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1. 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
Time and resource intensive - undue influence of vocal member(s) - difficult to facilitate with a single facilitator to encourage participation and take notes
Suggestopedia
Form - storm - norm - perform - and adjourn.
Diagnose the problem - generate alternative actions/behaviors - identify consequences for those actions/behaviors

2. The six interactive and interdependent components of an action learning program
Problem - action learning group - emphasis on careful questioning and listening - resolution to take action - commitment to learning - group facilitator/learning coach
Accelerated Learning
Computer-based training. Any learning event that uses computers as the primary distributions method.
The process that connects information - education - expertise - and practical application of people in an organization for the purposes of sharing and access.

3. The model (a pyramid) from bottom to top is: physiology - safety - belongingness - esteem - and self-actualization

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4. Qualitative
Measures looking at opinions - behaviors - and attributes
Analytical - amiable - drivers - expressive
Surveys
Written tests - oral Q&A - performance tests - role plays

5. The instructional design model is based on the assumptions that design happens in a context of project management that establishes roles - tasks - timelines - budgets - checkpoints - and supervisory procedures
Rehersal
Seels and Glasgow instructional systems design model
Learning technologies
Create a vision - communicate the plan - connect the people - congratulate success

6. The four parts of the International Federation's (ICF) ethical standards
Performance audit
Philosophy of coaching - definition of coaching - standards of ethical coaching conduct - pledge of coaching ethics
To aid in career planning
Cause Analysis

7. Examples of collaborative software
Reaction
Request for proposal. A communication from an organization to potential vendors that defines the organizations needs and how to respond to those needs.
Email - whiteboard - bulletin boards - chat rooms - online presentation tools - WIKIs - Blogs - forums - social sites
Cost-effectiveness - accessibility and application - learner access - and self-direction

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

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9. Content validity

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10. Four characteristics of tasks that are well-suited for job aids
Opportunity-centered
Low frequency - high complexity - high consequence of error - high probability of change in the future
Ideas - processes - procedures - methods of operation - concepts - principles - and discoveries
Organization - process - and job/performer.

11. Five ways to use storytelling
Learning
A variable in whole number or distinct units (opposed to continuous)
Two-aix matrixes - flowcharts - dichotomy - graphic models
Capture attention - help message to be remembered - establish rapport - build credibility - and build team unity.

12. The two mechanisms the chaos and complexity theory focus on
Validity
Information - feedback
An unknown or uncontrolled variable that produces an effect
Learning Management System. Software that automates administration - tracking - and reporting of learning events (ILT and online).

13. Contrast mentoring to coaching
Pedagogy
Electronic performance support system (EPSS)
Data from archival records - existing records - report - and data
Mentoring is longer term - and mentors do not have responsibility for participants improvement.

14. Dichotomous
Conduct a SWOT - establish strategic goals - develop strategies to achieve the strategic goals
A variable that can have one of two possible values.
Email - whiteboard - bulletin boards - chat rooms - online presentation tools - WIKIs - Blogs - forums - social sites
Two-aix matrixes - flowcharts - dichotomy - graphic models

15. The linear scale use to rate statements and attitudes
Eager to succeed - open to support - interested in different tactics/methods and trying those out - learning oriented
Questions that check for understanding or test for consensus
Likert scale
Knowledge - skills - desire - environment - and opportunity

16. Four common mistakes HPI professionals make in selecting - designing - and implementing interventions
Failure to partner - failure to consider culture - failure to manage change - and failure to adapt to the client.
Social contexting - contexting - authority - and concept of time
Evaluation
Accelerated Learning

17. The type of results produced by quantative methods
Computer-based training. Any learning event that uses computers as the primary distributions method.
Scaling and integrity
Hard data
Raw and non-contextual - and can exist in forms usable or not

18. learning object
Self-contained chunk of instructional material
Cross-functional - cross-country/international
Determining needs - defining scope and budget - creating and sending the RFP - evaluating proposals and selecting vendors - notifying the vendor and negotiating the contract - implementing the project - monitoring the project - completing and evaluat
Gain understanding or learning objectives - learn the materials - practice the delivery - prepare questions to stimulate learning.

