WGU D002 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
RATED A+
✔✔Parental Rights and Procedural Safeguards
(Collaborating with stakeholders to meet student needs) - ✔✔A notice of procedural
safeguards guarantees parent and student rights under IDEA and offers options for
resolving differences with a school district.
Procedural rights and safeguards have to be presented to parents at least once a year
It is up to the parents to decide if they want to participate or how much they want to
participate in decisions regarding the education of their child
The law does not require the parents to participate
It grants them the opportunity to participate in educational decisions
✔✔Parent Involvement Types
(Collaborating with stakeholders to meet students needs) - ✔✔Familial-attitudinal
Collaborative-cooperative
✔✔5 basic steps to solving Ethical Dilemmas in Special Education
(Ethical Decision Making) - ✔✔1. Describe the context of the situation
2. Pose questions from each perspective
3. Identify alternative decisions
4. Identify consequences for each alternative
5. Monitor and modify the decision
✔✔LRE
(Ethical Decision Making) - ✔✔To the maximum extent appropriate children with
disabilities including children in public or private institutions or other care facilities are
educated with children who are nondisabled.
IDEA does not address age-appropriateness in LRE decisions
The courts discussed age-appropriateness in several decisions but did not include it in
any of the LRE approaches
There is significant support among educators for chronological age placements but
nether IDEA nor the courts have addressed this directly
IDEA states that extracurricular activities and non-academics must be addressed this
directly
, For some students with restrictive academic programming the non-academics provide
the only opportunity to interact with peers
Education in a separate classroom may lead to lower expectations
The value of interacting with a variety of peers in culturally sustaining way is lost in
segregated education
Separation or segregation does not provide equal opportunity
✔✔FAPE
(Ethical Decision MAking) - ✔✔Education services are designed to meet the individual
education needs of students with disabilities as adequately as the needs of nondisabled
students are met
When necessary the IEP team will work with parents to create an IEP or a written plan
for the Childs special education experience at school. By law an IEP must include things
like services progress monitoring and annual goals.
✔✔Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
(Ethical Decision Making) - ✔✔Federal statute designed to ensure that parents have
access to their children's educational records and to protect the privacy rights of parents
and children by requiring parental consent before private information about a student
record can be shared with others
FERPA provides procedures for parents and students over the age 18 to correct
educational records they feel are not accurate. Parents and students over the age 18
have the right to view these records. School districts must comply with a request by a
parent or student over the age 18 within a reasonable amount of time. 45 days or less
after the request for records
✔✔Universal Design for Learning Assessment
(CEC Professional Standards) - ✔✔Learning activities provide multiple means of
representation or modes of presentation and multiple means of action and expression.
✔✔Differentiated Assessment
(CEC Professional Standards) - ✔✔The what and how of instruction is tailored to the
student learning needs and preferences
✔✔Curriculum Based Assessments
(CEC Professional Standards) - ✔✔Students performance is compared to that of
classroom or school peers not to a national sample as is the case for most norm-
referenced test.
✔✔Performance Assessment
RATED A+
✔✔Parental Rights and Procedural Safeguards
(Collaborating with stakeholders to meet student needs) - ✔✔A notice of procedural
safeguards guarantees parent and student rights under IDEA and offers options for
resolving differences with a school district.
Procedural rights and safeguards have to be presented to parents at least once a year
It is up to the parents to decide if they want to participate or how much they want to
participate in decisions regarding the education of their child
The law does not require the parents to participate
It grants them the opportunity to participate in educational decisions
✔✔Parent Involvement Types
(Collaborating with stakeholders to meet students needs) - ✔✔Familial-attitudinal
Collaborative-cooperative
✔✔5 basic steps to solving Ethical Dilemmas in Special Education
(Ethical Decision Making) - ✔✔1. Describe the context of the situation
2. Pose questions from each perspective
3. Identify alternative decisions
4. Identify consequences for each alternative
5. Monitor and modify the decision
✔✔LRE
(Ethical Decision Making) - ✔✔To the maximum extent appropriate children with
disabilities including children in public or private institutions or other care facilities are
educated with children who are nondisabled.
IDEA does not address age-appropriateness in LRE decisions
The courts discussed age-appropriateness in several decisions but did not include it in
any of the LRE approaches
There is significant support among educators for chronological age placements but
nether IDEA nor the courts have addressed this directly
IDEA states that extracurricular activities and non-academics must be addressed this
directly
, For some students with restrictive academic programming the non-academics provide
the only opportunity to interact with peers
Education in a separate classroom may lead to lower expectations
The value of interacting with a variety of peers in culturally sustaining way is lost in
segregated education
Separation or segregation does not provide equal opportunity
✔✔FAPE
(Ethical Decision MAking) - ✔✔Education services are designed to meet the individual
education needs of students with disabilities as adequately as the needs of nondisabled
students are met
When necessary the IEP team will work with parents to create an IEP or a written plan
for the Childs special education experience at school. By law an IEP must include things
like services progress monitoring and annual goals.
✔✔Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
(Ethical Decision Making) - ✔✔Federal statute designed to ensure that parents have
access to their children's educational records and to protect the privacy rights of parents
and children by requiring parental consent before private information about a student
record can be shared with others
FERPA provides procedures for parents and students over the age 18 to correct
educational records they feel are not accurate. Parents and students over the age 18
have the right to view these records. School districts must comply with a request by a
parent or student over the age 18 within a reasonable amount of time. 45 days or less
after the request for records
✔✔Universal Design for Learning Assessment
(CEC Professional Standards) - ✔✔Learning activities provide multiple means of
representation or modes of presentation and multiple means of action and expression.
✔✔Differentiated Assessment
(CEC Professional Standards) - ✔✔The what and how of instruction is tailored to the
student learning needs and preferences
✔✔Curriculum Based Assessments
(CEC Professional Standards) - ✔✔Students performance is compared to that of
classroom or school peers not to a national sample as is the case for most norm-
referenced test.
✔✔Performance Assessment
