A student knows English, Spanish, and Japanese. He is able to speak, read, and write in Spanish. He speaks conversational English and Japanese occasionally with classmates at school and at a nearby Japanese restaurant. Test examiners should decide to test this student in
A. Japanese.
B. English.
C. Spanish.
D. any of the above.
C
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Linguistically diverse children will benefit in programs where teachers are responsive to their home language and offer __________ opportunities
Fill in the blank with correct word.
Children raised in bilingual households retain the ability to discriminate sound differences in L1 and L2, while monolingual children only retain this ability for L1
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Mr. Royal has a student with a disability who needs a reader for a test he is taking. It might be appropriate for Mr. Royal to use a reader for which of these subjects?
a. Math b. Reading c. Comprehension d. None of the above
Which of the following scenarios best exemplifies a multiple-baseline design?
a. Bryce is an occupational therapist working with Sandy, a brain-injured patient. Bryce has decided to test the effects of a graphing strategy with Sandy. He starts the graphing technique, while collecting data in the form of minutes of strength training per day. He discontinues the graphing technique still collecting minutes of strength training per day. Bryce then reintroduces the graphing technique. b. Laura has developed a new treatment to increase spatial ability. She randomly assigns students to either her intervention or a control condition. In the treatment condition students engage in working puzzles for twenty minutes a day for 10 days. Unfortunately, students don't like her intervention and refuse to do puzzles for all of the days. c. Mr. Matthews, the school psychologist, is called by the third-grade teacher because one of the students, Seamus, has been referred for a new behavioral intervention plan, in which the teacher uses nonverbal signals as a positive consequence when Seamus engages in appropriate behavior. Mr. Matthews observes Seamus's behavior in the regular classroom and in Art and Music class. He records off-task behavior, calling out, and touching others for eight days. d. Ewa is an athletic trainer at the university. She conducts research on violence in sport. She has designed a study to examine the effects of a new sportsmanship class. She randomly assigns teams by sport to be in either her new class or not. That is, some teams are in the class and others are not. She then compares incidents of violence between groups.