1.
A student has shown much improvement in the emotionally handicapped program. He is achieving 90% of his daily points. He returns his behavior report signed by his mother daily, and he has been successful in his general education mathematics class. His ESE teacher has decided to take him off the point system, move him to a weekly report for his mother, and increase his mainstreaming by one class. This plan is designed to
A.
Increase Sam's self esteem
B.
Increase Sam's self confidence
C.
Increase Sam’s self directed activities
D.
Increase Sam's self knowledge by allowing him to use curiosity
2.
The simplest and most efficient assessment method to initially determine social skills functioning is to
A.
See a specialist so they can make an observation
B.
Have someone else evaluate you
C.
Complete a published self evaluation
D.
Complete a published check list
3.
A 7-year old 2nd grader has difficulty remaining on task for more than 5 or 10 minute at a time. The teacher decides to reward students who remain on task for at least 10 minutes. This is an example of
A.
Fixed interval reinforcement
B.
C.
D.
4.
Teacher who teaches children with specific learning disabilities has a student in her class who has frequent outbursts. The teacher wants to determine how long the outburst last, so she decides to collect data. The most appropriate method for the teacher to use
5.
A 4th grade student has been getting along well with his classmates. Whenever an activity involved group work, all students want to have him in their group and he appeared to have enjoyed working with them. Recently, the teacher has observed him working alone on activites. When she encouraged the others to invite him to their group, they were all hesitant. Even the friendliest student in the classroom has requested not to be in a group with him. The intervention the teacher should take is
A.
Ask questions on why no one wants to interact with the student
B.
Lecture the class about being kind to others.
C.
Ask questions on what the student did
D.
Lecture the class that they have to group up with the student
6.
A student continually refuses to bring in her homework. The teacher has contacted her parents, but they have shown little interest. The teacher should
A.
Ignore the fact and allow the student to fail
B.
Involve the school counselor
C.
Involve the school principle
D.
Develop a contingency contract
7.
An effective way to handle attendance problems in a secondary resource classroom is to
A.
Have a periodic attendance reward
B.
Praise students that are not on the perfect attendance list
C.
Give F's to students who do not come to class
D.
Discipline students who did not come to school the next time they come to class
8.
A teacher has arranged her primary ESE class into learning centers for the past 3-years. The classroom rule at the beginning of each year has been that when students finish the assigned tasks, they can select an activity from specified centers and work on it without disturbing the other students. This has worked well for the class for some time. But as time progresses. Some students select the same activities thus preventing others from using them. To prevent this deterioration from occurring, the teacher should
A.
Add a rule that specifies that each student much switch centers weekly
B.
Add a rule that specifies how may students can work in any one situation or another.
C.
Add a rule that specifies how many time a student can select the same center
D.
Continue to allow the student to select the same center because he or she is finishing first
9.
A student’s behavior on the bus has been a serious problem. He runs up a down the isles, talks loudly, and throws paper at others. The general atmosphere on the bus is one of discord. The best anecdotal observation report is
A.
Bob is out of line and should be disciplined
B.
C.
D.
10.
A teacher of students with behavior problems wants to reduce the number of interaction that occurs in her classroom. She has collected baseline data by recording counts of interaction and has interpreted the data. What is the next step
A.
B.
Developing an action plan
C.
D.
Turn in the data to school counselor
11.
A component of a written behavioral objective is
12.
An 18 year old with moderate disability, has recently moved into a group home. The residential counselor at the group home that school personnel develop and implement programs to teach the student appropriate social skills behavior that would relate to dating. The first step is
A.
Use one student as an example to test out if he program works before you lecture other students
B.
Creating the program as you go through out the lecture
C.
Writing behavioral intervention program to teach dating behavior
D.
Teaching the behavioral intervention program
13.
The initial step in designing a positive behavior support management system for a student who demonstrates inappropriate social behavior is
A.
Defining the targeted behavior
B.
C.
D.
Defining the students average point
14.
There is a general set of procedures that is followed in the successful implementation of behavior modification programs. The first step involves
A.
Identifying a system of discipline
B.
Identifying the average behavior
C.
D.
Identifying the target behavior
15.
A student refuses to sit appropriately in his chair. He usually leans back and props his feet on the desks. The teacher praises a nearby student for sitting appropriately. The teacher is using
16.
An ESE teacher has a quick wit to and the ability to make humorous remarks. This technique often comes in handy when the aggressive fifth grade boys come into his class from the playground brake showing one another name-calling. He is using
17.
If there is a decrease in the occurrence of a given behavior when a specific event follows, the event is referred to as
18.
In her primary classroom, Ms. Hock has set up a behavior intervention system using tokens. These tokens can be exchanged for free time activities. The tokens are
A.
Praise through physical items
B.
C.
D.
19.
In language, the study of word meaning is called
20.
A socio-cultural influence on language and speech development is
21.
Students in class are loud and disruptive when walking from the classroom to the lunchroom. The teacher tells the students that if they walk in a straight, quiet line for five consecutive days, they will have an ice-cream party. All of her students agree to the deal. This behavior management technique is
A.
B.
C.
D.
Group behavioral management technique
22.
The term used to describe the smoothness with which speech units flow together is
23.
There is a distinction made between speech disorder and a language disorder. What is it
A.
Spelling/Grammar comprehension
B.
C.
Stuttering is a speech disorder
D.
24.
A student is experiencing difficulties constructing meaningful sentences in the reading and writing process. Often when she speaking, she leaves out words. The students needs intensive instructional work in which cueing system
25.
The basic foundation of language group is
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