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SWD Test Questions with Answers (100%
Correct Answers)
For a student with emotional disabilities who receives instruction in a general
education setting, which of the following learning needs would be most
important? Answer: Frequent feedback from the teacher
According to research, boys who have been identified with a behavioral
disorder are more likely than girls with this disorder to Answer: Display
external symptoms of the disorder, especially in school setting
Compared to their classmates without disabilities, students with mild mental
retardation are likely having significantly more trouble doing which of the
following ? Answer: Generalizing skills or concepts from one setting to another
Which of the following communicative tasks would likely pose the greatest
challenge to a student with receptive language delay? Answer: Describing one
key event in a story read aloud by the teacher.
While meeting with parents of Paul, a student with a learning disability, a
special educator learns that they feel embarrassed by his disability. After
confiding this information the parents go on the assert that Paul is smart but
lazy. They add that laziness is the main reason that he does not perform well as
either their friends' children or his own siblings. Which of the following would
be the special educator's best initial response to Paul's parents in this situation?
Answer: Providing them with the names of some local family counselors and
advising them to seek professional help in dealing with their feelings.
The medications typically used to treat personality disorders or psychoses in
children with emotional disorders will most likely have which of the following
side effects? Answer: Headaches and nausea
Jacob is a student who has been diagnosed with anxiety disorder related to
public performance. This form of anxiety will make it significantly more
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difficult for Jacob to complete which of the following school tasks? Answer:
Reading aloud in class
Barbara is a student with mild retardation who has delays in cognitive, social
and behavioral functioning. She has recently joined an inclusion class for most
of the school day. In this situation, Barbara is likely to need the most support in
which of the following areas? Answer: Interacting appropriately with her new
classmates
Research has shown that students with learning disabilities who have visual or
auditory processing deficits are likely to demonstrate delays are typically most
apparent in students' difficulties with Answer: recognizing the feelings and
social cues exhibited by others.
In students with learning disabilities, which of the following is disability-related
factor commonly linked to low academic performance? Answer: negative
expectations for their own achievement
Which of the following best describes content validity as it relates to
assessment? Answer: The degree to which as instrument measures the
theoretical construct it intends to measure
The ability of an instrument to test the skill areas it supports to measure
a special educator examines a student's writing sample and underlines the
misspelled words as shown below:
My Dad and I went to the zoo
We saw bunnys and ponys and little kittys, and we even saw a bear, and two
puppys.
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The special educator determines that the student does not know how to write
the plural form noun ending in y.
In this situation, the special educator is using which of the following types of
assessment? Answer: Error Analysis
A special educator uses a performance assessment for students with disabilities.
In the assessment, students must plan and conduct simple science experiment
to answer a question. Compared to paper-and-pencil exams, this type of
performance assessment is more effective in providing information about
students' ability to: Answer: apply concepts and skills in realistic situations.
A committee of special education (CSE) wants to gain the support of a student's
parents during the nondiscriminatory assessment process. The CSE can best
accomplish that goal by: Answer: inviting the parents to take part in an
observational assessment of their child's work habits at school
a general education teacher in an inclusion classroom asks a special educator
for guidance on planning assessments that are fair to students with disabilities.
The special educator's most appropriate response would be to advise the
teacher to design assessments that: Answer: Measure the progress of students
with disabilities toward achieving their individual learning goals
Research shows that curriculum-based assessment will lead to the greatest
academic gains for students when the teacher: Answer: uses test results to
modify instructional plans
Use maldiscriminatory evaluation scores below to answer the question that
follows:
The student profile represented by these results is most consistent with the
presence of: Answer: Learning disability
SWD Test Questions with Answers (100%
Correct Answers)
For a student with emotional disabilities who receives instruction in a general
education setting, which of the following learning needs would be most
important? Answer: Frequent feedback from the teacher
According to research, boys who have been identified with a behavioral
disorder are more likely than girls with this disorder to Answer: Display
external symptoms of the disorder, especially in school setting
Compared to their classmates without disabilities, students with mild mental
retardation are likely having significantly more trouble doing which of the
following ? Answer: Generalizing skills or concepts from one setting to another
Which of the following communicative tasks would likely pose the greatest
challenge to a student with receptive language delay? Answer: Describing one
key event in a story read aloud by the teacher.
While meeting with parents of Paul, a student with a learning disability, a
special educator learns that they feel embarrassed by his disability. After
confiding this information the parents go on the assert that Paul is smart but
lazy. They add that laziness is the main reason that he does not perform well as
either their friends' children or his own siblings. Which of the following would
be the special educator's best initial response to Paul's parents in this situation?
Answer: Providing them with the names of some local family counselors and
advising them to seek professional help in dealing with their feelings.
The medications typically used to treat personality disorders or psychoses in
children with emotional disorders will most likely have which of the following
side effects? Answer: Headaches and nausea
Jacob is a student who has been diagnosed with anxiety disorder related to
public performance. This form of anxiety will make it significantly more
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difficult for Jacob to complete which of the following school tasks? Answer:
Reading aloud in class
Barbara is a student with mild retardation who has delays in cognitive, social
and behavioral functioning. She has recently joined an inclusion class for most
of the school day. In this situation, Barbara is likely to need the most support in
which of the following areas? Answer: Interacting appropriately with her new
classmates
Research has shown that students with learning disabilities who have visual or
auditory processing deficits are likely to demonstrate delays are typically most
apparent in students' difficulties with Answer: recognizing the feelings and
social cues exhibited by others.
In students with learning disabilities, which of the following is disability-related
factor commonly linked to low academic performance? Answer: negative
expectations for their own achievement
Which of the following best describes content validity as it relates to
assessment? Answer: The degree to which as instrument measures the
theoretical construct it intends to measure
The ability of an instrument to test the skill areas it supports to measure
a special educator examines a student's writing sample and underlines the
misspelled words as shown below:
My Dad and I went to the zoo
We saw bunnys and ponys and little kittys, and we even saw a bear, and two
puppys.
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The special educator determines that the student does not know how to write
the plural form noun ending in y.
In this situation, the special educator is using which of the following types of
assessment? Answer: Error Analysis
A special educator uses a performance assessment for students with disabilities.
In the assessment, students must plan and conduct simple science experiment
to answer a question. Compared to paper-and-pencil exams, this type of
performance assessment is more effective in providing information about
students' ability to: Answer: apply concepts and skills in realistic situations.
A committee of special education (CSE) wants to gain the support of a student's
parents during the nondiscriminatory assessment process. The CSE can best
accomplish that goal by: Answer: inviting the parents to take part in an
observational assessment of their child's work habits at school
a general education teacher in an inclusion classroom asks a special educator
for guidance on planning assessments that are fair to students with disabilities.
The special educator's most appropriate response would be to advise the
teacher to design assessments that: Answer: Measure the progress of students
with disabilities toward achieving their individual learning goals
Research shows that curriculum-based assessment will lead to the greatest
academic gains for students when the teacher: Answer: uses test results to
modify instructional plans
Use maldiscriminatory evaluation scores below to answer the question that
follows:
The student profile represented by these results is most consistent with the
presence of: Answer: Learning disability
