FTCE Exceptional Student Education K-12
questions and answers 2025\2026 A+ Grade
Portfolio Assessment
- correct answer 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
- correct answer a performance-based alternative assessment of student mastery of Access Point
Disproportionality
- correct answer students from certain racial/ethnic, low socioeconomic status, non-majority linguistic
backgrounds and English language learners are overrepresented in special education programs
Test Bias
- correct answer when certain groups consistently score differently from other groups (e.g., females
tend to score lower than males)
Curriculum-based measurement (CBM)
- correct answer provides information about student mastery of the general education curriculum
Summative Assessment
- correct answer 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
- correct answer 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)
- correct answer 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
- correct answer 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
- correct answer 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
- correct answer Reflexes (sensorimotor stage) What age?
1-4 months
- correct answer infants find accidental actions like thumb-sucking pleasurable and then intentionally
repeat them (Primary Circular Reactions of sensorimotor stage) What age?
4-8 months
- correct answer Secondary Circular Reactions (Sensorimotor stage): infants intentionally repeat actions
to evoke environmental effects. What age?
8-12 months
- correct answer Coordination of Reactions (sensorimotor stage): children repeat actions intentionally,
comprehend cause and effect and combine schemas (concepts). What age?
12-18 months
- correct answer Tertiary Circular Reactions (sensorimotor stage): children experiment with trial-and-
error. What age?
,18-24 months
- correct answer 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):
- correct answer 18-24 months
Tertiary Circular Reactions (sensorimotor stage)
- correct answer 12-18 months
Coordination of Reactions (sensorimotor stage):
- correct answer 8-12 months
Secondary Circular Reactions (sensorimotor stage)
- correct answer 4-8 months
Primary Circular Reactions (sensorimotor stage)
- correct answer 1-4 months
Reflexes (sensorimotor stage)
- correct answer 0-1 month
Ecological assessment
- correct answer 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
- correct answer provides descriptions of student performance on real-life tasks carried out in real world
settings.
Accountability
- correct answer 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
- correct answer 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)
- correct answer 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
- correct answer 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
- correct answer assessment that measures learning processes
Norm-based assessments
- correct answer Assessments that give us some idea of what students need to know to achieve grade
level performance are referred as
Informed consent
- correct answer 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
- correct answer Assessments that are used to determine how a student is performing in or mastering
the actual curriculum.
Porfolio Assessment
- correct answer a collection of work systematically collected by a teacher to determine learning gains
and current performance level.
questions and answers 2025\2026 A+ Grade
Portfolio Assessment
- correct answer 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
- correct answer a performance-based alternative assessment of student mastery of Access Point
Disproportionality
- correct answer students from certain racial/ethnic, low socioeconomic status, non-majority linguistic
backgrounds and English language learners are overrepresented in special education programs
Test Bias
- correct answer when certain groups consistently score differently from other groups (e.g., females
tend to score lower than males)
Curriculum-based measurement (CBM)
- correct answer provides information about student mastery of the general education curriculum
Summative Assessment
- correct answer 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
- correct answer 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)
- correct answer 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
- correct answer 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
- correct answer 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
- correct answer Reflexes (sensorimotor stage) What age?
1-4 months
- correct answer infants find accidental actions like thumb-sucking pleasurable and then intentionally
repeat them (Primary Circular Reactions of sensorimotor stage) What age?
4-8 months
- correct answer Secondary Circular Reactions (Sensorimotor stage): infants intentionally repeat actions
to evoke environmental effects. What age?
8-12 months
- correct answer Coordination of Reactions (sensorimotor stage): children repeat actions intentionally,
comprehend cause and effect and combine schemas (concepts). What age?
12-18 months
- correct answer Tertiary Circular Reactions (sensorimotor stage): children experiment with trial-and-
error. What age?
,18-24 months
- correct answer 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):
- correct answer 18-24 months
Tertiary Circular Reactions (sensorimotor stage)
- correct answer 12-18 months
Coordination of Reactions (sensorimotor stage):
- correct answer 8-12 months
Secondary Circular Reactions (sensorimotor stage)
- correct answer 4-8 months
Primary Circular Reactions (sensorimotor stage)
- correct answer 1-4 months
Reflexes (sensorimotor stage)
- correct answer 0-1 month
Ecological assessment
- correct answer 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
- correct answer provides descriptions of student performance on real-life tasks carried out in real world
settings.
Accountability
- correct answer 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
- correct answer 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)
- correct answer 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
- correct answer 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
- correct answer assessment that measures learning processes
Norm-based assessments
- correct answer Assessments that give us some idea of what students need to know to achieve grade
level performance are referred as
Informed consent
- correct answer 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
- correct answer Assessments that are used to determine how a student is performing in or mastering
the actual curriculum.
Porfolio Assessment
- correct answer a collection of work systematically collected by a teacher to determine learning gains
and current performance level.
