Special Education Methods of Instruction
and Intervention - D232 ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Which procedure will provide enough data to initiate any instructional changes, if needed,
when calculating a student's progress? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Calculating rate of
progress after a minimum of 8 weeks
Teachers at a school want to be effective at identifying when instructional changes are needed
for a student with a suspected educational disability. What needs to be ensured when
conducting progress monitoring? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The measurement is related
to the curriculum being taught
Which distinct components should Tier 2 progress monitoring include in comparison to Tier
1 monitoring efforts? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Data is collected more frequently and
over a longer period
A teacher needs to determine whether students are benefitting and responding well to Tier 1
instruction. Which teacher-related component needs to be evaluated prior to making
instructional changes? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Whether instruction is high quality and
scientifically-based
What is the scope and intent of Tier 3 instruction? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅To provide
intense, individualized instruction over a longer period
Which of the following is a description of how effective the intervention should be for a
student in achieving a learning goal? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Strength
Mrs. Phan has a Tier 2 intervention reading group with four students. After a reading
achievement test, one of the students is still not making gains so Mrs. Phan intensified the
intervention with additional time spent on reading skills for this student. Which best describes
the intervention that Mrs. Phan used? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Data-based intervention
and individualization
, What is the taxonomy of intervention intensity? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A method for
choosing an intensive intervention that is molded to fit a student's individualized need.
A student consistently failed to meet learning goals. After assessment, it was determined that
the student did not have a learning disability. Which strategy should the teacher use to help
the student meet learning goals? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Instructional match and
prioritization for the student's needs.
Mrs. Thomas worked with a student that has reading comprehension intervention supports.
This student was unsuccessful in small group intervention, fell further behind, and was very
discouraged with school, so Mrs. Thomas planned to further individualize instruction for this
student with one-on-one supports and other more intensive interventions. Which intervention
label supports Mrs. Thomas's plan? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Tier 3
In a general education classroom that has two co-teachers, a student with a mild learning
disability struggles with completing timed keyboarding exercises successfully.Which
approach would allow the teachers to collect data to support the student? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅One teaches, one observes
Which co-teaching model supports small teacher-to-student ratio throughout a lesson? -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Station teaching
In which scenario would it be appropriate to provide instructional support to students with
mild learning disabilities in a co-teaching classroom using parallel teaching? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅To support readers with different levels of fluency and comprehension
All the students in a class are attempting to learn a new concept that is inadvertently a higher-
order cognitive task in which the teachers did not anticipate. It is causing difficulty in
completing worksheets accurately. Which method should a co-teaching classroom use to
remedy the situation? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Identify the learning issues and
implement an alternative teaching set up
Which co-teaching method could general and special education teachers employ with the
whole class to introduce and model how metacognition works while reading? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Team teaching: One models reading behavior aloud, while the other
provides instruction of concepts on board.
and Intervention - D232 ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Which procedure will provide enough data to initiate any instructional changes, if needed,
when calculating a student's progress? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Calculating rate of
progress after a minimum of 8 weeks
Teachers at a school want to be effective at identifying when instructional changes are needed
for a student with a suspected educational disability. What needs to be ensured when
conducting progress monitoring? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The measurement is related
to the curriculum being taught
Which distinct components should Tier 2 progress monitoring include in comparison to Tier
1 monitoring efforts? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Data is collected more frequently and
over a longer period
A teacher needs to determine whether students are benefitting and responding well to Tier 1
instruction. Which teacher-related component needs to be evaluated prior to making
instructional changes? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Whether instruction is high quality and
scientifically-based
What is the scope and intent of Tier 3 instruction? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅To provide
intense, individualized instruction over a longer period
Which of the following is a description of how effective the intervention should be for a
student in achieving a learning goal? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Strength
Mrs. Phan has a Tier 2 intervention reading group with four students. After a reading
achievement test, one of the students is still not making gains so Mrs. Phan intensified the
intervention with additional time spent on reading skills for this student. Which best describes
the intervention that Mrs. Phan used? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Data-based intervention
and individualization
, What is the taxonomy of intervention intensity? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A method for
choosing an intensive intervention that is molded to fit a student's individualized need.
A student consistently failed to meet learning goals. After assessment, it was determined that
the student did not have a learning disability. Which strategy should the teacher use to help
the student meet learning goals? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Instructional match and
prioritization for the student's needs.
Mrs. Thomas worked with a student that has reading comprehension intervention supports.
This student was unsuccessful in small group intervention, fell further behind, and was very
discouraged with school, so Mrs. Thomas planned to further individualize instruction for this
student with one-on-one supports and other more intensive interventions. Which intervention
label supports Mrs. Thomas's plan? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Tier 3
In a general education classroom that has two co-teachers, a student with a mild learning
disability struggles with completing timed keyboarding exercises successfully.Which
approach would allow the teachers to collect data to support the student? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅One teaches, one observes
Which co-teaching model supports small teacher-to-student ratio throughout a lesson? -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Station teaching
In which scenario would it be appropriate to provide instructional support to students with
mild learning disabilities in a co-teaching classroom using parallel teaching? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅To support readers with different levels of fluency and comprehension
All the students in a class are attempting to learn a new concept that is inadvertently a higher-
order cognitive task in which the teachers did not anticipate. It is causing difficulty in
completing worksheets accurately. Which method should a co-teaching classroom use to
remedy the situation? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Identify the learning issues and
implement an alternative teaching set up
Which co-teaching method could general and special education teachers employ with the
whole class to introduce and model how metacognition works while reading? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Team teaching: One models reading behavior aloud, while the other
provides instruction of concepts on board.
