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JANUARY 14 TEST 2
20 questions

The goals that have been articulated for Mabuhay Elementary School include ensuring that all students
1. have equitable access to the curriculum.
Which of the following approaches would best help the
principal evaluate how well this goal is being achieved?
A. evaluating coverage of diverse B. interviewing students with varied backgrounds
perspectives in curricular materials about their learning
C. analyzing the cultural pro�le of the D. examining disaggregated results from recent
students in each classroom assessments</P><P>

Principal Alexander Ong is working with staff to create and implement plans to achieve goals for improved
student learning. In this context, the principal would most appropriately encourage staff
members to conduct research into what other schools are doing as a way to facilitate which of
2. the following processes?
A. predicting likely impediments to achieving B. interpreting assessment results to
school goals and strategies for avoiding them determine strengths and needs in the
school's current program
C. incorporating a variety of diverse D. identifying effective action steps to remedy
perspectives into the school's planning school issues identi�ed through data analysis
efforts

A school's guidance counselors present the principal with a proposal for an innovative guidance
program that has been used successfully in a number of schools around the region and the
country. In making a decision about the proposal, the principal's �rst priority should be to
3. determine whether:
A. the new program would serve to reinforce B. the new program's goals and activities are
and enhance the existing knowledge and skills consistent with the school's current vision and
of guidance staff goals
C. the new program would require additional D. the new program would promote increased
funds beyond those already available to the collaboration between guidance staff and other
guidance program school staff.

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Your SDO's new vision and goals state that students will be able to use a variety of technological
tools to promote their own learning. Principals throughout the province recognize that a signi�cant
amount of new hardware, software, and teacher training will be needed for this initiative to be
successful and that funds currently available are entirely inadequate. Which of the following
strategies would likely be most effective and appropriate for the principals to use �rst in their
4. efforts to gain access to needed �nancial resources?
A. encouraging students' families to contact B. seeking the cooperation of the district's 
local of�cials about supporting the representative in advocating for additional
provision of resources necessary to fund state funding to support the initiative
the initiative
C. asking local media outlets to publicize the D. seeking out foundations and other
initiative and the need for additional school stakeholders that provide funding to support
funding this type of initiative

A recently appointed principal must set an objective and goal for a school where student performance
on all academic measures has been declining for some time. The principal knows that the
current level of parent/guardian and community participation in the life of the school is very low,
as is overall stakeholder support for the school. The principal expects that creating and
5. implementing a new goal in this context will be challenging.
Which of the following strategies
used by the principal would best help ensure that the new vision will have broad stakeholder
support?
A. sharing with members of the school B. creating a representative committee of
community clear, accurate information about school and community leaders to review and
the school's current academic performance critique draft versions of the new goal
and its implications
C.  sharing with constituents research-based D. creating multiple opportunities for
information on the value of a school vision for individuals from diverse segments of the
improving academic performance community to participate in various stages of
the visioning process

Last year a principal led teachers in implementing a plan to incorporate a speci�c set of research-
based techniques into their instruction. The goal of the plan was to increase students' motivation

and engagement in learning. This year during classroom observations, the principal sees that a
few teachers have modi�ed their use of the prescribed techniques in ways that depart somewhat
6. from the original guidelines.
The principal can best respond by �rst:
A. meeting with all teachers to reinforce the B. evaluating the effectiveness of the
value of the new techniques and stress the teachers' modi�cations to the new techniques
importance of consistent schoolwide in
implementation. addressing the school's improvement goals.
C. surveying teachers throughout the school to D. providing retraining to those teachers who
determine their views about the new techniques are not adhering to new techniques as they
and their ef�cacy. were
originally de�ned.

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Bagac Elementary School has been trying a new approach to math instruction during the past couple
of years, but the results have been disappointing. The principal is putting together a team to
consider this problem and identify possible solutions. At �rst, the team was going to include the
principal, an assistant principal, teachers from different grade levels, and the district math
coordinator. The principal then decided to include a representative group of parents/guardians
7. as well.
Which of the following is likely to be the most important bene�t of the principal's
decision?
A. communicating to the school community the B. expanding the range of perspectives and
school's strong commitment to addressing the ideas that will be brought to the problem-
math problem solving
process
C. encouraging the development of a team D. increasing recognition among various school
dynamic that is more positive, balanced, and constituencies that school staff value their
productive input
on education issues

The elementary school principals in a district note that kindergartners enter their schools with
signi�cant disparities in their literacy backgrounds. Some children are already pro�cient readers,
8. while others have little or no prior experience with books.
Which of the following actions taken by
district educators would best help ensure that all young children will have an equal opportunity to
be successful readers?
A. reorganizing the school day for targeted B. putting in place an early intervention
students to substantially expand their time program in which eligible students and their
available for reading instruction families may participate
C. arranging for reading specialists to team with D. expanding the availability and use of
kindergarten teachers for daily reading computer-based literacy programs in
instruction kindergarten classrooms

Following many discussions about disparities in educational results among the student groups in
a school, the principal announces plans to put in place new programs designed to address this
problem. During a meeting to share information about plans for change, many parents/guardians
and community members express anger and dismay upon learning that the new programs will
9. largely be funded at the expense of existing school programs.
The principal can best respond by
emphasizing which of the following ideas?
A. In times of �nancial stress, everyone must be B. School staff will make every effort to
ready to compromise on their own priorities in minimize waste and maximize ef�ciency in the
order to help those in need. delivery
of the new programs.
C. Fairness dictates that those students with the D. The entire community will reap signi�cant
greatest academic weaknesses should receive bene�ts in the long run if all students are
the greatest support. helped to
succeed in school.

