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Q:
Which of the following statements about ADHD and stimulant medication is accurate?
A) Medication results in improved achievement.
B) Most parents have negative attitudes about medication.
C) Most children show a short term positive response to it.
D) Most students show a short term negative response to it.
Q:
All of the following are genetic disorders associated with ADHD except
A) fragile X syndrome
B) fetal alcohol syndrome
C) Turner syndrome
D) Williams syndrome
Q:
Which of the following is an example of ADHD and comorbidity?
A) Andy and his twin brother have ADHD.
B) Brett has ADHD and his father had it as a child.
C) Candy has ADHD and an emotional disability.
D) Diana does not speak English and she has ADHD.
Q:
Which subtype of ADHD are students diagnosed with the most?
A) ADHD combined type
B) ADHD early onset type
C) ADHD primarily inattentive type
D) ADHD primarily hyperactive impulsive type
Q:
Amelia is eight years old. She has a very short attention span. Her teacher reports that she frequently stares out the window and that she loses her place when reading. She often asks for directions to be repeated and appears startled when called on in class. Which subtype of ADHD is Amelia most likely to have?
A) ADHD combined type
B) ADHD early onset type
C) ADHD hyperactive impulsive type
D) ADHD primarily inattentive type
Q:
What is the most likely cause for the increase in Type 2 diabetes in children?
A) an increase in children living in poverty
B) an increase in the availability of fast food
C) an increase in the number of obese children
D) a decrease in the number families with medical insurance
Q:
Which of the following has not been associated with seizures in otherwise healthy people?
A) high fevers
B) excessive exercise
C) excessive alcohol consumption
D) blows to the head
Q:
Which of the following statements about HIV and AIDS is true?
A) People who contract HIV will eventually develop AIDS.
B) Parents must inform school officials that their child has HIV.
C) Students with HIV and AIDS can legally be excluded from school.
D) Students receiving special education services may be more likely to contract HIV.
Q:
Why must children with cystic fibrosis undergo physiotherapy?
A) to strengthen their lungs
B) to aid in the digestion of food
C) to improve pancreatic sufficiency
D) to dislodge mucus and drain loosened secretions
Q:
Which of the following conditions account for the most hospitalizations among children?
A) asthma
B) cancer
C) epilepsy
D) HIV and AIDS
Q:
Grant is a high school student with diabetes. During chemistry class, he becomes irritable for no apparent reason. He appears to be drowsy and complains of being nauseated. What should the teacher do to help Grant?
A) administer a dose of insulin
B) send Grant to the gym to exercise
C) give Grant a candy bar or a sugar cube to eat
D) contact a doctor or nurse for immediate medical help
Q:
Which clause appears in the IDEA definition of orthopedic impairments and other health impairments?
A) chronic condition
B) adversely affects educational performance
C) deficits in communication and social functioning
D) cannot be attributed to other disabling conditions
Q:
Which licensed health professional is involved in the development and maintenance of the motor skills, movement, and posture of students with physical disabilities?
A) occupational therapist
B) personal trainer
C) physical education instructor
D) physical therapist
Q:
Which best describes an aura?
A) a visual hallucination experienced by someone with a head injury
B) phantom sensations in the limbs of a person with a spinal cord injury
C) a warning sensation experienced by someone shortly before a seizure
D) feelings of pain or tingling experienced by someone with a degenerative nerve disorder
Q:
Gina is a student with epilepsy. Her teacher took her to the nurse because she was wandering around the playground shouting at students. Her eyes were open but she did not seem to know what she was doing. Gina was not able to tell the nurse anything about the incident. Which type of seizure did her teacher probably witness?
A) an absence seizure
B) a complex partial seizure
C) a grand mal seizure
D) a simple partial seizure
Q:
Which of the following would have the greatest amount of paralysis?
