FTCE EXCEPTIONAL STUDENT EDUCATION CORE
MAIN EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
Portfolio Assessment - ✔✔A collection of work produced by a student to check student
effort, progress and achievement such as a list of books that the student read, a
collection of tests and homework, etc.
✔✔Florida Alternative Assessment - ✔✔a performance-based alternative assessment of
student mastery of Access Point
✔✔Disproportionality - ✔✔students from certain racial/ethnic, low socioeconomic status,
non-majority linguistic backgrounds and English language learners are overrepresented
in special education programs
✔✔Test Bias - ✔✔when certain groups consistently score differently from other groups
(e.g., females tend to score lower than males)
✔✔Curriculum-based measurement (CBM) - ✔✔provides information about student
mastery of the general education curriculum
✔✔Summative Assessment - ✔✔the process of evaluation student achievement at the
end of an instructional period (a quiz administrated by the teacher at the end of an
instructional unit, a student's report card, a "high stakes", state achievement test
administrated at the end of the school year.
,✔✔Formative Assessment - ✔✔assessments are "low stakes", their main purpose is not
to judge students performance but rather to monitor student progress and identify ways
that instruction can be improved overall or tailored to specific students.
✔✔Response to Intervention (RTI) - ✔✔The three levels of intensity, or tiers are as in
Tier 1 - at risk students receive additional instruction for several weeks; in Tier 2 -
students receive more intensive and longer-lasting interventions if they have not
responded to Tier 1; in Tier 3 - students receive more intensive, individualized
interventions if they have not responded to Tier 2
✔✔Sensorimotor stage - ✔✔Piaget divided this stage into six substages: Reflexes (0-1
month); Primary Circular Reactions (1-4 months); Secondary Circular Reactions (4-8
months); Coordination of Reactions (8-12 months), Tertiary Circular Reactions (12-18
months); Early Representational Thought (18-24 months)
✔✔Early Representational Thought - ✔✔18-24 months, children begin representing
things or events with symbols. A significant sensorimotor development is object
permanence, i.e., realizing things still exist when they are out of sight.
✔✔0-1 month - ✔✔Reflexes (sensorimotor stage) What age?
✔✔1-4 months - ✔✔infants find accidental actions like thumb-sucking pleasurable and
then intentionally repeat them (Primary Circular Reactions of sensorimotor stage) What
age?
✔✔4-8 months - ✔✔Secondary Circular Reactions (Sensorimotor stage): infants
intentionally repeat actions to evoke environmental effects. What age?
✔✔8-12 months - ✔✔Coordination of Reactions (sensorimotor stage): children repeat
actions intentionally, comprehend cause and effect and combine schemas (concepts).
What age?
✔✔12-18 months - ✔✔Tertiary Circular Reactions (sensorimotor stage): children
experiment with trial-and-error. What age?
✔✔18-24 months - ✔✔Early Representational Thought (sensorimotor stage): children
begin representing things and events with symbols. A significant development is Object
Permanence, i.e., realizing that thing still exist when out of sight. What age?
✔✔Early Representational Thought (sensorimotor stage): - ✔✔18-24 months
✔✔Tertiary Circular Reactions (sensorimotor stage) - ✔✔12-18 months
, ✔✔Coordination of Reactions (sensorimotor stage): - ✔✔8-12 months
✔✔Secondary Circular Reactions (sensorimotor stage) - ✔✔4-8 months
✔✔Primary Circular Reactions (sensorimotor stage) - ✔✔1-4 months
✔✔Reflexes (sensorimotor stage) - ✔✔0-1 month
✔✔Ecological assessment - ✔✔The goal of the assessment is to identify environments
in which the student functions with greater or lesser difficulty, to understand what
contributes to these differences in functioning and to draw useful implications for
instructional planning.
✔✔Authentic assessment - ✔✔provides descriptions of student performance on real-life
tasks carried out in real world settings.
✔✔Accountability - ✔✔The process of requiring students to demonstrate that they have
met specified common core standards and holding teachers responsible for students'
performance is the best described as
✔✔Itinerant teachers - ✔✔Professional who travel between two or more school sites to
provide services to students.
✔✔The Transition plan (Form 1 of the IFSP - Individualized Family Support Plan) -
✔✔The paperwork that needs to be completed after the transition conference. the IFSP
is needed for any child with developmental delays who attends the Early Step Program.
✔✔Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten Program - ✔✔the program enacted in 2004, which is
designed to prepare four-year-old children for kindergarten and lay the foundation for
their success is know as
✔✔Performance-based assessment - ✔✔assessment that measures learning
processes
✔✔Norm-based assessments - ✔✔Assessments that give us some idea of what
students need to know to achieve grade level performance are referred as
✔✔Informed consent - ✔✔Parents being noticed in their native language of all
educational activities to be conducted during a nondiscriminatory evaluation of their
child is called
✔✔Curriculum based assessments - ✔✔Assessments that are used to determine how a
student is performing in or mastering the actual curriculum.
