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1. Double-loop learning
An effective - structured way that captures people's learning from an experience.
Hard data
Focused on fundamental changes to thinking patterns and behaviors
Multiple intelligences theory

2. The reliability test where one test is split into two shorter ones - by randomly assigning test items to one half or the other
An effective - structured way that captures people's learning from an experience.
Rapid instructional design (RID)
Interviews
Split-half

3. The seating arrangement is the least conducive to stimulating group discussion
Program Evaluation Review Technique. A diagramming technique that enables project managers to estimate a range of task durations by estimating optomistic - pessimistic - and likely durations for each task.
Presentation software
Brainstorming - case studies - and role plays
Theatre style

4. The four components of a learning objective
Electronic Performance Support System. Software that provides just-in-time help - guidance - coaching - or assistance to improve job performance.
Knowledge in one's personal memory - includes judgment - insights - experience - know-how - personal beliefs - and personal values.
Audience - Behavior - Condition - and Degree
Presentation software

5. Four variables that effect how members of a culture think and express themselves
An unknown or uncontrolled variable that produces an effect
Cost or budget - lesson content - learner background and expectations - time available - and facilities/equipment/materials
Social contexting - contexting - authority - and concept of time
Electronic performance support system (EPSS)

6. Three conditions that warrant multi-rater feedback
The sum of the numbers divided by the total number of values
Problem - action learning group - emphasis on careful questioning and listening - resolution to take action - commitment to learning - group facilitator/learning coach
Entertainment - interaction - control - usability - and customization
Weak manager judgments or experience levels - identified talent shortages - organization culture suports structured programs

7. LMS
Functional context
The most frequently occurring value
Learning Management System. Software that automates administration - tracking - and reporting of learning events (ILT and online).
Lack of knowledge or skills - lack of physical resources - process problems - lack of information - lack of leadership - lack of information on consequences - lack of motivation - inadequate feedback - inadequate incentives - performer's lack of capa

8. Four characteristics of effective openers

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9. Change management
Entertainment - interaction - control - usability - and customization
Websites where users post questions - thoughts and observations - and can reply to other users postings of the same
Identify business goals - clarify those goals - determine specificity and measurability of the goals.
Change is a process not an event. Change management is the process of directing change at each level of an organization.

10. The technique - developed by Georgi Lazanov - that uses the instructional application of stimulating the body and mind at peak efficiency to develop super-learning capabilities
Rapid instructional design (RID)
Suggestopedia
Perform a front-end analysis
Likert scale

11. The two mechanisms the chaos and complexity theory focus on
Feedback
Hard data
Formulation - Development - Implementation - Evaluation
Information - feedback

12. The third component of the ASTD HPI model
Performance audit
Cause Analysis
Speed - quantity - quality/accuracy - thoroughness - timeliness
Determine business impact - improve the design of the learning experience - determine the content's adequacy

13. The instrument where participants rate two contrasting ideas or words by circling points on a line
Subject-matter expert
Semantic differential
Learner-centered - content-centered
Create new hire training - develop behavior-based interview questions - write performance objectives - prepare employees for career progression

14. The system that uses knowledge - skills - and attitudes (KSAs) to describe three types of learning

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15. Two characteristics of distance learning
Separation of place - time - or both among learners - instructors - and learning resources; Interactions are conducted through one or mode media.
Culture - vision - strategy - and structure
Characteristics of adults as learners (CAL) conceptual framework
Psychomotor skills

16. Data
Information that combined with understanding enables understanding
Learning technologies
Speed - quantity - quality/accuracy - thoroughness - timeliness
Raw and non-contextual - and can exist in forms usable or not

17. The learning domain that focuses on the skills and knowledge relating to an activity such as changing a car's oil
Cognitive
Maslow's hierarchy - McGregor's Theory X and Y of management
Questions that stimulate discussion
A variable the influences the dependent variable

18. Level 1 evaluation
Pareto analysis
The minimum time schedule for completing all the tasks in a project with several overlapping or dependent tasks.
Reaction
The process that enables organizations to create short reference materials with relevant information by reducing information into codified - categorized - and reusable content.