A) Alex, who has an injury that cuts through the cord at C4
B) Blake, who has an injury C6
C) Carla, who has an injury that partially cuts the cord at L3
D) Donald, who has an injury that damages the cord at Tl1
Q:
According to the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistics Center, most spinal cord injuries are the result of
A) acts of violence
B) falls
C) motor vehicle accidents
D) sports injuries
Q:
Mrs. Little is concerned about Derrick, a student with spina bifida in her fifth grade class. He wears a shunt to prevent hydrocephalus. He used to be friendly and outgoing, but lately he has been withdrawn and irritable. He also seems drowsy in class and has been complaining of headaches. Derrick's behaviors may indicate that
A) he needs to be repositioned more frequently
B) his spinal cord is becoming more damaged
C) he needs to spend more time exercising outdoors
D) his shunt may have become blocked or dislocated
Q:
Which of the following statements about muscular dystrophy is true?
A) Symptoms are evident in infancy.
B) Some forms result from genetic mutations.
C) Current treatments can reverse the effects of this condition.
D) Muscles in the hands and fingers are the first to be affected.
Q:
Which of the following statements about clean intermittent catheterization is most accurate?
A) This procedure must be performed at least once an hour.
B) This procedure must be performed in a sterile environment.
C) This procedure is necessary for most children with spina bifida.
D) This procedure must be performed by trained medical personnel.
Q:
What is the most common type of cerebral palsy?
A) ataxia
B) athetosis
C) spastic
D) tremor
Q:
Aaron has cerebral palsy. He is able to use his arms and hands quite well but he has braces on both legs that support him when he walks. His condition would be described as
A) double hemiplegia
B) diplegia
C) hemiplegia
D) paraplegia
Q:
The most prevalent physical disability in school aged children is
A) cerebral palsy
B) club foot
C) muscular dystrophy
D) spina bifida
Q:
What percentage of children received special education services for other health impairments during the 2009"2010 school year?
A) 1.8%
B) 7%
C) 11.6%
D) 20%
Q:
All of the following are disability categories that students with ADHD may be served under except
A) autism
B) emotional disabilities
C) learning disabilities
D) other health impairments
Q:
Which of the following statements about orthopedic impairments is true?
A) They are usually acquired.
B) They involve the skeletal system.
C) They involve the central nervous system.
D) They affect the ability to use, control or feel certain parts of the body.
Q:
List the six levels of Bloom's taxonomy and give an example of a question or activity at each level.
Q:
Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of two placement alternatives for students who are gifted and talented.
Q:
Explain what differentiation is. Be sure to include its guiding premise, why it's used, what a teacher's role is in a differentiated curriculum, and some examples.
Q:
List and describe the different types of ability grouping.
Q:
TRUE/FALSEStudents who are gifted and talented are harmed the most by No Child Left Behind.
Q:
TRUE/FALSETen percent to twenty-five percent of high school dropouts are students who are gifted and talented.
Q:
TRUE/FALSEStudents who are gifted and talented should not be provided with instruction that targets lower levels of Bloom's taxonomy.
Q:
TRUE/FALSEGenerally, students who are gifted students and who skip grades have few, if any, social or achievement problems.
Q:
TRUE/FALSEAfrican American and Latino males score better than their female counterparts on achievement tests.
Q:
TRUE/FALSEChildren from culturally diverse backgrounds tend to remain in programs for the gifted and talented once they are identified.
Q:
TRUE/FALSEPrograms for students who are gifted and talented have been adequately funded since the Javitz Act was passed.
Q:
TRUE/FALSEThere are approximately 3 million students who are gifted and talented in the United States today.
Q:
TRUE/FALSEIntraindividual differences in gifted children may be impacted by culture.
Q:
TRUE/FALSEAccording to the NAGC a domain can be any area with its own set of sensorimotor skills.
Q:
TRUE/FALSEThere is a universally accepted definition of giftedness.
Q:
TRUE/FALSEStudents who are gifted do not need special education to reach their full potential.
Q:
What curricular program that challenges students to "learn to learn" is advocated by faculty at the College of William and Mary for gifted and talented students? Provide a definition of that program.