MAIN EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
Portfolio Assessment - ✔✔A collection of work produced by a student to check student
effort, progress and achievement such as a list of books that the student read, a
collection of tests and homework, etc.
✔✔Florida Alternative Assessment - ✔✔a performance-based alternative assessment of
student mastery of Access Point
✔✔Disproportionality - ✔✔students from certain racial/ethnic, low socioeconomic status,
non-majority linguistic backgrounds and English language learners are overrepresented
in special education programs
✔✔Test Bias - ✔✔when certain groups consistently score differently from other groups
(e.g., females tend to score lower than males)
✔✔Curriculum-based measurement (CBM) - ✔✔provides information about student
mastery of the general education curriculum
✔✔Summative Assessment - ✔✔the process of evaluation student achievement at the
end of an instructional period (a quiz administrated by the teacher at the end of an
instructional unit, a student's report card, a "high stakes", state achievement test
administrated at the end of the school year.
,✔✔Formative Assessment - ✔✔assessments are "low stakes", their main purpose is not
to judge students performance but rather to monitor student progress and identify ways
that instruction can be improved overall or tailored to specific students.
✔✔Response to Intervention (RTI) - ✔✔The three levels of intensity, or tiers are as in
Tier 1 - at risk students receive additional instruction for several weeks; in Tier 2 -
students receive more intensive and longer-lasting interventions if they have not
responded to Tier 1; in Tier 3 - students receive more intensive, individualized
interventions if they have not responded to Tier 2
✔✔Sensorimotor stage - ✔✔Piaget divided this stage into six substages: Reflexes (0-1
month); Primary Circular Reactions (1-4 months); Secondary Circular Reactions (4-8
months); Coordination of Reactions (8-12 months), Tertiary Circular Reactions (12-18
months); Early Representational Thought (18-24 months)
✔✔Early Representational Thought - ✔✔18-24 months, children begin representing
things or events with symbols. A significant sensorimotor development is object
permanence, i.e., realizing things still exist when they are out of sight.
✔✔0-1 month - ✔✔Reflexes (sensorimotor stage) What age?
✔✔1-4 months - ✔✔infants find accidental actions like thumb-sucking pleasurable and
then intentionally repeat them (Primary Circular Reactions of sensorimotor stage) What
age?
✔✔4-8 months - ✔✔Secondary Circular Reactions (Sensorimotor stage): infants
intentionally repeat actions to evoke environmental effects. What age?
✔✔8-12 months - ✔✔Coordination of Reactions (sensorimotor stage): children repeat
actions intentionally, comprehend cause and effect and combine schemas (concepts).
What age?
✔✔12-18 months - ✔✔Tertiary Circular Reactions (sensorimotor stage): children
experiment with trial-and-error. What age?
✔✔18-24 months - ✔✔Early Representational Thought (sensorimotor stage): children
begin representing things and events with symbols. A significant development is Object
Permanence, i.e., realizing that thing still exist when out of sight. What age?
✔✔Early Representational Thought (sensorimotor stage): - ✔✔18-24 months
✔✔Tertiary Circular Reactions (sensorimotor stage) - ✔✔12-18 months
, ✔✔Coordination of Reactions (sensorimotor stage): - ✔✔8-12 months
✔✔Secondary Circular Reactions (sensorimotor stage) - ✔✔4-8 months
✔✔Primary Circular Reactions (sensorimotor stage) - ✔✔1-4 months
✔✔Reflexes (sensorimotor stage) - ✔✔0-1 month
✔✔Ecological assessment - ✔✔The goal of the assessment is to identify environments
in which the student functions with greater or lesser difficulty, to understand what
contributes to these differences in functioning and to draw useful implications for
instructional planning.
✔✔Authentic assessment - ✔✔provides descriptions of student performance on real-life
tasks carried out in real world settings.
✔✔Accountability - ✔✔The process of requiring students to demonstrate that they have
met specified common core standards and holding teachers responsible for students'
performance is the best described as
✔✔Itinerant teachers - ✔✔Professional who travel between two or more school sites to
provide services to students.
✔✔The Transition plan (Form 1 of the IFSP - Individualized Family Support Plan) -
✔✔The paperwork that needs to be completed after the transition conference. the IFSP
is needed for any child with developmental delays who attends the Early Step Program.
✔✔Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten Program - ✔✔the program enacted in 2004, which is
designed to prepare four-year-old children for kindergarten and lay the foundation for
their success is know as
✔✔Performance-based assessment - ✔✔assessment that measures learning
processes
✔✔Norm-based assessments - ✔✔Assessments that give us some idea of what
students need to know to achieve grade level performance are referred as
✔✔Informed consent - ✔✔Parents being noticed in their native language of all
educational activities to be conducted during a nondiscriminatory evaluation of their
child is called
✔✔Curriculum based assessments - ✔✔Assessments that are used to determine how a
student is performing in or mastering the actual curriculum.
