's educational performance but is not included under the definition of
deafness. - ✔✔What is the IDEA definition of hearing impairment?
Curriculum-Based Assessment - ✔✔A method of monitoring student
educational progress through direct assessment of academic skills.
C. Evaluating progress using IEP objectives - ✔✔Which of the following is an
example of a curriculum-based assessment?
A. Using RTI to compare student performance
B. IQ test scores
C. Evaluating progress using IEP objectives
D. Standardized testing
Assessment in the student's native language - ✔✔For a bilingual student, what
type of extra assessment is necessary to determine baseline skills?
Heterogeneous grouping - ✔✔Forming groups of students with diverse abilities
(helpful for students with special needs to be included with stronger peers)
Homogeneous grouping - ✔✔Forming groups of students with similar abilities
(does not promote inclusion)
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, C. phonics and word recognition - ✔✔Students with learning disabilities benefit
from a whole-language approach in combination with direct instruction in:
A. auditory comprehension
B. visual-motor integration
C. phonics and word recognition
D. visual memory skills
D. provide technology software for home use - ✔✔In order to promote
successful use of assistive technology, teachers should try to _____________
whenever possible.
A. provide homework that utilizes the technology
B. limit work that does not use the technology
C. allow the entire class to use the same technology
D. provide technology software for home use
Stanine (STAndard NINE) - ✔✔A method of scaling test scores on a nine-point
standard scale with a mean of five and a standard deviation of two.
5 - Average
1 - Lowest
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