CERTIFIED PUBLIC WORKS PROFESSIONAL
SUPERVISION CPWP-S EXAM 2026
COMPREHENSIVE CERTIFICATION PREP GUIDE
◉ Title III (2001). Answer: Part of the federal No Child Left Behind
Act of 2001, specifically targeted to benefit ESL students: Language
instruction of immigrant studies required for English language
learners
◉ Title IV. Answer: Support programs that prevent violence
◉ Title I. Answer: Provides financial assistance to schools with high
numbers or high percentages of children from low-income families
◉ Title II. Answer: Prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability
◉ New Public Management. Answer: Reliant on business experts
rather than educators to make decisions
◉ Acceleration. Answer: Students can skip academic material or
grades
◉ Formal Teaching Style. Answer: Traditional, lecture-based
,◉ Demonstrator Teaching Style. Answer: Modeling
◉ Facilitator Teaching Style. Answer: Groups and cooperative
learning
◉ Delegator Teaching Style. Answer: Student-led learning, leader
tends to sit back and watch
◉ Hierarchial Leadership Style. Answer: Leaders organize
subordinates into a pyramid-like structure
◉ Transformational Leadership Style. Answer: Leader utilizes
personal creativity, motivation, constant communications, and
relationships to inspire a team with a shared vision and to consider
changes as needed
◉ Facilitative Leadership Style. Answer: Works with entire
management, collective ideas by being a "part of the crowd"
(leadership style for building consensus in meetings)
◉ Norm-Referenced Assessment. Answer: Report whether test
takers performed better or worse than a hypothetical average
student
,◉ IQ (Intelligence) Test. Answer: A norm-referenced test used to
measure cognitive behaviors and to assess student learning abilities
or intellectual capacity, based on what one has ALREADY learned
(poor method of evaluation)
◉ Criterion-Referenced Assessment. Answer: Designed to measure
student performance against a fixed set of predetermined criteria or
learning standards (most used in education and translates test
scores)
◉ Aptitude Test. Answer: Evaluate a student's ability to acquire
skills or gain knowledge
◉ Constructivism. Answer: Learning by doing
◉ Behaviorism. Answer: The theory that human and animal
behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning, without appeal
to thoughts or feelings, and that psychological disorders are best
treated by altering behavior patterns (discounts mental activities,
focuses on those observable)
◉ Piaget's Cognitive Theory. Answer: Theory about the nature and
development of human intelligence; deals with the nature of
, knowledge itself and how humans gradually come to acquire,
construct, and use it (known as Developmental Stage Theory)
◉ Theory of Motivation (Glasser). Answer: The explanation of
human behavior based on internal motivation
◉ Psychomotor Domain of Learning. Answer: Physical or manual
skills (One of the three domains of educational learning / Bloom's
Taxonomy)
◉ Affective Domain of Learning. Answer: Feelings, values, and
appreciation (One of the three domains of educational learning /
Bloom's Taxonomy)
◉ Cognitive Domain of Learning. Answer: Mental skills and
knowledge (One of the three domains of educational learning /
Bloom's Taxonomy)
◉ Programmed Instruction. Answer: (or programmed instruction)
Research-based system which helps learners work successfully. The
learning material is in a kind of textbook or teaching machine or
computer
SUPERVISION CPWP-S EXAM 2026
COMPREHENSIVE CERTIFICATION PREP GUIDE
◉ Title III (2001). Answer: Part of the federal No Child Left Behind
Act of 2001, specifically targeted to benefit ESL students: Language
instruction of immigrant studies required for English language
learners
◉ Title IV. Answer: Support programs that prevent violence
◉ Title I. Answer: Provides financial assistance to schools with high
numbers or high percentages of children from low-income families
◉ Title II. Answer: Prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability
◉ New Public Management. Answer: Reliant on business experts
rather than educators to make decisions
◉ Acceleration. Answer: Students can skip academic material or
grades
◉ Formal Teaching Style. Answer: Traditional, lecture-based
,◉ Demonstrator Teaching Style. Answer: Modeling
◉ Facilitator Teaching Style. Answer: Groups and cooperative
learning
◉ Delegator Teaching Style. Answer: Student-led learning, leader
tends to sit back and watch
◉ Hierarchial Leadership Style. Answer: Leaders organize
subordinates into a pyramid-like structure
◉ Transformational Leadership Style. Answer: Leader utilizes
personal creativity, motivation, constant communications, and
relationships to inspire a team with a shared vision and to consider
changes as needed
◉ Facilitative Leadership Style. Answer: Works with entire
management, collective ideas by being a "part of the crowd"
(leadership style for building consensus in meetings)
◉ Norm-Referenced Assessment. Answer: Report whether test
takers performed better or worse than a hypothetical average
student
,◉ IQ (Intelligence) Test. Answer: A norm-referenced test used to
measure cognitive behaviors and to assess student learning abilities
or intellectual capacity, based on what one has ALREADY learned
(poor method of evaluation)
◉ Criterion-Referenced Assessment. Answer: Designed to measure
student performance against a fixed set of predetermined criteria or
learning standards (most used in education and translates test
scores)
◉ Aptitude Test. Answer: Evaluate a student's ability to acquire
skills or gain knowledge
◉ Constructivism. Answer: Learning by doing
◉ Behaviorism. Answer: The theory that human and animal
behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning, without appeal
to thoughts or feelings, and that psychological disorders are best
treated by altering behavior patterns (discounts mental activities,
focuses on those observable)
◉ Piaget's Cognitive Theory. Answer: Theory about the nature and
development of human intelligence; deals with the nature of
, knowledge itself and how humans gradually come to acquire,
construct, and use it (known as Developmental Stage Theory)
◉ Theory of Motivation (Glasser). Answer: The explanation of
human behavior based on internal motivation
◉ Psychomotor Domain of Learning. Answer: Physical or manual
skills (One of the three domains of educational learning / Bloom's
Taxonomy)
◉ Affective Domain of Learning. Answer: Feelings, values, and
appreciation (One of the three domains of educational learning /
Bloom's Taxonomy)
◉ Cognitive Domain of Learning. Answer: Mental skills and
knowledge (One of the three domains of educational learning /
Bloom's Taxonomy)
◉ Programmed Instruction. Answer: (or programmed instruction)
Research-based system which helps learners work successfully. The
learning material is in a kind of textbook or teaching machine or
computer
