WorksheetsMometrix Practice Test 1_#54-98
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 23mins
How can a school and its leaders best control the quality of the teaching faculty?
Focus on retaining effective teachers to prevent having to recruit new teachers.
Focus on attracting, retaining, and developing effective teachers.
Focus on hiring and developing effective teachers rather than recruiting new teachers.
Focus on retaining quality teachers rather than firing ineffective teachers.
Which of the following is the best description of a transactional leader?
Willing to purchase new equipment to improve the current system.
Works to change the culture by implementing new policies.
Pursues efficiency in the school system through strong supervision.
Seeks staff and community involvement in developing new ideas.
According to the federal government, the core components of a response strategy to information system threats and breaches are policy, plan, and procedure. Which of the following is a function of the policy component?
Defining staff responsibilities and mechanisms for remediation.
Identifying needed management support and school resources.
Standardizing response tasks and behaviors and averting errors.
Conducting risk assessments on a regular basis as a preparation.
What do psychologists recommend regarding tiered models of student behavior management in education?
Tiered models of behavior management work only with school-wide behavior support systems.
Tiered models of behavior management are most effective when addressing individual disruptive student behavior.
Tiered models of behavior management are most applicable for classroom or school-wide implementation.
Tiered models of behavior management are judged best for individuals, classrooms, or schools.
Which of the following criteria would make a school the best candidate for implementing an integrated management system as new technology for managing school operations?
The school has not been using any digital management system.
The school has been using one management system with no plans for more.
The school has one or more systems and plans on adding more systems.
The school wants separate system policies and documentation.
Which of the following is most effective in motivating members of the educational community when implementing new policies?
Delegating authority to staff members.
Communicating unexpected barriers to the community as they arise.
Sharing the policies frequently using a variety of communication channels.
Including stakeholders in the development of new policies.
Who typically makes student enrollment projections for determining school budgets?
District Offices of Achievement and Accountability alone project the student enrollments.
District Offices of Achievement and Accountability with school leader revision as needed.
The school leader alone projects the student enrollments for his or her school every year.
Final projections are by committees from the district finance and student support offices.
Which of the following describes the school district policy to allow principals autonomy to spend their campus budget as they see fit?
Local school management.
Hybrid financial decision-making.
Budgetary autonomy.
Decentralization.
Which of these is true about the relationship between federal, state, and local laws, and local policies as relates to the school leader’s responsibilities?
The school leader must interpret federal and state laws to determine how these apply at the campus level.
The school leader is responsible for influencing policies and laws at all levels.
The school leader must adhere to local policies unless they directly conflict with state or federal law.
The school leader must vote for federal, state, and local laws in accordance with school district policy.
What correctly represents National Education Association (NEA) guidelines for school acceptable use policies (AUPs) regarding classroom Internet technology?
It should have a policy statement including covered computer services and student use conditions.
It should have a definition section covering important terms used, but a preamble is not necessary.
It should include a section that defines acceptable use, but not one that defines unacceptable use.
It should include a violations or sanctions section, which should only define violations of the policy.
The majority of US state laws designate which school professionals as mandated reporters of child abuse and neglect?
Healthcare and mental health professionals, but not childcare providers.
Teachers, principals, and other school personnel are required to report.
Social workers instead of school social workers are mandated reporters.
Law enforcement officers, but not medical examiners and coroners.
Which of the following best describes school leader responsibilities related to school safety policies?
Leaders must ensure school safety policies comply with federal laws only.
Leaders must notify staff and parents in advance of any changes affecting safety or health.
Leaders are solely responsible for developing and revising safety policies.
Leaders do not have the responsibility of warning parents about environmental hazards.
School emergency response team organization is modeled after the Incident Command System (ICS) of Homeland Security’s National Incident Management System (NIMS). Main ICS functions include Finance. Which of the ICS Management Systems identifies services and resources to support incident response needs?
Logistics.
Planning.
Command.
Operations.
Which is a practice that national research studies find school leaders should avoid when speaking publicly and in other communication with key stakeholders?
Taking advantage of the political environment.
Using commonly understood language with most audiences.
Communicating in response to sensitive situations.
Becoming engaged in large scale open forums.
