Deck 8: Assessment of Educational Ability: Survey Battery, Diagnostic, Readiness, and Cognitive Ability Tests

Question 1

Which of the following are true as a result of PL94-142 and IDEA?

A) All students with a learning disability must be given accommodations for their disability within the least restrictive environment.
B) Individual Education Plans must address accommodations for students with identified learning disabilities.
C) Diagnostic testing has become increasingly important in identifying children with learning disabilities.
D) Cognitive abilities tests are used to help examine differences between how a student has done in school and what they are capable of doing. Such differences could be due to a learning disability.
E) All of these are true.

Answer 1

All of these are true.

Question 2

Which of the following is most accurate about the NAEP?

A) It samples students nationally to allow state-to-state educational comparisons.
B) Requires states to have minimum math and reading proficiencies for all students by 2014.
C) It requires educational equality for all students regardless of race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, culture, disability, or sexual orientation.
D) Students must be taught in the "least restrictive" environment.
E) All of these are true.

Answer 2

It samples students nationally to allow state-to-state educational comparisons.

Question 3

Which diagnostic test measures the fundamentals, or the basic codes, related to reading (pronunciation), spelling, and arithmetic?

A) The Wide Range Achievement Test 4 (WRAT4)
B) The Woodcock Johnson III
C) The Wechsler Individual Achievement Test - Third Edition (WIAT-III)
D) The KeyMath-3
E) The Peabody Individual Achievement Test

Answer 3

The Wide Range Achievement Test 4 (WRAT4)

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT a use of tests of educational ability?

A) To assist in the determination of learning problems
B) To assess how well a class, grade, school, school system, or state is learning content knowledge
C) To assist in career and occupational assessment
D) To assist in the determination of giftedness
E) To help determine if a child is ready to move to the next grade level

Question 5

This readiness test stresses personal and social skills as well as adaptive behavior much more than some of the others.

A) Metropolitan Readiness Test
B) Kindergarten Readiness Test (Larson & Vitali)
C) Gesell Readiness Test
D) Kindergarten Readiness Test (Anderhalter & Perney)

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT a diagnostic test?

A) The Wide Range Achievement Test 4 (WRAT4)
B) The Woodcock Johnson III
C) The Wechsler Individual Achievement Test − Third Edition (WIAT-III)
D) The Peabody Individual Achievement Test
E) All of these are diagnostic tests.

Question 7

Which of the following is legally NOT allowed to sit on a school's special education team?

A) School counselors
B) School psychologists
C) Learning disability specialists
D) School social workers
E) All of these can sit on a school's special education team.

Question 8

A school counselor decides to examine all students' cognitive ability and achievement test scores in her school by using the CogAT and the Stanford Achievement Test. She then identifies all students who have significantly higher cognitive ability than achievement scores. Which of the following is NOT likely a source of these differences?

A) Learning disabilities
B) Problems at home
C) Problems at school
D) Motivational problems
E) Poor reliability and validity of the instruments

Question 9

Based on the text, which of the following survey battery achievement tests does NOT include grades 9 through 12 and does NOT have open-ended items?

A) Stanford Achievement Test
B) Iowa Test of Basic Skills
C) Metropolitan Achievement Test
D) Peabody Individual Achievement Test

Question 10

Which of the following do achievement tests usually NOT offer?

A) Individual profile sheets
B) Class grouping sheets
C) Grade grouping sheets
D) School system grouping sheets
E) A national report card

Question 11

Which cognitive ability test measures "analytical abilities through assessing one's capability to find relationships between ideas, general knowledge, and word fluency?"

A) The SAT
B) The ACT
C) The GRE
D) The MAT
E) The MCAT

Question 12

Which cognitive ability test is the most popular college admission exam on the undergraduate level?

A) The SAT
B) The ACT
C) The GRE
D) The MAT
E) The SAT and ACT are both widely used.