19. The way a person prefers to learn new content
A variable in whole number or distinct units (opposed to continuous)
Structure
Do not discriminate in any aspect of employment based on disabilities - with reasonable accommodations such as interpreters - reading aids - instructional material modifications - etc.
Learning style

20. Five stages of Tuckman's team-maturing model
Review of objective and key points - review participant benefits - call participants to action - ask participants if they have any questions.
Benjamin Bloom
Behavorism
Form - storm - norm - perform - and adjourn.

21. Four phases of succession planning
Focused on fundamental changes to thinking patterns and behaviors
Change Management
Adult learning theories - instructional design techniques
Establish scope - create plan - implement plan - monitor/evaluate/revise plan

22. The theory that describes how intelligences reflect how people prefer to process information
Rapid instructional design (RID)
Slides
Multiple intelligences theory
To improve performance by systematically developing human expertise through organizational development and training

23. The seven characteristics of good dialog
Harless' front-end analysis model
Maslow's hierarchy - McGregor's Theory X and Y of management
Relevance - inquiry - freedom - connectedness - reception - empowerment - play
Email - whiteboard - bulletin boards - chat rooms - online presentation tools - WIKIs - Blogs - forums - social sites

24. The purpose of an after-action review

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25. The measure that is defined by mean - median - and mode
Reaction
Long-term process for performance improvement based on 1-on-1 interactions where mentee retains the responsibility for improvement
Request for proposal. A communication from an organization to potential vendors that defines the organizations needs and how to respond to those needs.
Central tendency

26. Three tasks for knowledge mapping
Central tendency
Documentation audit - information system survey - identification of external information sources
Ideas - processes - procedures - methods of operation - concepts - principles - and discoveries
Myer-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - DiSC personality profile

27. The seven attributes essential for leadership per Warren Bennis
Purpose and character of use (commercial or nonprofit educational use) - nature of the copyrighted work - amount of the work used in relationship to the whole of the work - effect on the market potential for or value of the copyrighted work
Weak manager judgments or experience levels - identified talent shortages - organization culture suports structured programs
Technical competence - people skills - conceptual skills - results - taste - judgment - character
A measure of the variability of scores from the mean

28. Standard deviation
A measure of the variability of scores from the mean
Business needs - performance needs - learning needs - and learner needs
Learning style
Terminal objectives

29. Information Architecture
Cost or budget - lesson content - learner background and expectations - time available - and facilities/equipment/materials
Relevance - inquiry - freedom - connectedness - reception - empowerment - play
Questions that check for understanding or test for consensus
A description or design specification for how information should be treated and organized.

30. The way of learning that stresses experience and reflection - and uses an inductive learning process that takes a learner through five stages: experiencing - publishing - processing - generalizing - and applying
Bloom's Taxonomy
Indicate whether response was correct - explain an incorrect response or clarify a correct response - give instructions on how to proceed
A variable in whole number or distinct units (opposed to continuous)
Experiential learning

31. Four characteristics of tasks that are well-suited for job aids
Reaction
Pilot tests - technical reviews - production reviews
Inputs - outputs - process controls - and resources.
Low frequency - high complexity - high consequence of error - high probability of change in the future

32. Who is credited with the idea that learning objectives should contain a condition statement - a performance statement - and a criterion statement
Focused on fundamental changes to thinking patterns and behaviors
Self-contained chunk of instructional material
Measures of quantity or numbers
Robert Mager

33. Four things a coach does
Bloom's taxonomy - six sigma - Kepner-Tregoe
Data - Information - Knowledge
Identify performance gaps - gains commitment to learning - constructs practice to close gaps - drives application and reflection to improve competence
Balanced scorecard

34. The ability of the same measurement to produce consistent results over time
Interview - survey/questionnaire - observation - focus group - work diary/work log
Convergers - divergers - assimilators - and accommodators
The whole is more than the sum of the parts - patterns are everywhere in the system - cause and effect is never simple - history does and does not repeat itself - change come from chaos - the future can and cannot be predicted
Reliability

