Intro to CSD Quiz 6

Which is the most frequent role of persons in the communication disorders professions?

• university faculty

• administrator

• direct service provider

• consultant

Assessment occurs at which of the following times?

• before diagnosis and intervention

• during intervention

• after discharge from intervention

• all of the above

If a nurse is providing care for a patient who just had a stroke, and he/she notices that the patient shows evidence of a swallowing problem, what would the nurse most likely do?

• designing an intervention program

• administer an assessment program to diagnose the patient's problem

• make a referral to a speech-language pathologist

• all of the above

Which of the following is an examination of an individual’s developmental, educational, and medical history?

• systematic observation

• chart review

• instrumentation

• artifact analysis

Online examination of performance refers to which of the following?

• administering a test in a uniform and specific way

• reliance on technical instruments

• studying a communicative process as it happens

• using assessment to study the outcomes of communicative processes

Which of the following describes the process of distinguishing a disorder from other possible alternatives?

• prognosis

• diagnosis

• remediation

• scaffolding

Which is NOT a characteristic that goals identified through the assessment process should exhibit?

• comprehensive

• functional

• attainable

• measurable

Which type of instrument’s goal is to compare an individual’s performance in a particular area to that of his same-age peers?

• norm-referenced

• performance-based

• criterion-referenced

• dynamic

Which term refers to the number of items scored correctly or incorrectly on a test?

• standard score

• raw score

• age-equivalent score

• standard metric

What are the two parameters that define the standard normal distribution?

• a range of 100, and 10 grouping categories

• a mean of 0, and positive and negative standard deviation of 15

• a mean of 100, and raw scores of 15

• a mean of 100, and standard deviation of 15