IL238 School Social Work Exam
questions well answered passed
Ecosystems Perspective - correct answer ✔✔All systems (students, classroom, schools) must be
understood within their social context and among the multifaceted transactions that take place
between systems.
Ecological Theory - correct answer ✔✔a perspective providing the framework for understanding
the nature of the transactions between the person and different institutions and systems.
Ex. helping the social worker to identify and consider all systems contributing to the student's
situation or difficulty.
The resolution may be more effective when intervention take place within more than one
system.
ecological environments - correct answer ✔✔School system, Peer groups, ethnic/racial group,
family system/extended members, socioeconomic group, community/neighborhood
Family Systems Theory - correct answer ✔✔A theory that views the family as a system of
interacting parts whose interactions exhibit consistent patterns and unstated rules. (Murray
Bowen) Within the boundaries of the system, patterns develop as certain family member's
behavior is caused by and causes other family member's behaviors in predictable ways.
Maintaining the same pattern of behaviors within a system may lead to balance in the family
system, but also to dysfunction.
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) - correct answer ✔✔Federal law that
pertains specifically to education records. Under FERPA, parents have the right to consent to
disclosure of their children's information until the child reaches the age of 18. At 18 the rights
transfer to the student.
FERPA applies to the education records of the students, including information that is in written
or recorded form. Many records created by the SSW are subject to the provisions of FERPA.
, A school social worker generates social developmental studies, conducts and records functional
behavioral analyses, provides and documents social work minutes in a individualized education
plan, and engages in recording notes of individual and group counseling sessions.
These are all protected under what federal law? - correct answer ✔✔Family Education Rights
and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA)
learning disability - correct answer ✔✔
adaptive behavior - correct answer ✔✔typical performance of individuals without disabilities in
meeting the expectations of their various environments.
Adaptive Skills - correct answer ✔✔include conceptual, social, and practical competencies for
functioning in typical community settings
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) - correct answer ✔✔A special education law
that requires schools to educate students with disabilities in least restrictive environments to
the greatest extent of their abilities using plans tailored to the individual needs of the students.
4 Goals of Special Education - correct answer ✔✔equal opportunity, full participation,
independent living, economic self-sufficiency
Specific Learning Disability - correct answer ✔✔a disorder in one or more of the basic
psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that
may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do
mathematical calculations
reading disability (dyslexia) and the 4 issues - correct answer ✔✔an inability or difficulty
reading that is of neurological origin.
Phonemic Analysis, word identification, reading fluency, and reading comprehension.
questions well answered passed
Ecosystems Perspective - correct answer ✔✔All systems (students, classroom, schools) must be
understood within their social context and among the multifaceted transactions that take place
between systems.
Ecological Theory - correct answer ✔✔a perspective providing the framework for understanding
the nature of the transactions between the person and different institutions and systems.
Ex. helping the social worker to identify and consider all systems contributing to the student's
situation or difficulty.
The resolution may be more effective when intervention take place within more than one
system.
ecological environments - correct answer ✔✔School system, Peer groups, ethnic/racial group,
family system/extended members, socioeconomic group, community/neighborhood
Family Systems Theory - correct answer ✔✔A theory that views the family as a system of
interacting parts whose interactions exhibit consistent patterns and unstated rules. (Murray
Bowen) Within the boundaries of the system, patterns develop as certain family member's
behavior is caused by and causes other family member's behaviors in predictable ways.
Maintaining the same pattern of behaviors within a system may lead to balance in the family
system, but also to dysfunction.
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) - correct answer ✔✔Federal law that
pertains specifically to education records. Under FERPA, parents have the right to consent to
disclosure of their children's information until the child reaches the age of 18. At 18 the rights
transfer to the student.
FERPA applies to the education records of the students, including information that is in written
or recorded form. Many records created by the SSW are subject to the provisions of FERPA.
, A school social worker generates social developmental studies, conducts and records functional
behavioral analyses, provides and documents social work minutes in a individualized education
plan, and engages in recording notes of individual and group counseling sessions.
These are all protected under what federal law? - correct answer ✔✔Family Education Rights
and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA)
learning disability - correct answer ✔✔
adaptive behavior - correct answer ✔✔typical performance of individuals without disabilities in
meeting the expectations of their various environments.
Adaptive Skills - correct answer ✔✔include conceptual, social, and practical competencies for
functioning in typical community settings
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) - correct answer ✔✔A special education law
that requires schools to educate students with disabilities in least restrictive environments to
the greatest extent of their abilities using plans tailored to the individual needs of the students.
4 Goals of Special Education - correct answer ✔✔equal opportunity, full participation,
independent living, economic self-sufficiency
Specific Learning Disability - correct answer ✔✔a disorder in one or more of the basic
psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that
may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do
mathematical calculations
reading disability (dyslexia) and the 4 issues - correct answer ✔✔an inability or difficulty
reading that is of neurological origin.
Phonemic Analysis, word identification, reading fluency, and reading comprehension.
