Introduction to school counseling 1st edition wright test bank

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Introduction to School Counseling

Test Item Bank Chapter 2

Robert J Wright

Professional Counseling in the Schools

Multiple Choice Questions: Select the one best answer to each of the following questions

1 Which of the following statements about the history of school counseling programs before 1970 is true?

A All school counselors were originally certified teachers ***

B School counselors in training had to take a semester off to complete an internship

C Most states did not bother to develop school counseling certification

D Only volunteering teachers were assigned school counseling duties by their school principals

2 Which of the following statements about the job market and being hired as a school counselor is not true?

A Certification as a teacher as well as a school counselor can protect a school

counselor during a ‘reduction in force’

B Human resources offices for school systems tend to write highly structured and exacting job descriptions for the expectations of a school counselor

C All other things being equal, a teacher certified school counselor has a better chance to be employed by a school administrator ***

D Over 40 states do not require school counselors to have first been a classroom teacher before qualifying as a school counselor

3 In studies of school counseling interns with classroom teaching backgrounds and those who never were teachers, researchers including Jean Peterson found which of the following to be true?

A Those who were teachers then became counselors had credibility problems

with their teaching peers

B Those who were teachers first, then became counselors had better communication and

management skills than their non-teacher peers ***

C Differences in communication and classroom management skills present at the start of a counseling career are long lasting and can be found after 10 or more years

D Those who were teachers before they became school counselors correctly

anticipated the flexibility that the school counseling schedule provides

4 A model for an intense supervision program for school counseling interns without previous

classroom experience was proposed by Peterson and Deuschle Which of the following is not part of that intense program?

A Immersion

B Observation

C Awareness

D Criticism ***

5 Which of the following is true about the relationship between school counselors and the school’s collective bargaining unit?

A Only nine states bar educators from negotiating collective contracts for all

teachers and school counselors ***

B The American Federation of Teachers is the largest of the unions representing

teachers and school counselors

C College professors of ‘teacher education’ make up the majority of members of the National Education Association

D The AFT was first granted a charter by Samuel Gompers, President of the

American Federation of Labor

6 What proportion of a school counselor’s time should be spent in direct service delivery according to

the ASCA National Model: A Framework for School Counseling Programs (2005) ?

A 20%

B 40%

C 60%

D 80% ***

7 Privileged communication is best described by which of the following statements?

A The privilege of sharing confidential information between a school’s

counselor and a student client is determined by the school system’s school

board

A A right of clients to control who can access communications between the

counselor and client ***

B A right of the counselor to control who can access communications between

the client and counselor

C Same as the concept of confidential communications between counselor and

client

8 What power did the case known as Debra P v Turlington (1981) provide to the states?

A The right to place children in special education programs as needed

B The right to eliminate parents from confidential conferences related to entitlement decisions

C The right to force any child to repeat a grade without considering parental wishes

D The right to deny any student from earning a high school diploma without considering courses completed of grades earned ***

Amendment?

A History of psychological problems in the family

B Family member’s income level

C Patterns of sleep and wakefulness ***

D Family political party affiliation

10 Which of the following provisions is a requirement of the ‘Buckley Amendment’?

A All schools must maintain student records for 7 years after a child has

graduated from 12th grade or dropped out

B Parents have a right to see all records about their child and have them

explained in the parent’s native language ***

C All teachers of a school have unfettered access to all student records

maintained by the counseling office

D School based student records should be replete with educational and

psychological jargon so as to conceal the meaning of reports etc from all but

the highly educated professionals of a school

11 The murderous behavior of Prosenjit Poddar resulted in the ASCA changing a core

ethical position in 1981 What was the change?

A Counselors have a responsibility to provide threatened persons fair warning to

avert foreseeable danger being posed by a client ***

B Counselors are shielded from litigation in cases of suspected child abuse

C School counselors are shielded from legal action if they refer a girl to a

Planned Parenthood®

D Counselors can be terminated for cause if they fail to report test cheating they

learn about in counseling sessions

12 What gave all American children the right to a free and appropriate public education?

A Elementary and Secondary Education Act (1964) and revisions

B Oliver L Brown, et al v Board of Education of Topeka, KS (1954)

C Individuals with Disabilities Educational Improvement Act (IDEA)

D PARC v the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1971) ***

13 In education litigation for student rights what part of the U.S Constitution is most often used as the basis for judicial decisions and subsequent case law?

