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WEST-E special education study Exam
Questions And Answers |Latest 2025 |
Guaranteed Pass.
Standardized tests are often used for? - Answer✔entry or placemet in specific programs and to
diagnose learning problems or strengths
Where does the school accountability movement come from? - Answer✔The public loss of
confidence in education
Reliability- - Answer✔relates to the accuracy with which skills & knowledge are measured
Valid reasons for assessing students- - Answer✔inform decision makers about student
behaviors, monitor student progress toward a goal, screen students for specific purposes
Why testing accommodations for students with disabilities are important- - Answer✔help
ensure that the results will be an accurate indication of student ability, enable most students to
be tested, enable testing practices to be deemed fair to all students
Most critical problem that can result from standardized achievement test accommodation- -
Answer✔accommodation changes the nature of the measurement
Fair & ethical testing procedures- - Answer✔research scores from individual minority
populations to determine whether scores are comparable, provide non-English-speaking
students the opportunity to take mathematics & science exams in their native language, grade
essays without regard for who wrote
Misuses of state-mandated standardized achievement test scores- - Answer✔assign students to
remedial or accelerated tracks based solely on their scores, compute glass grades using
standardized test scores, compare scores on the exam to in-class quizzes
Criterion-Referenced Tests- - Answer✔assessments that rate how thoroughly students have
mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge
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Norm-Referenced Tests- - Answer✔assessments that compare the performance of one student
against the performance of others
Common benefit of standardized achievement tests- - Answer✔scores are comparable across
populations
Formative Assessment- - Answer✔continuous feedback to the teacher, test smaller units,
monitor progress, informal
Summative Assessment- - Answer✔final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective
Selected Response- - Answer✔-test items in which respondents can select from one or more
possible answers, without requiring the scorer to interpret their response
- limited to presented options, common on standardized achievement tests
Constructed Response- - Answer✔-requires student to supply rather than to select the answer
-difficulty scoring, requires students to support an argument with multiple lines of reasoning,
depends on writing ability
Primary purpose of the Woodcock Reading Mastery Exam(WRM)- - Answer✔achievement
Eraut's major criticism of using reflection - Answer✔sometimes decision need to be made
quickly, and there is not time for reflection
Reflectivity- - Answer✔-tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts
-help individuals self-correct behaviors and ideas, empower learners to take ownership of ideas
Foreclosure- - Answer✔an adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on
parental choices, not on his or her own
Identity Diffusion- - Answer✔inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self; adolescent
has few commitments to goals and values, and seems apathetic about finding an identity; if an
identity crisis has been experienced, it has not been resolved
Moratorium- - Answer✔adolescent experiments with goals and values by abandoning some of
those set by parents and society; no definite commitments have been made to occupations or
ideologies; the adolescent is in the midst of an identity crisis
Identity Achievement- - Answer✔adolescent establishes an identity in which clear decisions
about occupations and ideologies have been consciously made
Birth - Age 2- - Answer✔body quadruples in weight and the brain triples in weight, neurons
branch & grow into dense connective networks between the brain & the rest of the body
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WEST-E special education study Exam
Questions And Answers |Latest 2025 |
Guaranteed Pass.
Standardized tests are often used for? - Answer✔entry or placemet in specific programs and to
diagnose learning problems or strengths
Where does the school accountability movement come from? - Answer✔The public loss of
confidence in education
Reliability- - Answer✔relates to the accuracy with which skills & knowledge are measured
Valid reasons for assessing students- - Answer✔inform decision makers about student
behaviors, monitor student progress toward a goal, screen students for specific purposes
Why testing accommodations for students with disabilities are important- - Answer✔help
ensure that the results will be an accurate indication of student ability, enable most students to
be tested, enable testing practices to be deemed fair to all students
Most critical problem that can result from standardized achievement test accommodation- -
Answer✔accommodation changes the nature of the measurement
Fair & ethical testing procedures- - Answer✔research scores from individual minority
populations to determine whether scores are comparable, provide non-English-speaking
students the opportunity to take mathematics & science exams in their native language, grade
essays without regard for who wrote
Misuses of state-mandated standardized achievement test scores- - Answer✔assign students to
remedial or accelerated tracks based solely on their scores, compute glass grades using
standardized test scores, compare scores on the exam to in-class quizzes
Criterion-Referenced Tests- - Answer✔assessments that rate how thoroughly students have
mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge
1
, ©THEBRIGHT 2024/2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 10:15AM A+
Norm-Referenced Tests- - Answer✔assessments that compare the performance of one student
against the performance of others
Common benefit of standardized achievement tests- - Answer✔scores are comparable across
populations
Formative Assessment- - Answer✔continuous feedback to the teacher, test smaller units,
monitor progress, informal
Summative Assessment- - Answer✔final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective
Selected Response- - Answer✔-test items in which respondents can select from one or more
possible answers, without requiring the scorer to interpret their response
- limited to presented options, common on standardized achievement tests
Constructed Response- - Answer✔-requires student to supply rather than to select the answer
-difficulty scoring, requires students to support an argument with multiple lines of reasoning,
depends on writing ability
Primary purpose of the Woodcock Reading Mastery Exam(WRM)- - Answer✔achievement
Eraut's major criticism of using reflection - Answer✔sometimes decision need to be made
quickly, and there is not time for reflection
Reflectivity- - Answer✔-tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts
-help individuals self-correct behaviors and ideas, empower learners to take ownership of ideas
Foreclosure- - Answer✔an adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on
parental choices, not on his or her own
Identity Diffusion- - Answer✔inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self; adolescent
has few commitments to goals and values, and seems apathetic about finding an identity; if an
identity crisis has been experienced, it has not been resolved
Moratorium- - Answer✔adolescent experiments with goals and values by abandoning some of
those set by parents and society; no definite commitments have been made to occupations or
ideologies; the adolescent is in the midst of an identity crisis
Identity Achievement- - Answer✔adolescent establishes an identity in which clear decisions
about occupations and ideologies have been consciously made
Birth - Age 2- - Answer✔body quadruples in weight and the brain triples in weight, neurons
branch & grow into dense connective networks between the brain & the rest of the body
2