Question 13

Although achievement testing has been criticized by some, many positive aspects of them include all of the following EXCEPT:

A) They offer a broad spectrum of how students are achieving in the schools.
B) They offer a number of different kinds of profile sheets to examine how students are doing.
C) They tend to have high reliability and fairly good validity.
D) Used on their own, they are excellent at identifying students with learning disabilities.

Question 14

Which cognitive ability test measures cognitive skills for children K-12?

A) The SAT
B) Miller Analogy Test
C) The Cognitive Ability Test (CogAT)
D) Metropolitan Readiness Test
E) Thematic Apperception Test

Question 15

Which of the following tests tend to have the weakest reliability and validity?

A) Survey battery achievement tests
B) Diagnostic tests
C) Readiness tests
D) K-12 cognitive ability tests
E) College placement and graduate school cognitive ability tests

Question 16

Which of the following is NOT a positive aspect to the use of tests of educational ability?

A) Tests allow us to identify children, classrooms, schools, and school systems that are performing poorly.
B) Without diagnostic testing it would be difficult to identify those children who have a learning disability.
C) Test accuracy has become so good that often wise decisions can be made using only one assessment instrument.
D) Testing allows a child to be accurately placed in his or her grade level.
E) Testing helps children identify what they are good at and helps to identify weak areas they can focus upon.

Question 17

Which of the following is NOT a problem with tests of educational ability?

A) Many tests of educational ability are poorly made. Therefore, decisions based on such tests scores cannot be trusted.
B) Teaching to the test prevents some teachers from being creative.
C) Testing can lead to labeling.
D) Some argue that some tests of educational ability are just a mechanism for majority children to move ahead and to keep minority children behind.
E) Testing causes competition and peer pressure.

Question 18

Which standard score is NOT accurate?

A) WRAT: Mean of 100, SD of 15 (other standard scores are also available)
B) Cognitive Ability Test: Mean of 100, SD of 16 (other standard scores are also available)
C) ACT: Mean of 18, SD of 5 for "average" high school students
D) SAT: Mean of 500, SD of 100
E) MCAT: Mean of 50, SD of 10

Question 19

Which of the following is NOT true as a result of the No Child Left Behind Act?

A) Federal funding is tied to success of school districts relative to achievement test scores.
B) All states must have a plan to show how, by the year 2014, all students will have obtained proficiency in reading/language arts and math.
C) Pressure is on the lower performing school districts to improve test scores.
D) Certain groups of children who have traditionally not done well are given a longer time period than others to show gains in achievement.
E) All of these are true.

Question 20

According to the text, which cognitive ability test attempts to measure ability based on Vernon's hierarchical abilities and Cattell's fluid and crystallized abilities?

A) The SAT
B) The Miller Analogy Test
C) The Cognitive Ability Test (CogAT)
D) The Otis-Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT8)
E) The LSAT

Question 21

Reliability and validity of diagnostic tests is often quite poor.

Question 22

The NAEP is often referred to as the National Report Card.

Question 23

Diagnostic tests (like the WRAT4) can be considered a type of intelligence tests.

Question 24

State achievement testing to measure success toward the benchmarks of the No Child Left Behind Act has placed pressure on school systems to show that all of their students can excel on cognitive ability tests.

Question 25

Match the diagnostic or readiness test with the statement with which it is most associated.
Assesses personal and social skills, neurological and motor growth, language development, and adaptive behavior.

A)Wide Range Achievement Test 4 (WRAT4)
B)KeyMath-3
C)Peabody Individual Achievement Test
D)Metropolitan Readiness Test
E)Gesell Readiness Test
F)Kindergarten Readiness Test

Question 26

Match the diagnostic or readiness test with the statement with which it is most associated.
Provides academic screening in a wide range of content areas.

A)Wide Range Achievement Test 4 (WRAT4)
B)KeyMath-3
C)Peabody Individual Achievement Test
D)Metropolitan Readiness Test
E)Gesell Readiness Test
F)Kindergarten Readiness Test

Question 27

The Stanford Achievement Test is one of the oldest survey battery achievement tests.

