After reviewing your School Report Card, you notice rising absenteeism among Grade 7 learners and slight declines in quarterly assessment scores; as the school head, you must decide which indicators to prioritize in your improvement plan to keep your monitoring focused and actionable. Which set of KPIs is the BEST aligned to track both learner achievement and school success while addressing the attendance concern?

• Library book circulation, number of club memberships, and parent volunteer hours

• Average daily attendance, promotion rate, and behavior referrals

• Number of canteen purchases, uniform compliance, and PTA dues collected

• Number of teachers with postgraduate units, number of committee meetings, and electricity consumption

Answer explanation

KPIs should reflect student performance and overall school success (e.g., academic performance, attendance, behavior). Average daily attendance, promotion rate, and behavior referrals directly relate to achievement and readiness to learn.

You are streamlining your school's KPI dashboard for the SPTA meeting, and you need to classify commonly used metrics under Access, Quality, and Governance to clarify accountability. Which classification is MOST appropriate?

• Access: Promotion rate; Quality: Dropout rate; Governance: Stakeholders' participation

• Access: Dropout rate by cause; Quality: Promotion rate and literacy level; Governance: SBM level and stakeholder participation

• Access: NAT mean percentage; Quality: Learner-teacher ratio; Governance: Attendance rate

• Access: Child-Friendly School Survey; Quality: Stakeholders' participation; Governance: Promotion rate

Answer explanation

DO 44, s. 2015 organizes indicators as Access (e.g., dropout rate), Quality (e.g., promotion, literacy), and Governance (e.g., SBM level, stakeholder participation).

During a planning session with department heads, you're asked to validate learning outcomes to ensure assessments align to what students should achieve by the end of a unit. Which statement BEST represents a learning outcome?

• "Administer a 50-item test at the end of the quarter."

• "Students will understand fractions."

• "Students will solve addition and subtraction of unlike fractions with 80% accuracy."

• "The school will improve math scores by 10%."

A new teacher asks why formative checks and performance tasks are required; you must clarify the purpose of classroom assessment per policy. Which answer is MOST accurate?

• To rank students so only the top performers get remediation

• To keep track of progress against standards, promote self-reflection, and profile performance on competencies

• To create grades that strictly follow a school-defined curve

• To replace teaching with self-paced modules

You are standardizing assessment language across grade levels to guide teachers' choices; which pairing BEST matches type and purpose?

• Assessment for learning-final exam to certify mastery

• Assessment of learning-student self-checklists to monitor metacognition

• Assessment as learning-peer and self-assessment to build self-regulation

• Diagnostic assessment-graded midterm used for report cards

A teacher designs a task that asks students to connect fraction operations to real-life budgeting and then present a recommendation for a club event, and you're asked where this sits within the SOLO model. Which SOLO step is MOST reflected in this task's cognitive demand?

• Select

• Organize

• Link

• Output

You want teachers to improve the quality of feedback so students progress from surface to deep understanding; which coaching prompt BEST applies the SOLO model?

• "Just add more items to the quiz."

• "Identify what information students selected correctly, how they organized it, and what links they still need to make before the final output."

• "Curve the grades to raise class averages."

• "Replace projects with multiple-choice tests."

Your Grade 4 team is unsure whether to use a quiz, a rubric-based project, or a pretest for an upcoming unit; as school head, you must guide them to match purpose and method. Which choice is BEST?

• Use a pretest to diagnose prior knowledge before instruction

• Use a final quiz as assessment for learning

• Use a project rubric solely to compute quarterly grades

• Skip diagnostics to avoid bias

A colleague proposes tracking "number of Facebook likes on school posts" to show improvement; you must redirect to KPIs that reflect achievement. Which alternative is BEST?

• Number of campus murals completed

• Average daily attendance, quarterly assessment means, and behavior incidents per 100 learners

• Count of PTA selfies per event

• Number of awards displayed in the lobby

Your team has begun collecting stakeholder feedback and comparing midyear results against the improvement plan's objectives; determine which PDCA stage you are in to plan next steps.

• Plan

• Do

• Check

• Act