Which of the following is the least effective way that school leaders can create inclusive school communities?
Encourage students whose parents do not speak English to translate for them when interacting with school staff.
Provide video recordings and resources to parents who miss workshops and meetings.
Validate, honor, and thank family and community for supporting the school.
Hire parent liaisons to help parents access resources and services offered by the school.
What must school leaders consider to mobilize and develop community school support?
Businesses and community-based organizations use the same language that educators use.
Exchanging and matching visions, missions, wants, and needs with stakeholders is sufficient.
Prospective community partners primarily want to know how collaboration benefits schools.
Prospective partner motivations are as varied as the organizations interested in partnership.
Which of the following is true about proactive strategies that successful school leaders have used to overcome resistance to change by school staff, families, communities, and school districts?
People fear change irrespective of school leader commitment.
Administrative support networks enhance change acceptance.
Establishing priorities tends to strengthen resistance to change.
How school leaders communicate has no impact on resistance.
Which of the following sources of data would be most beneficial for a school leader to analyze prior to developing or revising the school vision and goals?
Teacher turnover data, failure rates, and satisfaction survey results.
Student performance data, student attendance data, and student promotion rates.
Community engagement rates.
School accountability ratings for the last three years.
A school leader has developed the vision and goals in collaboration with the campus leadership team and community stakeholders. Which of the following is the best step that the school leader should take next?
Develop a strategic plan for implementing the vision and goals.
Host a community meeting to present the vision and goals to all stakeholders.
Delegate tasks to leadership team members to implement the vision and goals.
Host a meeting with campus staff to present the vision and goals and inform them of their duties and responsibilities related to the vision and goals.
A school principal would like to engage a variety of stakeholders to inform the development of the school mission and vision. Which of the following strategies would best accomplish this goal?
Host a school assembly to get feedback from the student body.
Distribute a survey to students, parents, staff, and community members.
Create a committee of teacher, students, and parents.
Meet with local business owners in the community.
The school leader has established the school goals for the school year and is developing a plan for assessing and monitoring progress. Which of the following strategies would be most effective for monitoring goal progress?
Require leadership team members who have been delegated tasks to report on what they have accomplished each week.
Review student academic performance data in preparation for quarterly community meetings.
Establish time intervals for reviewing indicators of performance, such as monthly or according to grading periods.
Purchase and implement an electronic data management platform that sends automatic notifications when data does not meet predetermined thresholds.
A new middle school principal is concerned about the academic performance of seventh grade students in math. Which of the following actions should the principal take first when developing a plan to improve students’ math scores?
Identify the curriculum, resources, and instructional strategies currently in use.
Allocate funding for math tutors.
Reassign struggling students to stronger teachers.
Administer additional math assessments to identify student weaknesses in math.
A math intervention program that was implemented on a high school campus for the previous school year was funded by a grant that is expired. The principal must determine whether to fund the program using the local budget or to eliminate the program. Which of the following data points would best inform the principal as to whether the math intervention program should continue to be funded?
Student attendance in the program.
Feedback from students regarding the program.
Student math performance data from the beginning of the school year compared to the end of the school year.
Student performance on the state mandated assessment for the previous school year.
The Campus Technology Coordinator recommends to the principal that new desktop computers be purchased for three of the campus’s computer labs. The Dean of Instruction recommends that classroom technology should be upgraded first. Which of the following strategies should the principal implement first to decide how to prioritize these recommendations in the school’s technology budget?
The principal should physically inspect the current equipment to determine which is in the most need of replacement.
The principal should refer to the campus improvement plan to determine how the recommendations align with the vision and goals for the school.
The principal should seek donations from stakeholders to assist with improving technology across the campus.
The principal should determine which of the recommendations is most economical.
Which of the following professional development activities would likely have the most impact on current teacher performance?
A self-paced book study program for all teachers.
Online courses that teachers select and participate in individually at their own pace.
A four-hour in-person training conducted during the school year.
A hybrid online and in-person six-week course that meets weekly for a cohort of teachers.
During the annual summer meeting, the math department chair expresses concern that the math teachers do not have enough collaborative time to plan lessons and discuss student performance. Which of the following solutions would best address the department chair’s concern?
