From: Study Guide for Hardman, Drew, and Egan’s Human Exceptionality Society, School, and Family, Seventh Edition prepared by Keith W. Allred, Nevada Department of Education

Chapter Two:

Match each term with its correct meaning.

a. norm-based averages

b. U.S. general education

c. special education

d. self-fulfilling prophecy

e. acculturation process

f. impoverished environment

g. assessment tools

h. nondiscriminatory assessment

2.9_____ Institution that provides an education for the masses.

2.10_____ Field in which the basic purpose is dealing with differences.

2.11_____ Prediction that an individual will become what he or she is labeled.

2.12_____ The instruments, or tests, used to evaluate students.

2.13_____ Testing that does not result in inaccurate reflections of ability.

2.14_____ The average performance scores of agemates.

2.15 _____Home/neighborhood or community lacking important resources.

2.16 _____Socialization resulting from one's unique social/cultural environment.

Complete each sentence with a term that best expresses the meaning.

2.17 A major purpose of general education is to provide education for the masses and to bring all students to a similar level of ______________.

2.18 Current special education efforts focus on individual ______________.

2.19 Effective educational programming for culturally diverse students requires a ______________ effort.

2.20 There is a negative stigma related to ______________.

2.21 Special education services for students who are from cultural minority groups may not be educationally effective in meeting their ______________ problems.

2.22 Children who do not speak English may be viewed by some educators as having speech

or language ______________.

2.23 Not speaking a society’s dominant  ______________may result in an inaccurate assessment of a child’s academic abilities.

2.24 In many cases, economic disadvantage and language differences are found in situations of ______________.