A The 2nd Amendment

B The ‘Powers not otherwise granted’ statement

C The 14th Amendment ***

D The Preamble statement of ‘We the People.’

14 What is the essence of a positive school climate?

A When the static electricity in a school causes students to ‘zap’ each other

B Greeting one another with a friendly and positive statement

C High quality climate control and air handling

D A school with a happy faculty and engaged hard working students ***

15 What factor has removed the final ‘safe harbor’ of the home for many children today?

A Personal networking pages on the Internet ***

D Neighborhood birthday parties

E School bullies

F Excessive homework assignments

16 What is the ASCA recommendation for the maximum size of a caseload for a school counselor?

A 750

B 500 to 749

C 300 to 499

D 100 to 299 ***

E

17 What is the average caseload for an American school counselor (2009) ?

A Between 200 and 300

B Between 301 and 500 ***

C Between 501 and 900

D Over 901 students per counselor

18 Survey research by the Nielsen Co.™ indicated that the average American teenager sends how many text messages each month?

A Between 250 and 500

B Between 501 and 1,500

C Between 1,501 and 2,500 ****

D Between 2,501 and 5,000

19 The passage of PL 99-457 (1986) changed many of the rules for school nurses What was the

impact of that law?

A School nurses must have a ‘nurse practitioner’ license

B School nurses and public schools must service children who are at risk in preschool programs

***

C All public schools must provide school nursing services at a maximum ratio

of 1 to 1000 children

D Health record keeping about the children of a school must be purged annually

by the school’s nurse

20 Unlike the acquisition of receptive and expressive oral language development, the acquisition of the ability to read is not a natural process One proof of that premise is the number of children who find learning to read to be the most difficult task they have ever faced What proportion of children fall into that category?

A 20% ***

B 33%

C 50%

D 67%

True-False Questions for Chapter 2 Select the best binary option for each of the following questions

1 School counselors are protected from the danger of job loss during a school’s RIF (F)

2 Teachers that later become school counselors gain a new attitude toward other classroom teachers (T)

3 Criticism is a central part of the model for ‘intense supervision’ proposed by Peterson and Deuschle (F)

4 School counselors, like school administrators, should not become part of the union representing teachers in a school (F)

5 The American School Counselor Association provides collective bargaining for school counselors in

41 of the 50 states (F)

6 Curriculum maps provide counselors with a framework around which school counseling and group guidance activities can be planned (T)

7 School counselors cannot assure student clients of total confidentiality of their conversations (T)

8 A single score on a high-stakes test can be used to deny a student receiving special education

services (with an IEP) from ever earning a standard high school diploma (T)

9 Most case law regarding student rights is based on the U S Constitution’s 14th Amendment (T)

10 ‘Advocating for children’ implies the counselor should react quickly to problems (F)

Short Essay Questions for Chapter 2

1 What aspect of the role of being a school counselor has been shown to be most surprising to

classroom teachers that later become school counselors?

2 Briefly describe the history of the National Education Association as a collective bargaining

representative for public school educators

3 What children are described by the U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service as having

‘mixed status’?

4 What is the meaning of the term ‘high-stakes test’?

5 Explain what an ‘inclusive classroom’ describes How is it different from other classes?

6 What is an entitlement decision?

7 Explain the difference between privileged communications and confidential communications

8 Approximately how many times a day does the average American teenager send or receive a text message or email?

9 What is the core part of the U.S Constitution that provides students with ‘student rights’?

10 What was part 054 of the Vocational Education Act, and what impact has that legislation had on American education?

Long answer essay questions for Chapter 2

1 What are the advantages and disadvantages for having school counselors who were first certified and employed as classroom teachers before becoming certified as a counselor?

2 Discuss the basis on which school counselors should be compensated Include in your answer the issues of collective bargaining through the NEA and/or the AFT How should teacher pay and school counselor pay be apportioned? Justify your point

3 Discuss the difference between privileged and confidential communications between a school

counselor and student? What are the limits of each?

4 Explain the relationship of professional associations (e.g., ACA) and collective bargaining units (AFT) in the professional life of a school counselor Compare them and contrast their aims and

objectives

5 What are the main provisions of the ‘Buckley Amendment’ to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974? Which of these rights should school counselors be most mindful about? Explain your choice