Week 6a: Cognitive Assessments

Question 1

What is a Specific learning disability?

Answer 1

Significant discrepancy between intellectual ability and achievement

Question 2

What is an Intellectual disability?

Answer 2

Significantly subaverage intellectual functioning commensurate with significantly subaverage achievement

Question 3

What are key strengths of cognitive assessments?

Answer 3

• Provides normative comparisons with other students
• Useful for classification/eligibility decisions
• IQ tests have shown predictive value in social outcomes

Question 4

What are weaknesses of cognitive assessments?

Answer 4

• No evidence to support Patterns of Strengths & Weaknesses or profile analysis approach
• Decreasing levels of reliability and validity from full-scale IQ tests to sub-scales

Question 5

What is treatment validity?

Answer 5

• How useful process is in terms of implementing effective intervention

Question 6

What are aptitude-by-treatment interactions (ATIs)?

Answer 6

Linking of cognitive assessments to specific interventions

Question 7

ATI’s, and CHC theory, have high treatment validity. (T/F)

Answer 7

False

Question 8

What are the three levels of functioning CBAs rely on?

Answer 8

Mastery, instructional, frustrational

Question 9

Why would we want to keep students at instructional level?

Answer 9

In order for them to be challenged by material and learn from it, but not overwhelmed and defeated by it

Question 10

What are the three major components that dictate student’s ability to succeed academically?

Answer 10

Relationship between instruction, curriculum, and learning

Question 11

What is the key concept underpinning problem-solving view of assessment?

Answer 11

Every child has the ability to learn

Question 12

What are three examples of projective techniques?

Answer 12

1. Rorschach
2. Apperception Tests (TAT)
3. House-Tree-Person (HTP)

Question 13

Why are projective techniques less and less in use nowadays?

Answer 13

Process is highly inferential, requires tons of training, and hasn’t been shown to be consistently effective

Question 14

What is a situational behavior?

Answer 14

Behavior that is dependent on external contingencies

Question 15

What are 4 examples of behavior assessment techniques?

Answer 15

1. Direct observation
2. Teacher/parent rating scales
3. Self-report scales
4. Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)

Question 16

When was the latest edition of the DSM-5 released?

Answer 16

2022

Question 17

What is the “de facto diagnostic system” in educational settings?

Answer 17

IDEIA legislation

Question 18

What is structural analysis?

Answer 18

Provides information regarding the topography of behavior: frequency, duration

Question 19

What is functional analysis?

Answer 19

Provides information regarding the function of behavior

Question 20

Structural analysis is appropriate for progress monitoring (T/F)

Answer 20

True

Question 21

Functional analysis is appropriate for intervention planning (T/F)

Answer 21

True