Make adjustments to the master schedule to allot collaborative planning time for the math department.
Offer extra duty pay for math teachers to stay after school and plan together.
Purchase a technology platform that will allow the teachers to communicate asynchronously online.
Place substitute teachers in the math classrooms monthly to allow teachers time to plan together.
Which of the following practices by school leaders most effectively improves teacher practice and student learning?
Reviewing student performance data and sharing aggregated results with teachers.
Administering self-assessment surveys to teachers.
Conducting regular classroom observations and providing timely feedback.
Offering educational resources to teachers related to their identified areas of weakness.
The Dean of Instruction conducted a classroom observation of a 7th grade math teacher and noticed that the math teacher was not following the curriculum for the math department. When asked, the math teacher informed the dean that the students were not ready for the standards identified in the curriculum and that he chose to review standards from 6th grade instead. Which of the following would be the best response from the dean to the math teacher?
Commend the math teacher for addressing the gaps in student learning.
Require that the math teacher attend training on the math curriculum.
Model instruction of the standards outlined in the curriculum.
Direct the math teacher to teach the standards outlined in the curriculum.
Which of the following actions best demonstrates collaboration with teachers to maintain an instructional program that delivers standards-based instruction?
Audit instructional materials used in the classroom, including worksheets and teacher-developed materials.
Compare student course grades to performance on standardized tests.
Engage in professional learning communities with teachers to contribute to planning discussions about the curriculum.
Survey teachers to obtain feedback about new curriculum options.
A school leader wants to become more involved in analyzing student work on campus. Which of the following actions should the school leader take to accomplish this goal?
Audit student work samples and discuss the student performance demonstrated with the teachers who assigned the work.
Monitor teacher grade books.
Host a science fair.
Mandate that teachers assess student learning using portfolios.
A Dean of Instruction of a middle school wants to increase the number and variety of resources that teachers have access to. Which of the following actions should the dean take to accomplish this goal?
Encourage teachers to purchase instructional resources and provide reimbursement for their expenses.
Survey teachers to identify which resources they would like to have and purchase resources from their suggestions.
Provide teachers with asynchronous, on-demand professional development sessions online.
Seek free and discounted resources from vendors in the local area.
Which of the following actions best demonstrates a middle school leader monitoring instructional practices and student progress to ensure that all students are prepared for a challenging curriculum?
Offering a summer bridge program for underperforming seventh grade students entering eighth grade.
Reviewing the performance of incoming sixth grade students on standardized tests.
Evaluating the course grades of eighth grade students enrolled in an Algebra I course for high school credit.
Comparing student performance on standardized tests to course grades to determine alignment of assessment.
A high school principal is concerned that ninth grade students who read below grade level are not performing well on benchmark tests in Reading and Writing. Which of the following steps should the principal take to best address this concern?
Provide test preparation sessions for these students after school and on weekends and monitor student attendance to the sessions.
Integrate reading and writing skills into all subject areas and provide training to all teachers on fundamental reading strategies.
Increase the opportunities that students have to spend in the school library.
Purchase a reading software program that students can use at home.
The school principal reviews classroom observation and feedback with assistant principals weekly, but often has very few classroom observations of their own conducted in preparation for the weekly meeting. What action should the school principal take to increase the frequency of classroom visits?
Make a commitment to visit classrooms every morning before the day gets too busy.
Clear their schedule on a specific day of the week to dedicate to classroom visits.
Plan out the classrooms that should be visited for the week and add them to the calendar with reminders.
Carry classroom observation forms at all times and visit classrooms when an opportunity presents itself.
A middle school principal wants to improve the quality of teaching and learning on campus on a continuous basis throughout the school year rather than only reviewing annual performance data and making changes prior to the start of the school year. Which of the following strategies would best help the principal to achieve this goal?
Assess students every six weeks using benchmark exams and use the data to adjust the instructional program.
At the start of the school year, administer a comprehensive exam to determine what information students retained over the summer.
Administer a comprehensive exam to students at the beginning of the school year, in the middle of the school year, and at the end of the school year and use the data to make plans for the following school year.
Require that teachers maintain portfolios for all students to demonstrate learning and growth over the course of the school year.
