Special Education Certification Test
Questions and Answers
Adaptive Behavior Inventory - ANSWER-measures daily living skills, self-help,
communication, leisure, recreation, and vocation.
Adaptive Skills - ANSWER-skills needed to be successful in such areas as
communication, self-care, leisure, social skills
ADHD - ANSWER-Most commonly diagnosed behavioral disorder in children
Affects 3-6% of students
Age 23 - ANSWER-Must offer public education to students with intensive disabilities
On-job-coaching and independent living skills
Alphabetic Principle - ANSWER-The concept that letters represent sounds. One of the
earliest skills young readers must master in the emergent literacy stage.
Alternative Assessment - ANSWER-Open ended question, work out solution to problem,
perform a skill
Not on sheet of paper
Examples: Portfolios, Rating Scales, Item-based tests
Anecdotal Record - ANSWER-narrative of events taking place during an observation
which includes the date, time, and length of activity occurring.
Appropriate education (IEP) - ANSWER-A FAPE to all children who have been
identified as needing special education. Program must be tailored to the needs of the
student. Includes related services and supplementary aides and services if needed.
Reflect TEKS as closely as possible
Arithmetic Sequence - ANSWER-Adding a given value each time
Articulation Disorder - ANSWER-Difficulty making certain sounds
Sounds may be left off, added, changed, or distorted, which makes it hard for people to
understand the child
,Assessment Accommodations - ANSWER-Have students with disabilities have an equal
opportunity to demonstrate what they know
Setting, Presentation, Timing
Authentic Assessment - ANSWER-Constructed to represent real-world competencies as
much as possible.
May be a project or a simulation or a community-based activity.
A rubric that clearly relays project expectations and potential levels of performance on
the task is the most appropriate tool for evaluation.
Autism - ANSWER-Communication problems:
• Difficulty relating to people, things, and events
• Playing with toys and objects in unusual ways
• Difficulty adjusting to changes in routine or to familiar surroundings
• Repetititive body movements or behaviors
Behavioral Inhibition - ANSWER-Person's ability to interrupt a response once it has
started, to delay a response, or to withhold a response
Benchmark - ANSWER-Measures group performance against an established standard
at defined points along the path toward the standard
Blending - ANSWER-Phonic instruction in which letter sounds are blended together so
that students can decode words
Bloom's Taxonomy - ANSWER-Knowledge - observation and recall of information
Comprehension - understanding information
Application - use information
Analysis - breaking information apart
Synthesis - use old ideas to create new ones
Evaluation - compare and discriminate between ideas
Capitalization Conventions - ANSWER-Mistakes in capitalization
Career and Technical Education - ANSWER-Provided within a school setting and it
assists students, those with and without disabilities.
Cerebral Palsy - ANSWER-• Athetoid CP (also called dyskinetic CP) can affect
movements of the entire body. Typically, this form of CP involves slow, uncon- trolled
body movements and low muscle tone that makes it hard for the person to sit straight
and walk. This form occurs in 10-20% of all cases.
• Ataxic CP involves poor coordination, balance, and depth perception and occurs in
approximately 5-10% of all cases.
, • Mixed CP is a combination of the symptoms listed above. A child with mixed CP has
both high and low tone muscle. Some muscles are too tight, and others are tooloose,
creating a mix of stiffness and involuntary movements.
• Diplegia—This means only the legs are affected.
• Hemiplegia—This means one half of the body (such as the right arm and leg) is
affected.
• Quadriplegia—This means both arms and legs are affected, sometimes including the
facial muscles and torso.
Choral Reading - ANSWER-3 or more students read text together out loud
Cloze Procedure - ANSWER-A procedure in which a student demonstrates
comprehension of reading by supplying missing words
Cluster Sampling - ANSWER-A random selection of groups
Co-morbidity - ANSWER-secondary or tertiary disability that exists alongside a child's
primary diagnosis.
Cognitive- Behavior Training - ANSWER-A method for changing behavior by influencing
how students think about their actions
Community-based instruction - ANSWER-self contains classrooms to prepare students
to transition into community
alterative learning environment
practice ordering food
Competitive Employment - ANSWER-Employment in which everyone competes with
everyone else on the same playing field for jobs and no one receive any addition
support or services than anyone else in the same job
Concrete to Abstract Conceptual Understanding - ANSWER-Visual or pictorial
representations of objects
Context Clues - ANSWER-Words around an unknown word in a text
Convenience Sampling - ANSWER-Uses data that is readily and easily obtained
Conventional spelling - ANSWER-demonstrate comprehension of the English
orthographic system and its rules in spelling; words are frequently spelled accurately
Corrective Feedback - ANSWER-Allow students to correct mistakes as they make them
As a student is completing a problem
Questions and Answers
Adaptive Behavior Inventory - ANSWER-measures daily living skills, self-help,
communication, leisure, recreation, and vocation.
