CPACE Question and Answer [2026/2027] |
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• What is a formative assessment? -✓✓ A formative assessment is an approach that
is used to evaluate the teacher's performance. Often times, a formative assessment
is done while the teacher is instructing. The evaluator assesses the teacher's
instructional strategies. Also, the evaluator determines if the teacher is instructing
the students based on the curriculum content which is tied to the goals the school
has created. The administrator must review any type of performance evaluation
with the teacher. A copy of the evaluation is always kept in the teacher's personnel
file. Also, the teacher receives a copy of the performance evaluation.
• What are transition services? -✓✓ Under the special education services that
schools are mandated under the Individuals with Disabilities Education
Improvement Act (IDEIA or IDEA) to provide to students with disabilities
includes providing students with disabilities transition services. Transition services
are geared towards students who are 16 years of age and have a disability. Based
on the laws that provide instructions on services for students with disabilities,
schools must offer programs to these students to help them determine and plan
steps that will help them gain success after they leave school.
• What is Due Process? -✓✓ Due process is a basic human right for all. In addition
to being found in the 14th amendment, it is addressed in the 5th amendment
• What are some questions on a teacher's self-evaluation form? -✓✓ Questions that
you include on the teachers self-evaluation form can range from many areas such
as questions regarding the atmosphere in the classroom, the activities that are
carried out in the classroom, the teachers professional involvement, traits and
activities and generalized questions to assess what the teacher sees as areas of
improvement or allow them to write out goals and responsibilities that have been
taken to demonstrate achievement and competency as a teacher.
, • Incremental Budgets -✓✓ One of the more frequent types of budgets that schools
use is an incremental budget. With an incremental budget, the budget for the
current year is started from the budget from the previous year where the school can
either add or subtract income and expenditures, which can include carryover funds.
Further, when using an incremental budget, the school does not have to justify all
expenditures before they are prioritized and included in the budget as with a zero
based budget. Also, incremental budgets are based on the previous year's budget
with fixed percentages factored in to allow for expenditure growths.
• A systematic approach -✓✓ A systematic approach is best for learning about
many things, human behavior in particular. This approach combines observational
and analysis to reach a conclusion. This can include theories that may be tested but
the overarching technique is systematic.
• The Expectancy theory -✓✓ defines motivation in terms of valences and
instrumentality. Valence is internal motivation, which is affected by the external
instrumentality.
• Joseph Murphy -✓✓ concluded that effective schools had principles that focused
on learning ability, ways to assess outcomes, school responsibility, and
establishing a connection with the community.
In regards to learning ability, Murphy concluded that all students had the ability to
learn. The key to learning was to identify each student's skills and provide
opportunities for them to learn based on their skills. Further, schools needed to
develop learning outcomes for the students and then continuously measure these
outcomes to track progress. Also, the schools had a responsibility to help students
learn and realize that learning was not just the responsibility of the students.
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam | Complete Exam
Prep
• What is a formative assessment? -✓✓ A formative assessment is an approach that
is used to evaluate the teacher's performance. Often times, a formative assessment
is done while the teacher is instructing. The evaluator assesses the teacher's
instructional strategies. Also, the evaluator determines if the teacher is instructing
the students based on the curriculum content which is tied to the goals the school
has created. The administrator must review any type of performance evaluation
with the teacher. A copy of the evaluation is always kept in the teacher's personnel
file. Also, the teacher receives a copy of the performance evaluation.
• What are transition services? -✓✓ Under the special education services that
schools are mandated under the Individuals with Disabilities Education
Improvement Act (IDEIA or IDEA) to provide to students with disabilities
includes providing students with disabilities transition services. Transition services
are geared towards students who are 16 years of age and have a disability. Based
on the laws that provide instructions on services for students with disabilities,
schools must offer programs to these students to help them determine and plan
steps that will help them gain success after they leave school.
• What is Due Process? -✓✓ Due process is a basic human right for all. In addition
to being found in the 14th amendment, it is addressed in the 5th amendment
• What are some questions on a teacher's self-evaluation form? -✓✓ Questions that
you include on the teachers self-evaluation form can range from many areas such
as questions regarding the atmosphere in the classroom, the activities that are
carried out in the classroom, the teachers professional involvement, traits and
activities and generalized questions to assess what the teacher sees as areas of
improvement or allow them to write out goals and responsibilities that have been
taken to demonstrate achievement and competency as a teacher.
, • Incremental Budgets -✓✓ One of the more frequent types of budgets that schools
use is an incremental budget. With an incremental budget, the budget for the
current year is started from the budget from the previous year where the school can
either add or subtract income and expenditures, which can include carryover funds.
Further, when using an incremental budget, the school does not have to justify all
expenditures before they are prioritized and included in the budget as with a zero
based budget. Also, incremental budgets are based on the previous year's budget
with fixed percentages factored in to allow for expenditure growths.
• A systematic approach -✓✓ A systematic approach is best for learning about
many things, human behavior in particular. This approach combines observational
and analysis to reach a conclusion. This can include theories that may be tested but
the overarching technique is systematic.
• The Expectancy theory -✓✓ defines motivation in terms of valences and
instrumentality. Valence is internal motivation, which is affected by the external
instrumentality.
• Joseph Murphy -✓✓ concluded that effective schools had principles that focused
on learning ability, ways to assess outcomes, school responsibility, and
establishing a connection with the community.
In regards to learning ability, Murphy concluded that all students had the ability to
learn. The key to learning was to identify each student's skills and provide
opportunities for them to learn based on their skills. Further, schools needed to
develop learning outcomes for the students and then continuously measure these
outcomes to track progress. Also, the schools had a responsibility to help students
learn and realize that learning was not just the responsibility of the students.