Question 28

Surprisingly, predictions of how a student will do in college decreases if you combine the use of the SATs with GPA as compared to using the SATs alone.

Question 29

One problem with the WRAT4 is that it does not eliminate the possible effects of reading comprehension.

Question 30

School counselors can play an important role in the schools by disaggregating data and identifying those students who might need additional assistance with their learning.

Question 31

Match the diagnostic or readiness test with the statement with which it is most associated.
Assesses reasoning, language, auditory and visual attention, numbers, fine motor skills, and several other cognitive and sensory-perception areas.

A)Wide Range Achievement Test 4 (WRAT4)
B)KeyMath-3
C)Peabody Individual Achievement Test
D)Metropolitan Readiness Test
E)Gesell Readiness Test
F)Kindergarten Readiness Test

Question 32

Match the diagnostic or readiness test with the statement with which it is most associated.
Often used to assess learning disabilities.

A)Wide Range Achievement Test 4 (WRAT4)
B)KeyMath-3
C)Peabody Individual Achievement Test
D)Metropolitan Readiness Test
E)Gesell Readiness Test
F)Kindergarten Readiness Test

Question 33

Match the diagnostic or readiness test with the statement with which it is most associated.
Measures literacy for kindergartners (level 1) and reading and mathematics for first graders (level 2).

A)Wide Range Achievement Test 4 (WRAT4)
B)KeyMath-3
C)Peabody Individual Achievement Test
D)Metropolitan Readiness Test
E)Gesell Readiness Test
F)Kindergarten Readiness Test

Question 34

Although open-ended and essay type questions tend to offer a broader assessment of one's ability, the tradeoff is often in lower reliability estimates.

Question 35

On the SATs, students can be compared to a recent norm group by examining their percentile score, or an earlier norm group by examining their standard score. The earlier standard score used a mean of 500 and a standard deviation of 100.

Question 36

Match the diagnostic or readiness test with the statement with which it is most associated.
Offers scrutiny of one specific area of ability.

A)Wide Range Achievement Test 4 (WRAT4)
B)KeyMath-3
C)Peabody Individual Achievement Test
D)Metropolitan Readiness Test
E)Gesell Readiness Test
F)Kindergarten Readiness Test

Question 37

Match the diagnostic or readiness test with the statement with which it is most associated.
Looks at whether an individual has learned the basic codes in three areas of ability.

A)Wide Range Achievement Test 4 (WRAT4)
B)KeyMath-3
C)Peabody Individual Achievement Test
D)Metropolitan Readiness Test
E)Gesell Readiness Test
F)Kindergarten Readiness Test

Question 38

A problem with the Gesell Readiness test is that it does not make clear placement recommendations.

Question 39

Match the diagnostic or readiness test with the statement with which it is most associated.
Useful in making predictions about the future.

A)Wide Range Achievement Test 4 (WRAT4)
B)KeyMath-3
C)Peabody Individual Achievement Test
D)Metropolitan Readiness Test
E)Gesell Readiness Test
F)Kindergarten Readiness Test

Question 40

Predictive validity estimates of college and graduate school cognitive ability tests tend to range from the high .3s to the low .6s.

Question 41

Match the test with the test content area.
The Cognitive Ability Test

A)Survey Battery
B)Diagnostic
C)Readiness
D)Cognitive Ability

Question 42

Match the test with the test content area.
The Miller Analogy Test

A)Survey Battery
B)Diagnostic
C)Readiness
D)Cognitive Ability

Question 43

Match the diagnostic or readiness test with the statement with which it is most associated.
Measures broad content areas in schools

A)Wide Range Achievement Test 4 (WRAT4)
B)KeyMath-3
C)Peabody Individual Achievement Test
D)Metropolitan Readiness Test
E)Gesell Readiness Test
F)Kindergarten Readiness Test

Question 44

Match the test with the test content area.
Wide Range Achievement Test 4 (WRAT4)

A)Survey Battery
B)Diagnostic
C)Readiness
D)Cognitive Ability

Question 45

Match the test with the test content area.
Metropolitan Achievement Test

A)Survey Battery
B)Diagnostic
C)Readiness
D)Cognitive Ability

Question 46

Match the diagnostic or readiness test with the statement with which it is most associated.
Assesses problem areas of learning.

