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Home : 2002 : Jun : 18
I took my SPED area test in March. The test I had to take was 0350 Special Education. It's not the same one you have to take, so I don't know if it's similar or not. Mine was broken down into 5 areas: (1) Understanding Exceptionality; (2) Legal Aspects of Special Education; (3) Assessment/Evaluation in Special Education; (4) Service Delivery and Instruction; and (5) Classroom Management and Student Behavior. I've taken the Praxis I subtests and the Praxis II PLT tests and passed them with no problem. The SPED area test was, for me at least, the hardest test I've ever taken. It really blew me away. I came out okay, but I really worried about my score until the results came in. I don't know how many versions of the tests are given, but I know that one of my fellow classmates took the 0350 test this past November and had a large number of classroom management questions on it. (Even so, she still failed it.) The version I took, however, had a majority of questions concerning service delivery options and transitional planning. I have had very little training in both of these areas, so I had a tough time with a large part of the test. To make matters worse, some of the questions were very straightforward, but most of them were mini case studies which forced me to evaluate a fictitious student from a variety of aspects to figure out what would be best in that particular situation. Almost all of the case studies had to do with transitional planning and service delivery. Our instructors really beat SPED law and litigation into us, so I was ready for a lot of questions on legal stuff. I was so disappointed when I found that there were only a few (13 out of 150) questions on the legal aspects of SPED. From what I understand after speaking to my SPED advisor and other students who have taken the SPED area test (some of them a number of times), the number of questions contained in the five areas covered in the test vary from version to version, so it's hard to just study one area or the other. That being said, if I were you, I would make sure I had a grasp of transitional planning and every type of service delivery option out there.
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