Chapter 1 Test Item File

Chapter 1 Test Item File Assessment in Special

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iii Copyright © 2023, 2017, 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction to Assessment ...................................................................................... 1 Learning Outcome Quizzes ...................................................................................... 1 Application Exercises ..............................................................................................11 Test Items ...............................................................................................................14 Test Answer Key .....................................................................................................20 2 / 4

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Chapter 1: Introduction to Assessment

Chapter 1 Learning Outcome Quizzes

Learning Outcome 1.1: Define and understand the purpose of assessment.

[Q 1] Which of the following terms would best describe the process in which a special education teacher conducts reading inventories with their students and uses those data to inform future instruction?

• Grading
• Teaching
• Assessment [correct]
• Professional development

[Feedback for Answer Choice 1] While this teacher may in fact use the reading inventory process as some type of formal grade, this term does not accurately describe the process being conducted.[Feedback for Answer Choice 2] Teaching is a complex process and conducting a reading inventory could be a part of the teaching process, however this term is much too broad to constitute the correct answer.[Feedback for Correct Answer 3] Assessment in special education is a process that involves collecting information about a student for the purpose of making decisions. In this question, the teacher is collecting data (reading inventories) and using the data to make decisions about future instruction. This is the assessment process.[Feedback for Answer Choice 4] Professional development is a term that often refers to a teacher engaging in some type of training or formal education process to better their own practice. In this question, the teacher is using data to support students and improve instruction, not to better their own practice.[Q 2] Qualeya is a special education teacher who is busy looking for patterns in the previous mathematics performance of a student she is working hard to support. In which of the following stages of the assessment process is Qualeya presently engaged?

• Collection
• Analysis [correct]
• Evaluation
• Recommendation

[Feedback for Answer Choice 1] In the collection process, data is being gathered from many sources. It is the ascertainment of the data that qualifies as the collection process. This is not the process in which Qualeya is currently engaged. 3 / 4

2 Copyright © 2023, 2017, 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved.[Feedback for Correct Answer 2] The analysis stage involves understanding patterns in a child’s educational, social, developmental, environmental, medical, and emotional history. Since Qualeya is engaged in reviewing previously collected data in order to determine patterns, it is clear she is engaged in analysis.[Feedback for Answer Choice 3] In the evaluation stage, a child’s strengths and limitations in certain areas are determined.Qualeya does not yet have enough information to make these types of determinations.[Feedback for Answer Choice 4] In the recommendation stage, professionals make suggestions regarding educational placements. This would be premature for Qualeya given her current place in the assessment process.[Q 3] Gerald’s parents have just been called in for a meeting with the school psychologist who would like to discuss the results of Gerald’s psychological evaluation. The school psychologist intends to inform them that Gerald has a specific learning disability. Which stage of the assessment process is described in this scenario?

• Determination [correct]
• Recommendation
• Analysis
• Evaluation

[Feedback for Correct Answer 1] In the determination stage, the presence of a suspected disability is suggested based on the knowledge of the criteria that constitute each category. The school psychologist, in this scenario, is engaged in making a professional determination regarding the presence of a specific learning disability.[Feedback for Answer Choice 2] The school psychologist is not seeking to give guidance or make suggestions at this time, so this is not the recommendation stage of the assessment process.[Feedback for Answer Choice 3] While the school psychologist certainly engaged in the analysis of data to determine patterns, the psychologist has enough data to move beyond the analysis stage in the assessment process.[Feedback for Answer Choice 4] The evaluation stage includes the determination of a child’s strengths and limitations in specific areas, including academic, intellectual, psychological, emotional, perceptual, language, cognitive, and medical development. Since the psychologist is ready to discuss results with Gerald’s parents, they are beyond the evaluation stage.[Q 4] Which of the following best represents a decision area influenced by assessment in special education?

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