Under which of the following circumstances is a preplanned, systematic intervention often called for as a means of dealing with misbehavior?
A) A student recognizes that there is a problem and wants to change but doesn't know how to go about doing so.
B) The misbehavior is relatively mild in nature.
C) The behavior continues to interfere with a student's classroom performance despite several efforts to curtail it.
D) The student's parents say that the behavior occurs at home as well.
Question 2
A classroom teacher and school psychologist are conferring about Gregory, a boy who works very hard in class and yet shows consistently poor performance in any assignments that require reading or writing. Judging from the textbook's discussion of assessments as a means of diagnosing learning and performance problems, what kinds of assessment results should the teacher and psychologist consider as they try to pinpoint the source of Gregory's difficulty?
A) They should focus on results from tests published by reputable test publishers, because these tests have specifically been developed to assess learning disabilities and other sources of learning difficulty.
B) They should focus on Gregory's performance on weekly classroom tests, which provide ongoing assessment of Gregory's progress.
C) They should conduct an in-depth analysis of Gregory's writing samples, which will be much more informative than test scores.
D) They should look for clues about Gregory's difficulties both in his performance on published tests and in his classroom tests and assignments.