Describe problems with determining the intellectual capabilities of students with multiple disabilities, and state general conclusions about their intellectual functioning
What will be an ideal response?
It is not easy to determine the intellectual capabilities of many students with multiple or severe disabilities. Traditional methods of measuring intelligence are inappropriate for the following reasons: these students are not usually included in the normative samples of the tests; the information from the tests has limited value for designing educational programs; these students have likely not been exposed to much of the academic content in the tests; and most intelligence tests rely primarily on verbal abilities even though many students have language and communication impairments. Given these problems with testing, it can be said in general that most students with multiple disabilities have significant impairments in intellectual functioning, with IQ scores significantly below average. However, some students with higher IQs have multiple disabilities associated with other impairments. They vary widely in the academic abilities, with many developing functional academic skills.
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A. There are often substantial mismatches between the content covered on some of these tests and local curricular emphases. B. Substantial gaps between minority and majority students' performance on most accountability tests will rarely be found. C. There is a technical tendency to remove from such tests items covering important, teacher-stressed knowledge and skills. D. It is difficult to tell from such tests how much of a student's test performance is due to what was taught in school rather than to students' socioeconomic status or inherited academic aptitudes.
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What will be an ideal response?
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a. "baby boomers." b. "techies." c. "Generation Y." d. "Generation X."