35. learning object
Silence
Self-contained chunk of instructional material
Cross-functional - cross-country/international
Balanced scorecard

36. Triple-loop learning
Focused on fundamental shifts in how people view themselves - and intentional alterations of beliefs and values about the world and themselves
Monetary impact/ROI
Indicate whether response was correct - explain an incorrect response or clarify a correct response - give instructions on how to proceed
High cost - scheduling difficulties - and temporary (unless learners have opportunity to practice)

37. Two guiding principles of displaying quantative data in charts and graphs
Questionnaires - follow-up interviews - observation checklists
Scaling and integrity
Rehersal
Seels and Glasgow instructional systems design model

38. What is the primary reason for 360-degree feedback
Technology - new products - shareholders - financial conditions - system challenges - process challenges - policies
Disengagement - disidentification - disorientation - and disenchantment.
Balanced scorecard
To aid in career planning

39. The six founding principles of systems thinking
No right or final answers - cause and effect not related to space and time - all solutions require careful consideration - behavior gets worse before it gets better - all systems have limits - foresight benefits the organization
Job analysis
To improve performance by systematically developing human expertise through organizational development and training
Harless' front-end analysis model

40. Four basic components of a process
Inputs - outputs - process controls - and resources.
Rehersal
Matching current - usually high-potential employees - with future roles within the company to systematic prepare them for a future role
A measure of the variability of scores from the mean

41. The framework developed by Patricia Cross to describe some differences between adult and child learners
An unknown or uncontrolled variable that produces an effect
Learner-centered - content-centered
Characteristics of adults as learners (CAL) conceptual framework
Economic - social - political and legislative - workforce - technological - and competitive.

42. The seven basic self-governing behaviors
Ideas - processes - procedures - methods of operation - concepts - principles - and discoveries
An effective - structured way that captures people's learning from an experience.
Questions that check for understanding or test for consensus
Honesty - fairness - lawfulness - compassion - respect - loyalty - dependability

43. Three tools for determining learner preferences
Managers are responsible for their own development - executives are responsible for the development of their subordinates - the organization is responsible for providing growth opportunities
Productivity Environmental Preference Survey (PEPS) - Canfield Learning Style Inventory - and Learning Style Questionnaire
Solution Implementation
Performance records - direct observation - supervisor checklists

44. Three advantages of interviews as a data gathering technique
Rich data - comparable data across interviews with proper construction of interview protocol - and adds depth to quantative methods
Measures looking at opinions - behaviors - and attributes
Data - Information - Knowledge
Problem - action learning group - emphasis on careful questioning and listening - resolution to take action - commitment to learning - group facilitator/learning coach

45. Extant
Maslow's hierarchy - McGregor's Theory X and Y of management
Data from archival records - existing records - report - and data
Objectivity - confidentiality
Sorting - tabulating - and comparing raw to summarized data

46. Levels of listening
L = P + Q + R. Learning - Programmed instruction - Questioning - Reflection
Driving forces - restraining forces - current state - desired state
Passive - active - empathetic - listening for knowledge - listening for clarification
Matching current - usually high-potential employees - with future roles within the company to systematic prepare them for a future role

47. Covariates
Benefit-to-cost ratio (Total Benefit / Total Program Cost)
The multiple dependent variables in a study with multiple independent variables
Rote skills
Language - speech - environmental - and psychological

48. The topics of the A-B-C-D training development process
The outcome that depends on the independent variable and covariates
Audience - behavior - condition - and degree
Design
Gain understanding or learning objectives - learn the materials - practice the delivery - prepare questions to stimulate learning.

49. The three major tasks of analyzing data
Scaling and integrity
- measure - analyze - improve - control
Sequence
Sorting - tabulating - and comparing raw to summarized data

50. Training that related to actual job circumstances
Visual - Auditory - and Kinestethic
Characteristics of adults as learners (CAL) conceptual framework
Slides
Functional context