19. The four dimensions of personality per the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Structure and processes - resources - information - knowledge and skills - motives - and wellness.
Learner-centered - content-centered
Numbers or variables used to rank order a system
Extroversion/Introversion - Sensing/Intuition - Thinking/Feeling - Judgment/Perception

20. The framework developed by Patricia Cross to describe some differences between adult and child learners
The process that enables organizations to create short reference materials with relevant information by reducing information into codified - categorized - and reusable content.
Subject-matter expert
Characteristics of adults as learners (CAL) conceptual framework
Phone - VoIP - online meetings - email - specialized software

21. The HPI tool that uses the 80/20 rule
Learning Management System (LMS)
Visual - Auditory - and Kinestethic
Pareto analysis
Identify organizational values - development mission - develop vision - develop value statements

22. Software that automates the administration of training
Structure and processes - resources - information - knowledge and skills - motives - and wellness.
Learning style
Numbers or variables used to classify a system
Learning Management System (LMS)

23. 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
Experiential learning
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
- measure - analyze - improve - control
Growth - exploratory - establishment - maintenance - decline

24. Compare/contrast chaos and complexity
Establish short-term objectives - create an action plan to achieve short-term objectives - allocate resources to the objectives - motivate employees to reach the objectives
Brainstorming - case studies - and role plays
Chaos is simple systems generating complicated behavior. Complexity is complicated systems generating simple behavior.
Managerial/administrative - supervisory - functional

25. Two guiding principles of displaying quantative data in charts and graphs
The minimum time schedule for completing all the tasks in a project with several overlapping or dependent tasks.
Scaling and integrity
Andragogy - time pressures - goal orientation - previous knowledge and experience - relevent content - levels of motivation - and different learning styles
Mentoring is longer term - and mentors do not have responsibility for participants improvement.

26. The five stages of D. E. Super's developmental framework
Questions that stimulate discussion
A variable the influences the dependent variable
Job analysis
Growth - exploratory - establishment - maintenance - decline

27. Two influences of great effect on employee motivation
Data from archival records - existing records - report - and data
Management - performance
Facilitators establish the initial mood or climate of the class experience - and clarify the purpose of individuals as well as the general purposes of the group
An effective - structured way that captures people's learning from an experience.

28. When a WLP professional - prior to a learning session - plans seating arrangement - arranges refreshments - determines goals and expectations for the class - what are they attempting to affect
Rich data - comparable data across interviews with proper construction of interview protocol - and adds depth to quantative methods
problem - establish action plan - clarify values - identify alternatives - discover probable outcomes - eliminate alternatives systematically - start action
Presentation software
External and environmental influences

29. The second component of the ASTD HPI model
L = P + Q + R. Learning - Programmed instruction - Questioning - Reflection
A description or design specification for how information should be treated and organized.
Surveys
Performance Analysis

30. Quantitative
Measures of quantity or numbers
Hypothetical
Proxemics
Andragogy - time pressures - goal orientation - previous knowledge and experience - relevent content - levels of motivation - and different learning styles

31. Three criteria for formative evaluation
Meta-evaluation
Audience - behavior - condition - and degree
Understandable - accurate - functional
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

32. Predictive validity
Indicate whether response was correct - explain an incorrect response or clarify a correct response - give instructions on how to proceed
The extent to which an instrument predicts future results
Focused on learning and using new necessary skills through incremental change
Information that combined with understanding enables understanding

33. Four steps to prepare for training delivery
Interviews
Performance records - direct observation - supervisor checklists
Seels and Glasgow instructional systems design model
Gain understanding or learning objectives - learn the materials - practice the delivery - prepare questions to stimulate learning.

