Standardized Assessments Are Problematic for Students with Severe and Multiple

question 24

Multiple Choice

Standardized assessments are problematic for students with severe and multiple disabilities for each of the following reasons EXCEPT:

• A)They can lead to instruction in age-inappropriate and nonfunctional skills
• B)The results fail to help teachers decide what to teach
• C)Students with significant disabilities are not capable of learning higher-order skills
• D)The results fail to help teachers decide how to teach

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Definitions:

Classical Conditioning

An educational process that takes place by linking an external stimulus with a stimulus that occurs naturally.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus.

Punishment

An adverse event or outcome that decreases the likelihood of a behavior being repeated in the future.

Operant Conditioning

Learning resulting from the response an organism receives following a behavior.