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Project-based learning - -Student-centered -For a bilingual student, what type of extra
pedagogy in which students actively explore real- assessment is necessary to determine baseline
world challenges. Content can be personalized for skills?
diverse learners.
Heterogeneous grouping - -Forming groups of
Provide periodic review of lessons - -How can students with diverse abilities (helpful for students
teachers best help students with intellectual with special needs to be included with stronger peers)
disabilities retain previously acquired skills?
Homogeneous grouping - -Forming groups of
Word-attack skills - -The set of skills a student students with similar abilities (does not promote
uses to recognize and understand words (e.g. inclusion)
context clues, visual recognition strategies, decoding,
sounding out, etc.).
C. phonics and word recognition - -Students
with learning disabilities benefit from a whole-
Similar (students are more likely to transfer learning language approach in combination with direct
when the classroom situation & the new situation are instruction in:
similar; i.e. authentic assignments) - -To help A. auditory comprehension
students transfer learned skills to new situations, B. visual-motor integration
teachers should make the learning situation and the C. phonics and word recognition
opportunity to apply the skill as D. visual memory skills
____________________ as possible.
D. provide technology software for home use - -
A student must have a permanent or fluctuating In order to promote successful use of assistive
hearing loss that affects the student's educational technology, teachers should try to _____________
performance but is not included under the definition whenever possible.
of deafness. - -What is the IDEA definition of A. provide homework that utilizes the technology
hearing impairment? 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
Curriculum-Based Assessment - -A method of
monitoring student educational progress through
direct assessment of academic skills. 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.
C. Evaluating progress using IEP objectives - -
Which of the following is an example of a curriculum-
based assessment? 5 - Average
A. Using RTI to compare student performance
B. IQ test scores 1 - Lowest
C. Evaluating progress using IEP objectives
D. Standardized testing 9 - Highest - -What Stanine score indicates an
average skill level?
Assessment in the student's native language - What is the lowest possible Stanine score?
, GACE Special Education General Curriculum Study Guide with
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education teacher
What is the highest possible Stanine score? C. observes the general education teacher and offers
advice and support for his or her independent
teaching
Grade-equivalent score - -Type of scoring that D. manages the behavior concerns of special
represents the grade level and month of the typical education students while the general education
(median; 50th percentile) score for students. teacher focuses on academic content
A grade-equivalent score of 4.2 indicates a score that Response cost - -A behavior management
the typical student would earn in the second month of procedure in which reinforcers are withdrawn as a
4th grade. - -Explain what a grade-equivalent consequence for inappropriate behavior in an attempt
score of 4.2 means. to decrease the behavior. This system is often used
with a token economy and needs to be tied to the
occurrence of specific, observable behavior.
Remedial instruction - -One-on-one or small
group instruction that focuses on the needs of the
individual student. A. visual reminders of appropriate behavior - -
For students with autism, which of the following is
likely to help increase appropriate behavior?
Compensatory approach - -Instructional A. visual reminders of appropriate behavior
approach that looks for ways to build on a student's B. peer buddy to help regulate behavior
strengths and work around weaknesses when C. allowing students to opt out of frustrating academic
remedial instruction has not made the desired tasks
progress. D. seating students at the front of the classroom
C. learners with disabilities will have an opportunity to
Metacognitive strategy - -Instructional
achieve that is commensurate with that of their peers
approach used to help students understand the way
they learn and allow students to think about their - -On the basis of such cases as Hudson v.
thinking. Rowley (1982), the courts determined that
"appropriate education" means that:
A. students will have all the resources and related
services needed to fulfill their potential
Scripted reading instruction - -A commercial
B. services that maximize achievement will be
reading program where the program, not the
provided to students as long as the cost is not
classroom teacher, determines what the teacher
prohibitive
says during instruction and/or the particular lessons
C. learners with disabilities will have an opportunity to
and the instructional pace.
achieve that is commensurate with that of their peers
D. interpreters will be provided for all deaf students
B. shares all responsibilities, including both behavior
management and academic content, with the general
Hudson v. Rowley (1982) - -Court case that
education teacher - -In inclusion settings, the
defined the term "free and appropriate education" in
special education teacher:
the "least restrictive environment"
A. acts as an assistant to the general education
teacher
B. shares all responsibilities, including both behavior
management and academic content, with the general E. Both A & D - -An Individualized Education
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Project-based learning - -Student-centered -For a bilingual student, what type of extra
pedagogy in which students actively explore real- assessment is necessary to determine baseline
world challenges. Content can be personalized for skills?
diverse learners.