34. The process of giving advice or information from one person to another about the usefulness of an event - process or action
The selection of measurement points which can have a large impact on the research's ability to be generalized
Cognitivism
Feedback
Surveys

35. Three drawbacks of classroom training
HPI uses a results-based - systematic approach - HPI focuses on accomplishments before behavior - Organizations are systems.
Andragogy - time pressures - goal orientation - previous knowledge and experience - relevent content - levels of motivation - and different learning styles
High cost - scheduling difficulties - and temporary (unless learners have opportunity to practice)
Harless' front-end analysis model

36. Types of Level 3 instruments
Action plans - interviews - questionnaires - focus groups - performance contracts
Charts - graphs
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
Social contexting - contexting - authority - and concept of time

37. Two characteristics for any coaching program to succeed
Objectivity - confidentiality
Groupthink
Benjamin Bloom
DMAIC methodology - IPO model - flowcharting - evaluation models

38. The technique that allows a WLP professional to present material in a professional manner - and keep a class focused on the correct topic
Preparation
Sequence
Email - whiteboard - bulletin boards - chat rooms - online presentation tools - WIKIs - Blogs - forums - social sites
Reaction

39. The term for the relationship of people's positions in space
When the cause of the problem is a lack of knowledge or skills
Job analysis
Proxemics
Conduct a SWOT - establish strategic goals - develop strategies to achieve the strategic goals

40. The type of question - often starting with 'what if ...' - that is used to get learners to thinking freely
Balanced scorecard
Theatre style
Hypothetical
Audience - Behavior - Condition - and Degree

41. The third component of the ASTD HPI model
Reliability
Adult learning theories - instructional design techniques
Cause Analysis
Ishikawa - fishbone

42. What does context refer to in designing learning
Learner characteristics like age - educational background - cultural background - learner expectations - and learn motivation to attend
Silence
Numbers or variables used to rank order a system
- measure - analyze - improve - control

43. The three building blocks of knowledge management
Capture attention - help message to be remembered - establish rapport - build credibility - and build team unity.
Data - Information - Knowledge
Behavior
Driving forces - restraining forces - current state - desired state

44. Sequencing and structure are closely related. What is the order in which skills and information are taught
Maslow's hierarchy - McGregor's Theory X and Y of management
Enabling objectives
Sequence
To aid in career planning

45. Confounding
Personal space
Reality - feasibility - authority - and learning opportunities
An unknown or uncontrolled variable that produces an effect
Request for proposal. A communication from an organization to potential vendors that defines the organizations needs and how to respond to those needs.

46. Exercises that include a form of real-life situation that allows participants to practice is called
No area is overlooked - forces to be used are known - there is time to develop other strategies if the analysis reveals the need
Results
Perform a front-end analysis
Simulations

47. The four components of a learning objective
Adult learning theories - instructional design techniques
Thinking about the whole organization - rather than individuals - and looking primarily at processes
Audience - Behavior - Condition - and Degree
Bloom's taxonomy - six sigma - Kepner-Tregoe

48. The six steps in a training needs assessment
Defining objectives - identifying necessary data - selecting data collection methods - collecting data - analyzing and confirming data - and reporting on the data
Meta-evaluation
Return-on-investment ( (Benefits - Costs) / Costs) * 100
Learner-centered - content-centered

49. Four tools and techniques related to six sigma
Pedagogy
Failure to partner - failure to consider culture - failure to manage change - and failure to adapt to the client.
Andragogy - time pressures - goal orientation - previous knowledge and experience - relevent content - levels of motivation - and different learning styles
DMAIC methodology - IPO model - flowcharting - evaluation models

50. Nominal data
Time and resource intensive - undue influence of vocal member(s) - difficult to facilitate with a single facilitator to encourage participation and take notes
The process that connects information - education - expertise - and practical application of people in an organization for the purposes of sharing and access.
Numbers or variables used to classify a system
Upper-left cerebral - lower-left limbic - upper-right cerebral - and lower-right limbic