SOCIAL WORK 238 CONTENT EXAM DETAILED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS 2024.
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SOCIAL WORK 238 CONTENT EXAM DETAILED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS 2024.
A committee of general education and special education teachers has been charged with identifying strategies for enhancing school success for students with disabilities. The school social worker can best promote the succes...
SOCIAL WORK 238 CONTENT EXAM DETAILED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS 2024.
A committee of general education and special education teachers has been charged
with identifying strategies for enhancing school success for students with disabilities.
The school social worker can best promote the success of this collaborative effort by:
a. putting in place a system to ensure that each committee member has an opportunity
to contribute to discussions and decisions.
b. requesting that committee members suggest topics to be addressed in each meeting
c. asking the school administrator to participate in committee activities serve as final
authority over decisions of the group.
d. selecting a different committee member to facilitate discussions at each meeting -
ANSWERA ( objective 0009) collaborations is built on the principal that many ideas and
perspectives lead to better decisions and outcomes. ensuring that all participants in a
collaborative effort have an opportunity to express their ideas and perspective is one
way to promote successful outcomes. This approach also helps participate feel that
their input is valued and useful to the groups efforts.
A conflict resolution strategy in which students spontaneously enact situations of conflict
and analyze the enactment with help of other students and the school social worker is
best described as:
a.peer mediation
b.decision making
c. role-playing
d. problem solving - ANSWERc (objective 0003) role playing is a conflict resolution
strategy that teachers students empathy and promotes them to look at actions from
another point of view. In addition, role playing asks students to adopt another's identity
and experience. Students act out a situation and are often asked to assume the role of
the person with whom they are in disagreement.
A first grade student raises a hand to answer a teacher's question. The teacher calls on
the student to answer and then compliments the student on the answer. The student
continues to raise a hand during future lessons. This scenario most clearly illustrates
which of the following theoretical concepts?
a. social constructivism
b.cognitive equilibrium
c.functional contextualism
,d. operant conditioning - ANSWERD (objective 0001) operant conditioning is the
principle that behavior occurs as the result of consequences or reinforcement. In the
scenario, the student raises a hand to answer the teacher's question (the operant) and
the teacher compliments the student on the answer (the reinforcement), resulting in a
continuation of the desired behavior.
A group of school social workers at the middle school level are engaged in a process of
self - assessment to improve their professional practice. The social workers have
analyzed student, educator, and system data as well as personal performance data.
Which the following steps should the social workers take next?
a. establishing professional goals
b. identifying benchmark indicators for growth
c. summarizing current strengths
d. selecting professional development activities - ANSWERA (objective 0011) analysis
of various forms of data reveals specific personal, student, and systemic needs. these
needs provide the basic for establishing professional learning goals, which then lead
school social workers to developing a plan for achieving the knowledge and skills to
achieve the goals.
A high school student informs the school social worker that the student's family has
recently become homeless and is living in a shelter across town that is not in the
school's attendance zone. The student is concerned about having to attend school in
the new attendance zone. Which of the following responses by the school social worker
would most appropriately address the students concerns.
a. explaining to the students that the student is required to attend school in the shelter's
attendance zone.
b. informing the student about the right to stay put in the current school and to be
provided transportation as needed.
c. explaining to the student that they student may finish the school year in the current
school before changing schools
d. informing the student of various housing options available in the current school's
attendance zone. - ANSWERB (objective 0010) The McKinney- Vento Homeless
Assistance Act is a federal law designed to provide assistance to students whoa re
homeless. According to the law, students who are homeless have the right to stay put in
their current school, even if their attendance zone changes. Additionally, students who
are homeless will be provided with free transportation to and from the school. These
provisions are designed to ensure consistency and stability in the students education.
,A high school teacher consults with a school social worker about an eleventh grade
student. The teacher reports that the student, who was recently diagnosed with
depression, is withdrawn, has trouble concentrating, cries occasionally, and has
declining academic performance. Which of the following interventions would be most
appropriate for the social worker to recommend first?
a. providing the student with information about the effects of depression on learning
b. suggesting that the student be evaluated by the crisis team for sducidal tendencies
c. scheduling a meeting with the student to develop an individual plan for classroom
support
d. referring the student to an outside agency for individual counseling related to
depression - ANSWERC. (objective 0001) depression is one of the most common
mental health issues among adolescents and can effect their learning. Student with
depression need specific supports to function effectively in the school environment, and
the support should be specific to the student.
A middle school principal asks the school social worker to design quarterly profession
development for school staff. The social worker can best ensure that the professional
development will be engaging and useful to staff by taking which of the following
actions?
a. providing staff with school wide data to discuss during the professional development
b. defining measurable objectives for professional developmental activities
c. soliciting input from staff about their professional developmental needs.
d. including community agencies in planing the professional development - ANSWERC
(objective 0004_ professional development is designed to provide staff with new
knowledge, skills, and strategies to enhance their professional practice and support
student's school success. By soliciting information from staff about their professional
development needs, the school social worker will be better able to target presentations
to the topics that staff will find most relevant and helpful. This will promote greater
engagement during the professional development and a greater likelihood that staff will
apply new learning to current practice.
A middle school social worker is asked to facilitate meetings of the school's advisory
committee. The committee includes representatives from stakeholder groups. The
social worker is aware that, in the past, some members have raised personal concerns
or issues with other members, resulting in unproductive meetings. In this situation the
social worker can best promote productive advisory meetings by using which of the
following strategies?
a. setting aside time at the end of each meeting for committee members to discuss
interpersonal issues
b. working with committee members to develop ground rules for discussions and
interpersonal interactions
, c. advising committee members to exchange contact information and discuss
interpersonal issues outside of meetings
d. asking committee members who introduce interpersonal issues into discussions to
temporarily leave the meeting - ANSWERB (objective 0009) Advisory committees bring
together individuals with a variety of perspective, ideas, and personalities. It is important
to maintain the committee's focus on the important decisions and plans they are making
and not become distracted by personal issues or conflicts. Working with the committee
to establish ground rules that everyone can commit to will help keep the committee
focused on its work and establish a climate of trust.
A middle school teacher expresses to the school social worker a desire to monitor and
evaluate patterns of student's achievement and performance on assigned projects.
Which of the following initial recommendations by the social worker would be most
appropriate?
a. showing students examples of high quality projects
b. emphasizing the use of group projects over individual projects
c. providing students with scoring rubric when assigning a project
d. discussing with students the weight of projects in final grades. - ANSWERC (objective
0005) A rubric explicitly represents the performance expectations for a project. A rubric
divides the assigned project into component parts and provides clear descriptions of
performance characteristics at the scoring level. A rubric can be sued by students and
the teacher as a guide during the project as well as to evaluate final performance.
Consistent use of this approach will provide the teacher with the information needed to
monitor and evaluate patterns of achievement and performance.
A new student enrolls in a school midway through the school year. The student has
recently arrived in the United States and speaks very little English. The student's
teacher asks the school social worker how to help the student feel comfortable in the
new environment. Which of the following initial strategies would be most effective for
this purpose?
a. arranging for the student to receive tutoring services during the second- language
acquisition process
b. meeting with the student's family to share resources in the community that could
provide supports
c. researching information online about how to work appropriately with students who are
new to the country
d. implementing activities to sensitize the other students in the class to the potential
challenges the new student may face. - ANSWERD (objective 0002) For students who
are new to the country and who speak very little english, it is very important for staff to
ensure that they feel welcomed and accepted in the various school settings (e.g.
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