Which best describes the primary goal of the response-to-intervention approach to identifying specific learning disabilities?
a. Assure that students with specific learning disabilities, who also have intellectual disabilities, receive the range of services they need
b. Assure that children whose learning disabilities are a result of socioeconomic disadvantage are more likely to be identified as eligible for services
c. Reduce the number of students who need special education for learning disabilities by identifying and correcting academic problems in the early grades
d. Increase the number of students found eligible for learning disabilities programs
c. Reduce the number of students who need special education for learning disabilities by identifying and correcting academic problems in the early grades
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Three of the following statements are accurate with regard to how developmental factors may affect children's and adolescents' performance on standardized tests. Which statement is not accurate?
A) It is more difficult to standardize testing conditions for young children than for students in the middle and high school grades. B) Young children's erratic behavior (due to short attention span, poor motivation, etc.) can adversely affect a test's validity. C) Adolescents are more likely to have debilitating test anxiety than young children are. D) Adolescents are more likely to take a standardized test seriously than fourth graders are.
Which of the following statements illustrates evidence for autism having ahereditary component?
A) "Refrigerator mothers" have been shown to have had mothers who were also "cold" and uninvolved. B) Identical twins are much more likely to both have autism than are fraternal twins. C) When one family member has autism, the chances are 9.3 times higher that a first cousin has autism than in the population as a whole. D) Family members of those with autism are less likely to have a preference for routines than people in general.
In a multilevel model in which an outcome was measured in children from different classrooms, a large intraclass correlation would imply that:
A. The outcome measure varied a lot across children within a classroom. B. Children within a particular class behaved very differently. C. Children in different classes behaved very differently. D. The outcome variable varied very little across children from different classrooms.
What is “dwell time” in the life of a military family?
A. the post-deployment time when the military family member is home B. the mourning period after the loss of a military family member in active duty C. the length of time a child takes to progress through the stages of the grieving process after the loss of a military family member D. the amount of time a student spends in one school before moving to a new school