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What’s on the Test?
The OAE Early Childhood Special Education exam contains 100 multiple-choice questions, and you’ll be timed at two hours.
The test is split into three sections:
1. Understanding Young Children with Special Needs
27% of the exam
- Typical processes of human growth and development
- The developmental significance of disabilities
- Learning processes
- The significance of disabilities for learning
- Evaluating individual differences
- Making placement and programming decisions for young children with disabilities
- Medical aspects and physical management implications of disabilities
2. Promoting Young Children’s Growth and Development
59% of the exam
- Structuring space and time to create safe, stimulating, and developmentally appropriate learning environments for children with disabilities
- Providing an atmosphere that enhances young children’s learning
- Establishing a positive and supportive classroom climate
- Promoting young children’s self-discipline and autonomy
- Promoting young children’s social development
- Promoting young children’s cognitive development
- Promoting young children’s receptive language development
- Promoting young children’s expressive language development
- Promoting young children’s daily living skills
- Emergent literacy
- Promoting young children’s understanding of their world
- Aesthetic development
- Promoting young children’s physical development
3. Working in a Collaborative Learning Community
14% of the exam
- Establishing partnerships with other members of the school community
- Fostering strong school-home partnerships
- Encouraging school-community interactions that enhance young children’s opportunities for learning and development
- Requirements, responsibilities, and constraints associated with teaching young children with disabilities
- The history and philosophy of early childhood special education
- Key issues, trends, practices, and research relating to the education of young children with disabilities
How to Register
To register for the test, you’ll need to create an account on the OAE website. Once your account has been created, you can select “Early Childhood Special Education (013)” as your exam and begin the registration process.
The testing fee is $109.
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How the Exam is Scored
The exam is scored using a scaled scoring method. Here’s how it works:
For every question you answer correctly, you get one point added to your raw score. At the end of the test, your final raw score will be converted to a scaled score. This scaled score will range somewhere between 100 and 300.
The reason your raw score is converted to a scaled score is because everyone that takes the test is given a slightly different set of questions. Since everyone has a different arrangement of questions, and because some questions are harder than others, converting your raw score to a scaled score ensures a more even playing field.
FAQs
How many questions are on the OAE Early Childhood Special Education exam?
The exam contains 100 multiple-choice questions.
What is the time limit for the OAE Early Childhood Special Education exam?
The exam is timed at 2 hours.
What is the passing score for the OAE Early Childhood Special Education exam?
You’ll need to get a final scaled score of at least 220 to pass
How much does the OAE Early Childhood Special Education exam cost?
The testing fee is $109.