A)Wide Range Achievement Test 4 (WRAT4)
B)KeyMath-3
C)Peabody Individual Achievement Test
D)Metropolitan Readiness Test
E)Gesell Readiness Test
F)Kindergarten Readiness Test

Question 47

Match the test with the test content area.
Metropolitan Readiness Test

A)Survey Battery
B)Diagnostic
C)Readiness
D)Cognitive Ability

Question 48

Match the test with the test content area.
The LSAT

A)Survey Battery
B)Diagnostic
C)Readiness
D)Cognitive Ability

Question 49

Match the diagnostic or readiness test with the statement with which it is most associated.
Assesses whether a student is ready to move on to next level in school.

A)Wide Range Achievement Test 4 (WRAT4)
B)KeyMath-3
C)Peabody Individual Achievement Test
D)Metropolitan Readiness Test
E)Gesell Readiness Test
F)Kindergarten Readiness Test

Question 50

Match the test with the test content area.
The Wechsler Individual Achievement Test − Second Edition (WIAT-II)

A)Survey Battery
B)Diagnostic
C)Readiness
D)Cognitive Ability

Question 51

Match the diagnostic or readiness test with the statement with which it is most associated.
Often used to assess progress in school.

A)Wide Range Achievement Test 4 (WRAT4)
B)KeyMath-3
C)Peabody Individual Achievement Test
D)Metropolitan Readiness Test
E)Gesell Readiness Test
F)Kindergarten Readiness Test

Question 52

Match the diagnostic or readiness test with the statement with which it is most associated.
Measures broad ranges of cognitive ability as opposed to specific content areas.

A)Wide Range Achievement Test 4 (WRAT4)
B)KeyMath-3
C)Peabody Individual Achievement Test
D)Metropolitan Readiness Test
E)Gesell Readiness Test
F)Kindergarten Readiness Test

Question 53

Match the test with the test content area.
Stanford Achievement Test

A)Survey Battery
B)Diagnostic
C)Readiness
D)Cognitive Ability

Question 54

Match the test with the test content area.
KeyMath-3

A)Survey Battery
B)Diagnostic
C)Readiness
D)Cognitive Ability

Question 55

Match the test with the test content area.
The Otis-Lennon

A)Survey Battery
B)Diagnostic
C)Readiness
D)Cognitive Ability

Question 56

Match the test with the test content area.
Peabody Individual Achievement Test

A)Survey Battery
B)Diagnostic
C)Readiness
D)Cognitive Ability

Question 57

Match the test with the test content area.
Gesell

A)Survey Battery
B)Diagnostic
C)Readiness
D)Cognitive Ability

Question 58

Match the test with the test content area.
Kindergarten Readiness Test

A)Survey Battery
B)Diagnostic
C)Readiness
D)Cognitive Ability

Question 59

Match the test with the test content area.
The MCAT

A)Survey Battery
B)Diagnostic
C)Readiness
D)Cognitive Ability

Question 60

Match the test with the test content area.
Iowa Test of Basic Skills

A)Survey Battery
B)Diagnostic
C)Readiness
D)Cognitive Ability

Question 61

Match the test with the test content area.
GREs

A)Survey Battery
B)Diagnostic
C)Readiness
D)Cognitive Ability

Question 62

Match the test with the test content area.
The SATs

A)Survey Battery
B)Diagnostic
C)Readiness
D)Cognitive Ability

Question 63

Match the test with the test content area.
Woodcock-Johnson III

A)Survey Battery
B)Diagnostic
C)Readiness
D)Cognitive Ability