GACE Special Education General
Curriculum STUDY GUIDE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
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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
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
PASS
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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