A high school principal has been invited by a community leader to participate in a community event in which the principal will have a brief opportunity to address the community. Of the following, which information would be most important to share with the community stakeholders at this event?
Provide information on how to sign up to be a volunteer at the school.
Recruit volunteers and mentors for at-risk students.
Provide updates on progress toward the school vision and goals.
Describe opportunities to collaborate with businesses in the community.
Which of the following best demonstrates that the school leader ensures that the physical plant is functional and in compliance with local, state, and federal regulations?
The school leader includes the Plant Operator in leadership meetings to report on the status of the school facility.
The school leader requires that teachers and staff submit monthly reports regarding the condition of their work areas, such as classrooms and offices.
The school leader maintains hard and soft copies of documents necessary for audits by local agencies.
The school leader physically inspects the school facility weekly.
For the third subsequent year, a school leader has had 40 percent turnover of teaching staff. This high rate of turnover has impacted the campus negatively and the school leader wants to address this concern. In a stakeholder meeting, the leader asks members to brainstorm suggestions for addressing teacher retention. Which of the following suggestions should the school leader implement first?
Administer a survey to teachers to get their feedback on what they like and dislike about working at the campus.
Petition the district to raise teacher salaries.
Offer bonuses to teachers who produce good student performance results on standardized assessments.
Provide mentors to new teachers on campus.
Which of the following does not demonstrate that an education leader proactively addresses challenges to student emotional safety?
The education leader collaborates with the school counselor to design a referral system for students experiencing an emotional or mental crisis.
The education leader provides information about free resources in the community for mental health needs to all parents and stakeholders at the beginning of the school year.
The education leader creates a grief counseling group following the suicide of a student.
The education leader schedules a counselor to visit the school monthly.
An elementary school principal serves at a school in which many of the parents of students speak little or no English. The language barrier creates challenges in communication, parent engagement, and the reinforcement of learning at home. Which of the following actions would not help the principal to address this challenge?
Hire a translator to communicate with parents.
Partner with an adult ESL program in the community and offer free ESL classes on campus.
Translate all school documents to the languages of the parents.
Ask students to translate information for their parents.
The school principal was informed by school district personnel that a parent complaint had been filed against the school. A student’s relative who did not have guardianship of the student called the school and was informed by the attendance clerk of the student’s schedule and attendance. Which of the following best describes the error of the principal?
The principal failed to monitor the systems and procedures to protect the confidentiality of the student.
The principal had poor judgment in hiring the attendance clerk.
The principal should have taken the phone call themselves.
The principal did not make an error in this situation.
A high school principal determines that it is no longer financially viable to sponsor the fine arts program at the school. Enrollment in fine arts courses has steadily decreased over the past four school years and the expenses of the program have exceeded the budget. However, the principal knows that many stakeholders in the community feel strongly about having a fine arts program. Which of the following represents the best action for the school principal?
Continue to offer the fine arts program.
Make an announcement to the students and staff that there will not be a fine arts program next year.
Host a fundraiser for the fine arts program.
Host a meeting to explain to stakeholders the reasons for eliminating the fine arts program.
A teacher sponsors an afterschool club for knitting. Members of the club are all female students, but a male student has requested to participate. The sponsor told the student he could not participate because knitting was an activity for girls. The male student and his parents complained to the principal. Which of the following actions should the principal take first?
Create a knitting club for male students.
Force the sponsor to allow the male student to participate.
Speak with the teacher about the stereotypes and bias that impacted their decision.
Support the sponsor’s decision because it is their club.
A school principal would like to develop a positive partnership with the school community. Which of the following actions would best help the principal to achieve this goal?
Publish a monthly school newsletter with reminders for important school events.
Host a student award ceremony each semester to highlight school and student successes.
Attend all school athletic events.
Send a survey to all community members to get their feedback on school performance.
A doctor who has a clinic in the community informs the principal that she is willing to provide free physicals to students at the school who would like to participate in athletics. How should the principal respond?
Decline the offer because students are responsible for getting physicals completed on their own.
Decline the offer if all students cannot receive a physical, not just athletes.
Accept the offer and create a log to document students who take advantage of the free physical.
Accept the offer only if the doctor can complete the physicals on campus after school hours.
