Which of the following type of curriculum is identical to that used for students without disabilities but with fewer, and less complex, content area skills?
a. parallel curriculum
b. functional curriculum
c. community-based curriculum
d. life management curriculum
e. specialized curriculum
[Ques. 2] Which of the following is a guideline for developing a relevant multifaceted curriculum?
a. offer a common core of courses
b. include a diversity of educational experiences and activities
c. organize the presentation of the instructional program
d. both a and c
e. all of the above
[Ques. 3] Which of the following definitions describes the instructional approach of remediation?
a. providing students with special instruction with the goal of eventually catching them up in the curriculum
b. providing students with mnemonic devices to help them recall relevant information
c. providing students with semantic webbing techniques for making connections between relevant facts and information to be remembered
d. providing students with techniques that allow them to compensate for their deficiencies
[Ques. 4] Which of the following terms refers to a structured set of learning outcomes or objectives?
a. intervention
b. curriculum
c. instruction
d. conditions
[Ques. 5] Which of the following activities during a school day do students spend the least amount of time in?
a. time spent in instruction
b. engaged time
c. academic responding
d. transitional activities
[Ques. 6] Which of the following aspects of management most accurately describes the focus of positive teaching?
a. behavior
b. schedule of reinforcement
c. consequences
d. contingency
e. antecedents
[Ques. 7] Which of the following is a disadvantage of the alternating treatments design?
a. the rapid back and forth switching on interventions represents an artificial arrangement
b. multiple treatment interference is likely to occur when two or more treatments are alternated rapidly
c. the design is limited in the number of possible interventions that can be evaluated at one time
d. both b and c
e. all of the above
[Ques. 8] Which of the following is an advantage of the alternating treatments design?
a. one behavior can be targeted at a time for intervention
b. it is possible to rule out alternative explanations for behavior change
c. it is useful when multiple behavior changes are desired
d. it minimizes sequence effects
[Ques. 9] How does the alternating treatments design differ from the changing conditions design?
a. the alternating treatments design is used to determine the effectiveness of more than one intervention while the changing conditions design is used to increase the standard for acceptable performance
b. unlike the changing conditions design where interventions are introduced consecutively, one intervention is rapidly substituted for another in the alternating treatments design
c. the alternating treatments design is a variation of the multiple baseline design whereas the changing conditions design is a variation of the reversal design
d. unlike the changing conditions design which is used to assess the effect of behaviors over several settings, the alternating treatments design is used to assess the effect of several observers
[Ques. 10] Which of the following statements is true regarding the changing conditions design?
a. it is used for behaviors that lend themselves to a stepwise modification
b. it allows a teacher to determine which may be the most effective of several interventions
c. it minimizes the impact of carryover effects
d. both a and c
e. all of the above
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