CPACE EXAMS SCRIPT 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+ TIP
✔✔Decision making approaches - ✔✔Rational Model-- all alternatives are identified
until an optimal choice can be made.
Bounded Rationality Model- Impossible to know all options, decisions by satisficing (1st
best option that is above the min. threshold.)
✔✔Heuristic - ✔✔solution through trial and error
✔✔Intuition - ✔✔A feeling that something is right based on perceptions and devoid of
conscious thought
**90% of admin decisions based on intution
✔✔Incrementalizing - ✔✔make small changes when larger actions can not be made
"muddling through"
✔✔Garbage Can Model - ✔✔parties deposit ideas into the can and are selected from a
set of solutions that are in-congruent.
✔✔The Lemon Test - ✔✔The Lemon Test is a three-step process to check if a law
violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
✔✔The Child Benefit Theory - ✔✔The "child benefit theory" is the name given to the
concept that the state may extend certain kinds of welfare aid to students attending
church-related schools in situations where general aid to the parochial schools
themselves would be uncon- stitutional
✔✔Parent Trigger Laws - ✔✔A parent trigger is a legal maneuver through which
parents can change the administration of a poorly performing public school—most
notably, by transforming it into a charter school. The first parent trigger law was passed
by the California legislature in January 2010.
✔✔Public School Accountability Act (PSAA) - ✔✔1999- Authorizes the creation of an
educational accountability system for California public schools. Its primary goal is to
help schools improve and to measure the academic achievement of all students.
✔✔Program Improvement (PI) - ✔✔
✔✔Parent Empowerment Law - ✔✔(SBX54) under performing schools have "open-
enrollment" at any school
✔✔Positive Culture - ✔✔1) supportive atmosphere
2) Good communication between stakeholders
, 3) Inclusive
4) Differentiated instruction
5) Solution focus
6) Community centered
7) reasonable developmental expectations for behavior
8) Caring relationships
9) Warming, inviting classrooms
10) high academic standards
11) consistent, fair application of rules and regulations
✔✔9 Characteristics of High Performing Schools - ✔✔1) Clear and shared focus
2) High standards and expectations for all students
3) Effective school leadership
4) High levels of collaboration and communication
5) Curriculum, instruction and assessments aligned with state standards
6) Frequent monitoring of learning and teaching
7) Focused professional development
8) Supportive learning environment
9) High levels of family and community involvement
✔✔LLBWA - ✔✔Leading and Learning by Walking Around
✔✔Character Education - ✔✔1) Promotes core ethical and performance values of good
character
2) Creates caring community
3) Opportunities for Moral action
4) Fosters self-motivation
5) Staff is an ethical learning community
6) Engages school and community as partners
7) regularly assess culture and climate
✔✔Effective Teachers - ✔✔1) consistent feedback
2) structured & orderly environment
3) Scaffolding and adjust to meet the needs
4) Good pacing
5) apply what's learned in varied and rewarding ways
6) Connect old and new ideas
7) regularly evaluate student understanding
✔✔Students with special needs - ✔✔IDEA
SPED
GATE
ELL
✔✔Jacob K Javits Gifted and Talented Act Title V, Part D, Subpart 6 - ✔✔1988
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+ TIP
✔✔Decision making approaches - ✔✔Rational Model-- all alternatives are identified
until an optimal choice can be made.
Bounded Rationality Model- Impossible to know all options, decisions by satisficing (1st
best option that is above the min. threshold.)
✔✔Heuristic - ✔✔solution through trial and error
✔✔Intuition - ✔✔A feeling that something is right based on perceptions and devoid of
conscious thought
**90% of admin decisions based on intution
✔✔Incrementalizing - ✔✔make small changes when larger actions can not be made
"muddling through"
✔✔Garbage Can Model - ✔✔parties deposit ideas into the can and are selected from a
set of solutions that are in-congruent.
✔✔The Lemon Test - ✔✔The Lemon Test is a three-step process to check if a law
violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
✔✔The Child Benefit Theory - ✔✔The "child benefit theory" is the name given to the
concept that the state may extend certain kinds of welfare aid to students attending
church-related schools in situations where general aid to the parochial schools
themselves would be uncon- stitutional
✔✔Parent Trigger Laws - ✔✔A parent trigger is a legal maneuver through which
parents can change the administration of a poorly performing public school—most
notably, by transforming it into a charter school. The first parent trigger law was passed
by the California legislature in January 2010.
✔✔Public School Accountability Act (PSAA) - ✔✔1999- Authorizes the creation of an
educational accountability system for California public schools. Its primary goal is to
help schools improve and to measure the academic achievement of all students.
✔✔Program Improvement (PI) - ✔✔
✔✔Parent Empowerment Law - ✔✔(SBX54) under performing schools have "open-
enrollment" at any school
✔✔Positive Culture - ✔✔1) supportive atmosphere
2) Good communication between stakeholders
, 3) Inclusive
4) Differentiated instruction
5) Solution focus
6) Community centered
7) reasonable developmental expectations for behavior
8) Caring relationships
9) Warming, inviting classrooms
10) high academic standards
11) consistent, fair application of rules and regulations
✔✔9 Characteristics of High Performing Schools - ✔✔1) Clear and shared focus
2) High standards and expectations for all students
3) Effective school leadership
4) High levels of collaboration and communication
5) Curriculum, instruction and assessments aligned with state standards
6) Frequent monitoring of learning and teaching
7) Focused professional development
8) Supportive learning environment
9) High levels of family and community involvement
✔✔LLBWA - ✔✔Leading and Learning by Walking Around
✔✔Character Education - ✔✔1) Promotes core ethical and performance values of good
character
2) Creates caring community
3) Opportunities for Moral action
4) Fosters self-motivation
5) Staff is an ethical learning community
6) Engages school and community as partners
7) regularly assess culture and climate
✔✔Effective Teachers - ✔✔1) consistent feedback
2) structured & orderly environment
3) Scaffolding and adjust to meet the needs
4) Good pacing
5) apply what's learned in varied and rewarding ways
6) Connect old and new ideas
7) regularly evaluate student understanding
✔✔Students with special needs - ✔✔IDEA
SPED
GATE
ELL
✔✔Jacob K Javits Gifted and Talented Act Title V, Part D, Subpart 6 - ✔✔1988