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The members of a school governing  council have been sharply divided in their views on how to address an
important school issue, with three members holding one view and two members holding an
10. opposing view. Discussion on the issue has now reached an impasse.
The principal can best try
to achieve consensus among council members by using which of the following approaches �rst?
A. maintaining a neutral position on the issue B. encouraging those holding the majority view
and helping the two sides identify common to make their best case to the remaining two
ground members
C. prompting members on both sides to D. summarizing the two options and using the
consider which option under consideration is in de�ning elements of each of them to generate
the best interest of the school an intermediate option

A Junior High  School principal would like to encourage greater participation by diverse groups in the
11. school based planning and management.
As a �rst step, which of the following actions by
the principal would most likely be effective in addressing this goal?
A. work with Sangguniang Bayan of�cials to B. write an article for the newsletter about the
create districtwide policies that promote importance of promoting broad-based
greater awareness of diversity issues community participation in school governance
C. create a committee of diverse stakeholders D. asking the president of the school PTA  to
to recommend and implement appropriate recruit diverse volunteers for advisory groups
strategies for this purpose

A school principal could best use a press release to the local media to communicate about a
12. decision to:
A. change the school's guidelines regarding B. realign substantial funds from one program
behaviors for which school faculty may be account to another to meet unforeseen needs
disciplined
C. establish a system of awards for recognizing D. grant permission to a larger than expected
outstanding student achievement in various number of  families to homeschool their
subjects children

Which of the following factors has been most responsible for decisions to
place greater emphasis on developing students' problem-solving and decision-making skills
13. across the curriculum?
A. an increase in media in�uence B. a change in inclusion practices
C. an increase in educational accountability D. a change in occupational demands

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Malapad na Bato ES has a signi�cant increase in student

enrollment, resulting in a need for more classrooms. Teachers at
the school, who are concerned about the issues and potential increases in class size, have
lobbied strongly to maintain the status quo as much as possible. The principal knows that much
space currently used for non-instructional activities will have to be turned into regular classroom
14. space. In responding to this challenge, the principal's most important initial priority should be to:
A. seek input from students' families B. ensure that any changes in space utilization
regarding any concerns or ideas they may will not impair the school's ability to meet its
have regarding the nature of the space vision and goals for instruction and learning
changes to be made.
C. limit the space changes that are made to D. obtain approval from the superintendent
those that are likely to cause the least prior to reassigning any instructional space
amount of disruption to the school's within the school
teaching staff

A.  teacher-student ratios.

B. determine state funding levels.
C. support educational accountability.
15. The data in the LIS  is used to determine:D. evaluate school attendance trends.
A. evaluate school attendance trends B. teacher-student ratios
C. support educational accountability D. MOOE allocation

After receiving many complaints about various school maintenance issues, a principal decides to
initiate a review of current school maintenance practices. In conducting this review, the principal
should be aware that long-term maintenance of the physical plant is likely to be most cost
16. effective and least disruptive if school staff emphasize which of the following approaches?
A. implementing an end-of-semester inspection B. avoiding expenditures until repair issues
and maintenance system arise and then completing each repair as
expeditiously as possible
C. completing minor repairs as soon as they are D. putting in place a program of scheduled
discovered and major repairs at the end of each preventive maintenance activities
school year

A principal will be leading a team in updating the school's outdated emergency response plan so
that members of the school community will know what to do in case of a natural disaster or a
17. human-caused emergency situation.
Which of the following steps would be most useful to take
�rst in this effort?
A. solicit information from MDRRM, local B. research each element of the school's
police, �re, and public health personnel about current emergency plan to assess
potential school vulnerabilities and appropriate compliance with relevant laws and
responses regulations
C. reviewing the emergency plans of a sample D. meet with community leaders to identify
of similar schools in the district and compare individuals and resources available to assist the
them with the school's current plan school in various worst-case scenarios

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18. Which of the following actions by a principal would most likely be considered unethical?
A. using of�ce staff time to assist in B. taking an opportunity at a public event to hold a
creating education-related materials that private conversation about a school budget
will be marketed online for personal gain concern with a member of  Sangguniang Bayan
C. refusing to provide local journalists with D. writing a letter of recommendation for a
any information they have requested about minimally competent staff member that fails to
a student who has been arrested for a detail negative aspects of the individual's
serious crime performance

Which of the following situations most clearly illustrates a principal modeling principles of
19. transparency?
A. The principal carefully follows due process B. The principal observes  posting MOOE
procedures in disciplining a student who allocation , disbursement  and liquidation  in
hascommitted a serious school offense. the transparency board
C. The principal recruits representatives of a D. The principal regularly submits required
variety of stakeholder groups to participate in reports to the superintendent on the status of
planning and implementation of a project. the school budget and other matters

20.
What is the  minimum number of  contact and  teaching time for Grades 2-12 based on Deped Order 17, series
2022  " Guidelines  on  the Progressive  Expansion  of  Face to  Face  Classes"?   
A. 5 hours B. 3 hours
C. 6hours D. 4 hours

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