Q:
Name any four of the sources of information that can be used to identify a student as gifted and talented.
Q:
Describe a placement/setting where service for students with giftedness and talent is most likely to occur and the role of the helping professional in that setting.
Q:
Why is the term "gifted" losing popularity?
Q:
What are the two difficulties that teachers of the gifted and talented face regarding the acceleration of the math curriculum?
Q:
Which differentiation strategy allows for probing or studying a subject at great depth? Provide three examples of this strategy.
Q:
The differentiation strategy in which the pace at which a student moves through the curriculum is modified is called _____. Explain a common concern in using this strategy.
Q:
List and explain four modifications teachers use in Maker's Active Problem Solver Model.
Q:
List the six levels of Bloom's taxonomy in the correct order, giving both the traditional and revised terminology.
Q:
All of the following are advantages to using the DISCOVER model to identify giftedness in culturally diverse children except
A) the process is equally effective for boys and girls
B) equitable percentages of children from all cultures are identified
C) the children identified closely resemble the cultural characteristics of the dominant culture
D) children identified make gains that are the same as or greater than those children identified using traditional tests
Q:
Mrs. Sawyer is a general education teacher with a class of 26 students. Six of those students have been identified as gifted and talented. Mr. Lucas, a teacher who is certified in teaching gifted and talented students, spends one fourth of his time providing differentiated instruction to these students in the general education classroom. This arrangement is known as
A) cluster ability grouping
B) cluster performance grouping
C) dual differentiation
D) like ability cooperative learning groups
Q:
Which of the following is the most recent type of special school for gifted and talented students?
A) high schools for gifted girls
B) magnet schools in urban areas
C) charter schools for the gifted and talented
D) high schools for the visual and performing arts
Q:
Which best characterizes the position of the National Association for Gifted and Talented Children on ability grouping?
A) It is undemocratic and racist.
B) It is generally the least restrictive environment.
C) It damages the self-esteem of struggling students.
D) It creates an elitist group of students with inflated egos.
Q:
Danielle is not identified as a student who is gifted or talented but has opportunities to participate in some challenging activities for which she shows serious interest. Which model is being used?
A) ability grouping
B) active problem solving
C) problem-based learning
D) schoolwide enrichment
Q:
Which of the following activities would be at the highest level of Bloom's taxonomy?
A) designing a new chair for Baby Bear
B) acting out what happened when the bears found Goldilocks
C) discussing what happened to Goldilocks at the Bears' house
D) evaluating Goldilocks's decision to enter a house without permission
Q:
Teachers most often ask questions at which level of Bloom's taxonomy?
A) remember and create
B) understand and create
C) remember and apply
D) remember and understand
Q:
Mrs. Stewart provides a basic lesson on figurative language. All students are expected to identify examples of similes and metaphors. Some students are expected to generate examples of similes and metaphors and others are expected to identify and generate more complex examples of figurative language. This approach to differentiation is known as
A) advanced placement
B) curriculum compacting
C) response to intervention
D) tiered lessons
Q:
Which best exemplifies acceleration?
A) Rose, a six-year-old, goes to a third grade math class because she has mastered first and second grade math.
B) Carter is given more difficult reading material than her classmates in fourth grade because she has mastered reading.
C) Coralee, who has mastered the third grade science curriculum, teaches it to others in her class who have not.
D) Desmond studies subject areas not offered at his school, such as comparative religion and quantum physics.
Q:
Enriching the content of instruction includes all but which of the following?
A) accelerating content
B) independent study
C) mentorships
D) investigating topics in greater detail
Q:
According to the author of the text, which subjects are ideally suited to acceleration?A) reading and mathB) math and scienceC) reading and social studiesD) math and foreign language
Q:
Which step in curriculum compacting is usually the most difficult for teachers?
A) assessing the target content areas
B) substituting more appropriate content
C) determining the content to be eliminated
D) determining which students qualify for compacting
Q:
Which is the best example of enrichment?
A) Jewel is 14 years old, but is allowed to enroll in college courses.
