CPACE Test Questions And Answers With Verified Study Solutions

1. In a time of reduced school funding, educational leaders can best help ensure that sufficient resources are available to achieve a school's vision and goals for all student groups by emphasizing which of the following approaches? - using student performance or data and making those areas a priority in terms of resource allocation 2. In a school district where students from particular cultural and language backgrounds are significantly over represented in special education programs, educational leaders can best initiate efforts to address the issue by analyzing: - instructional strategies used with students prior to their referral for special education. 3. Staff at a middle school are ready to implement instructional changes designed to improve students' math achievement. In planning these changes, the school leader has guided staff in a review of current research on math instruction and an examination of students' math performance for the last three years. The leader can best ensure that the planned changes achieve the desired results by prompting the staff to take which of the following additional actions? - developing a plan for assessing student improvement during and following the instructional changes . 4. One goal at an elementary school is to create a climate that reflects a commitment to the belief that all children can learn and achieve success. School leaders can best support achievement of this goal by emphasizing to teachers the value of which of the following classroom practices? - using a variety of grouping strategies for activities 5. In which of the following situations would peer coaching be the most appropriate professional development strategy for a school leader to use? - Teachers have received training on a new instructional strategy and are ready to implement it in their classrooms 6. Which of the following behaviors by members of a high school's school site council should be of greatest concern to educational leaders at the school? - Several members of the instructional staff who are on the council often dismiss/comments and suggestions by non-instructional staff and parents/guardians 7. A new leader takes over at a school that has been characterized in recent years by very high teacher turnover among probationary teachers, with many leaving voluntarily by the end of their probationaryperiod. The leader and the school site council wish to design a program of ' "enhanced support for probationary teachers. Which of the following would be the most useful for the group to take in designing this program? - conducting extensive exit interviews with probationary teachers who have recently left 8. As part of a crisis response plan, educational leaders at a school have established a command and control structure that identifies those individuals who are charged with directing the response to a crisis. To maximize the effectiveness of this system, it would be most important to ensure that: - responsibilities of each individual in the command and control structure are clearly defined in advance for a variety of crisis situations