Heterogeneous grouping - -Forming groups of
Provide periodic review of lessons - -How can students with diverse abilities (helpful for students
teachers best help students with intellectual with special needs to be included with stronger peers)
disabilities retain previously acquired skills?
Homogeneous grouping - -Forming groups of
Word-attack skills - -The set of skills a student students with similar abilities (does not promote
uses to recognize and understand words (e.g. inclusion)
context clues, visual recognition strategies, decoding,
sounding out, etc.).
C. phonics and word recognition - -Students
with learning disabilities benefit from a whole-
Similar (students are more likely to transfer learning language approach in combination with direct
when the classroom situation & the new situation are instruction in:
similar; i.e. authentic assignments) - -To help A. auditory comprehension
students transfer learned skills to new situations, B. visual-motor integration
teachers should make the learning situation and the C. phonics and word recognition
opportunity to apply the skill as D. visual memory skills
____________________ as possible.
D. provide technology software for home use - -
A student must have a permanent or fluctuating In order to promote successful use of assistive
hearing loss that affects the student's educational technology, teachers should try to _____________
performance but is not included under the definition whenever possible.
of deafness. - -What is the IDEA definition of A. provide homework that utilizes the technology
hearing impairment? 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
Curriculum-Based Assessment - -A method of
monitoring student educational progress through
direct assessment of academic skills. 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.
C. Evaluating progress using IEP objectives - -
Which of the following is an example of a curriculum-
based assessment? 5 - Average
A. Using RTI to compare student performance
B. IQ test scores 1 - Lowest
C. Evaluating progress using IEP objectives
D. Standardized testing 9 - Highest - -What Stanine score indicates an
average skill level?
Assessment in the student's native language - What is the lowest possible Stanine score?
, GACE Special Education General Curriculum Study Guide with
Complete Solutions
education teacher
What is the highest possible Stanine score? C. observes the general education teacher and offers
advice and support for his or her independent
teaching
Grade-equivalent score - -Type of scoring that D. manages the behavior concerns of special
represents the grade level and month of the typical education students while the general education
(median; 50th percentile) score for students. teacher focuses on academic content
A grade-equivalent score of 4.2 indicates a score that Response cost - -A behavior management
the typical student would earn in the second month of procedure in which reinforcers are withdrawn as a
4th grade. - -Explain what a grade-equivalent consequence for inappropriate behavior in an attempt
score of 4.2 means. to decrease the behavior. This system is often used
with a token economy and needs to be tied to the
occurrence of specific, observable behavior.
Remedial instruction - -One-on-one or small
group instruction that focuses on the needs of the
individual student. A. visual reminders of appropriate behavior - -
For students with autism, which of the following is
likely to help increase appropriate behavior?
Compensatory approach - -Instructional A. visual reminders of appropriate behavior
approach that looks for ways to build on a student's B. peer buddy to help regulate behavior
strengths and work around weaknesses when C. allowing students to opt out of frustrating academic
remedial instruction has not made the desired tasks
progress. D. seating students at the front of the classroom
C. learners with disabilities will have an opportunity to
Metacognitive strategy - -Instructional
achieve that is commensurate with that of their peers
approach used to help students understand the way
they learn and allow students to think about their - -On the basis of such cases as Hudson v.
thinking. Rowley (1982), the courts determined that
"appropriate education" means that:
A. students will have all the resources and related
services needed to fulfill their potential
Scripted reading instruction - -A commercial
B. services that maximize achievement will be
reading program where the program, not the
provided to students as long as the cost is not
classroom teacher, determines what the teacher
prohibitive
says during instruction and/or the particular lessons
C. learners with disabilities will have an opportunity to
and the instructional pace.
achieve that is commensurate with that of their peers
D. interpreters will be provided for all deaf students
B. shares all responsibilities, including both behavior
management and academic content, with the general
Hudson v. Rowley (1982) - -Court case that
education teacher - -In inclusion settings, the
defined the term "free and appropriate education" in
special education teacher:
the "least restrictive environment"
A. acts as an assistant to the general education
teacher
B. shares all responsibilities, including both behavior
management and academic content, with the general E. Both A & D - -An Individualized Education