B) With a teacher's guidance, Dale researches, designs, and builds a robot.
C) Tosha is given extra reading and math problems because she always finishes early.
D) Since Lynn already knows the algebra content covered in the first 8 weeks in class, she is allowed to begin with content usually introduced later.
Q:
Maker characterizes a person who is gifted as
A) highly talented
B) a problem solver
C) extremely creative
D) an individual with an IQ score two standard deviations above the mean
Q:
Which is not a recommended curriculum and instruction feature for gifted and talented students?
A) ensure academic rigor
B) match ability and interests
C) focus only on math and the sciences
D) be thematic or interdisciplinary in nature
Q:
Appropriate curricular approaches for educating students who are gifted and talented include all of the following except
A) acceleration
B) problem based learning
C) differentiation
D) enrichment
Q:
Twice exceptional means
A) being gifted academically and also talented
B) being gifted and talented and having a disability
C) being in the top 1% on the bell curve of IQ scores
D) being gifted and talented but unidentified because of gender
Q:
For students who are twice exceptional, which of the following is NOT recommended for supporting their social and emotional needs?
A) encourage students to succeed
B) teach strategies for coping with frustrations
C) provide support in establishing and maintaining social relationships
D) use conventional or nontraditional measurement tools as well as nonverbal measurement
Q:
Which of the following is not true regarding the problems that boys, who are gifted and talented, encounter?
A) Boys outscore girls on standard achievement tests.
B) Creative behavior in boys is generally encouraged.
C) A boy code operates against the expression of emotions by boys.
D) There is negative stereotyping of boys who are talented in the arts.
Q:
Which of the following is an external variable that impedes the identification and education of girls who are gifted and talented?
A) lack of female geniuses
B) parental pressure to excel
C) poor academic choices at the secondary level
D) general disinterest in math and science curriculum
Q:
Which is a goal agreed upon by professionals, in gifted and talented education, for the identification of students who are culturally diverse and who live in poverty?
A) use mainly informal testing techniques
B) use subjective rather than objective data
C) defer the identification process until students have learned English
D) use multiple sources to gather data, including unconventional measures
Q:
What is primarily to blame for the underrepresentation of students from culturally diverse groups in programs for the gifted and talented?
A) biases inherent in the identification process
B) the increasing numbers of culturally diverse students in the school population
C) reduced numbers of minority students entering fields requiring math and science skills
D) students in culturally diverse groups lack the qualities of students who are gifted and talented
Q:
Which is not a type of qualitative assessment tool used for identification of students who are gifted and talented?
A) IQ test
B) interview
C) observation
D) portfolio
Q:
In which of the following groups would students be least likely to be identified as gifted and talented?
A) girls
B) Hispanics
C) African Americans
D) Native Americans
Q:
Identification and placement of gifted and talented children from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural groups
A) is a persistent problem in education
B) is addressed in the federal legislation for the gifted
C) is increasing, as disproportionate numbers of children from these groups are served
D) was an issue resolved in the last decade, as these groups are served in proportion similar to that of other populations
Q:
Which is not descriptive of Maker's (2005) DISCOVER assessment procedure?
A) It "levels the playing field" for students from culturally diverse grounds.
B) It involves decreasingly less structured problem-solving tasks.
C) It includes tasks which require both convergent and divergent thinking.
D) It has been found to be inequitable when used with girls or diverse cultural groups.
Q:
An approach toward identification of gifted and talented children that is gaining popularity among educators is best described as
A) a nomination system
B) group analysis
C) multidimensional screening
D) standardized test administration
Q:
According to Torrance's research on creativity, most creative people are
A) individuals who walk and talk at an early age
B) individuals who spend more time reading than watching television
C) individuals from affluent backgrounds who are exposed to the fine arts at an early age
D) individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds who use their imaginations to think outside the box
Q:
Using intelligence test scores and including students regarded as highly talented, the prevalence for giftedness is estimated as high as
A) l%
B) 3"5%
C) 25%
D) 10"15%