Adaptive Skills - ANSWER-skills needed to be successful in such areas as
communication, self-care, leisure, social skills
ADHD - ANSWER-Most commonly diagnosed behavioral disorder in children
Affects 3-6% of students
Age 23 - ANSWER-Must offer public education to students with intensive disabilities
On-job-coaching and independent living skills
Alphabetic Principle - ANSWER-The concept that letters represent sounds. One of the
earliest skills young readers must master in the emergent literacy stage.
Alternative Assessment - ANSWER-Open ended question, work out solution to problem,
perform a skill
Not on sheet of paper
Examples: Portfolios, Rating Scales, Item-based tests
Anecdotal Record - ANSWER-narrative of events taking place during an observation
which includes the date, time, and length of activity occurring.
Appropriate education (IEP) - ANSWER-A FAPE to all children who have been
identified as needing special education. Program must be tailored to the needs of the
student. Includes related services and supplementary aides and services if needed.
Reflect TEKS as closely as possible
Arithmetic Sequence - ANSWER-Adding a given value each time
Articulation Disorder - ANSWER-Difficulty making certain sounds
Sounds may be left off, added, changed, or distorted, which makes it hard for people to
understand the child
,Assessment Accommodations - ANSWER-Have students with disabilities have an equal
opportunity to demonstrate what they know
Setting, Presentation, Timing
Authentic Assessment - ANSWER-Constructed to represent real-world competencies as
much as possible.
May be a project or a simulation or a community-based activity.
A rubric that clearly relays project expectations and potential levels of performance on
the task is the most appropriate tool for evaluation.
Autism - ANSWER-Communication problems:
• Difficulty relating to people, things, and events
• Playing with toys and objects in unusual ways
• Difficulty adjusting to changes in routine or to familiar surroundings
• Repetititive body movements or behaviors
Behavioral Inhibition - ANSWER-Person's ability to interrupt a response once it has
started, to delay a response, or to withhold a response
Benchmark - ANSWER-Measures group performance against an established standard
at defined points along the path toward the standard
Blending - ANSWER-Phonic instruction in which letter sounds are blended together so
that students can decode words
Bloom's Taxonomy - ANSWER-Knowledge - observation and recall of information
Comprehension - understanding information
Application - use information
Analysis - breaking information apart
Synthesis - use old ideas to create new ones
Evaluation - compare and discriminate between ideas
Capitalization Conventions - ANSWER-Mistakes in capitalization
Career and Technical Education - ANSWER-Provided within a school setting and it
assists students, those with and without disabilities.
Cerebral Palsy - ANSWER-• Athetoid CP (also called dyskinetic CP) can affect
movements of the entire body. Typically, this form of CP involves slow, uncon- trolled
body movements and low muscle tone that makes it hard for the person to sit straight
and walk. This form occurs in 10-20% of all cases.
• Ataxic CP involves poor coordination, balance, and depth perception and occurs in
approximately 5-10% of all cases.
, • Mixed CP is a combination of the symptoms listed above. A child with mixed CP has
both high and low tone muscle. Some muscles are too tight, and others are tooloose,
creating a mix of stiffness and involuntary movements.
• Diplegia—This means only the legs are affected.
• Hemiplegia—This means one half of the body (such as the right arm and leg) is
affected.
• Quadriplegia—This means both arms and legs are affected, sometimes including the
facial muscles and torso.
Choral Reading - ANSWER-3 or more students read text together out loud
Cloze Procedure - ANSWER-A procedure in which a student demonstrates
comprehension of reading by supplying missing words
Cluster Sampling - ANSWER-A random selection of groups
Co-morbidity - ANSWER-secondary or tertiary disability that exists alongside a child's
primary diagnosis.
Cognitive- Behavior Training - ANSWER-A method for changing behavior by influencing
how students think about their actions
Community-based instruction - ANSWER-self contains classrooms to prepare students
to transition into community
alterative learning environment
practice ordering food
Competitive Employment - ANSWER-Employment in which everyone competes with
everyone else on the same playing field for jobs and no one receive any addition
support or services than anyone else in the same job
Concrete to Abstract Conceptual Understanding - ANSWER-Visual or pictorial
representations of objects
Context Clues - ANSWER-Words around an unknown word in a text
Convenience Sampling - ANSWER-Uses data that is readily and easily obtained
Conventional spelling - ANSWER-demonstrate comprehension of the English
orthographic system and its rules in spelling; words are frequently spelled accurately
Corrective Feedback - ANSWER-Allow students to correct mistakes as they make them
As a student is completing a problem
