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1. What is an SME
Knowledge in one's personal memory - includes judgment - insights - experience - know-how - personal beliefs - and personal values.
A variable whose quantification can be broken down into very small units - often called analog (opposed to discrete)
Reaction
Subject-matter expert

2. The difference between an icebreaker and an opening exercise
Phone - VoIP - online meetings - email - specialized software
Identify organizational values - development mission - develop vision - develop value statements
Time and resource intensive - undue influence of vocal member(s) - difficult to facilitate with a single facilitator to encourage participation and take notes
Icebreakers do not have to relate to the session materials. Opening exercise introduces the session materials being taught.

3. The theory that matches individual needs to instructional experiences
High cost - scheduling difficulties - and temporary (unless learners have opportunity to practice)
Opportunity-centered
The process that enables organizations to create short reference materials with relevant information by reducing information into codified - categorized - and reusable content.
Characteristics of adults as learners (CAL) conceptual framework

4. Describe a message board
Discovery - Dream - Design - and Destiny
Websites where users post questions - thoughts and observations - and can reply to other users postings of the same
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
Validity

5. Knowledge management
The explicit and systematic management of intellectual capital and organizational knowledge for the purpose of improving organizations and the people in the organizations; as well as - associated processes like creating - gathering - organizing - ret
problem - establish action plan - clarify values - identify alternatives - discover probable outcomes - eliminate alternatives systematically - start action
Computer-based training. Any learning event that uses computers as the primary distributions method.
Measures of quantity or numbers

6. The components of the action learning formula
Asynchronous
L = P + Q + R. Learning - Programmed instruction - Questioning - Reflection
Review strategies - measure performance - take correction action
Rehersal

7. The seven basic self-governing behaviors
Cost or budget - lesson content - learner background and expectations - time available - and facilities/equipment/materials
Honesty - fairness - lawfulness - compassion - respect - loyalty - dependability
Job analysis
Icebreakers do not have to relate to the session materials. Opening exercise introduces the session materials being taught.

8. The method where instruction is provided in a self-directed format that is available at all times - even with a facilitator is not online
Developing employees - motivating employees - deploying employees - aligning people to process to increase performance
A visual tools used to systematically describe actions/behaviors in a sequential flow - including all the steps and tasks for that process flow.
Objectivity - confidentiality
Asynchronous

9. Four benefits of web-based training
Simulations
Cognitive
The expected range of a measurement
Cost-effectiveness - accessibility and application - learner access - and self-direction

10. Four elements of an effective oral presentation
Structure
Opener - bridge - main body - and close
A variable that can have one of two possible values.
Learning Management System (LMS)

11. List David Kolk's four learning styles
Brainstorming - case studies - and role plays
Convergers - divergers - assimilators - and accommodators
Capture attention - reveal trainer's style - raise participant's comfort level - introduce the topic of the presentation.
Threat - problem - solution - habit

12. Two guiding principles of displaying quantative data in charts and graphs
Email - whiteboard - bulletin boards - chat rooms - online presentation tools - WIKIs - Blogs - forums - social sites
Scaling and integrity
When the cause of the problem is a lack of knowledge or skills
Robert Mager

13. The learning domain that focuses on the skills and knowledge relating to an activity such as changing a car's oil
Learning Management System. Software that automates administration - tracking - and reporting of learning events (ILT and online).
Cognitive
Bloom's taxonomy - six sigma - Kepner-Tregoe
Rehersal

14. The fifth component of the ASTD HPI model
Solution Implementation
Disengagement - disidentification - disorientation - and disenchantment.
Job analysis
Engage learner's attention - present materials as input to brain - practice with ideas and skills - review to create new connections and applications

15. Double-loop learning
Focused on fundamental changes to thinking patterns and behaviors
Polling questions
Data from archival records - existing records - report - and data
When the cause of the problem is a lack of knowledge or skills

16. The six factors an instructional designer must consider before choosing techniques and training materials
Solution Implementation
The most frequently occurring value
Objectivity - confidentiality
Cost or budget - lesson content - learner background and expectations - time available - and facilities/equipment/materials

17. The five stages of D. E. Super's developmental framework
Reliability
Theatre style
Growth - exploratory - establishment - maintenance - decline
Low frequency - high complexity - high consequence of error - high probability of change in the future

18. The HPI tool that can gather both qualitative and quantitative data
Behavorism
Preparation
Job analysis
Surveys

19. the meaning of significant - in a statistical context
Return-on-investment ( (Benefits - Costs) / Costs) * 100
Validity
In statistics - it means probably true
Harless' front-end analysis model

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

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21. An assessment done during formation
Formative evaluation
Learning organizations - systems thinking
Management - performance
Learner self-concept - Learner prior experience - Readiness to learn - Orientation to learning - and Motivation to learn

22. Exercises that include a form of real-life situation that allows participants to practice is called
Simulations
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
Rehersal
Driving forces - restraining forces - current state - desired state

23. The type of question - often starting with 'what if ...' - that is used to get learners to thinking freely
Evaluation
Bloom's Taxonomy
Job analysis
Hypothetical

24. BCR
Split-half
Benefit-to-cost ratio (Total Benefit / Total Program Cost)
Structure
Job aids - and EPSS

25. Systems thinking
Visual - Auditory - and Kinestethic
A measure of the variability of scores from the mean
Rote skills - and prerequisite material
Thinking about the whole organization - rather than individuals - and looking primarily at processes

26. Things feedback to a learner that answered a question should do
An unknown or uncontrolled variable that produces an effect
Indicate whether response was correct - explain an incorrect response or clarify a correct response - give instructions on how to proceed
Identify organizational values - development mission - develop vision - develop value statements
DMAIC methodology - IPO model - flowcharting - evaluation models

27. Three advantages of interviews as a data gathering technique
The minimum time schedule for completing all the tasks in a project with several overlapping or dependent tasks.
Rich data - comparable data across interviews with proper construction of interview protocol - and adds depth to quantative methods
Synchrononous occurs at a given time with a live instructor. Asynchronous is self-paced and available at any time.
Disengagement - disidentification - disorientation - and disenchantment.

28. Sequencing and structure are closely related. What is the order in which skills and information are taught
Evaluation
Sequence
Action plans - interviews - questionnaires - focus groups - performance contracts
Interview - survey/questionnaire - observation - focus group - work diary/work log

29. Describe how facilitation differs from training
Change is a process not an event. Change management is the process of directing change at each level of an organization.
Data that has been given context
Knowledge that has been documented - includes books - manuals - training courses - job aids - software rules - databases - etc.
Facilitation is used to involve participants - and to help them learn from one another.

30. Level 3 evaluation
Results
Facilitation is used to involve participants - and to help them learn from one another.
Structure and processes - resources - information - knowledge and skills - motives - and wellness.
Image oriented - interactive - immediate - and intimate.

31. The tell approach to learning - based on the theory that learning occurs through exposure to logically presented information - usually involving lecture
Central tendency
Cognitivism
Conduct a SWOT - establish strategic goals - develop strategies to achieve the strategic goals
Theatre style

32. The facilitation tool that can create just enough tension to get people thinking
Focused on learning and using new necessary skills through incremental change
Silence
Productivity Environmental Preference Survey (PEPS) - Canfield Learning Style Inventory - and Learning Style Questionnaire
Change Management

33. The six major factors that influence performance in Gilbert's behavior engineering model
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
Separation of place - time - or both among learners - instructors - and learning resources; Interactions are conducted through one or mode media.
Do not discriminate in any aspect of employment based on disabilities - with reasonable accommodations such as interpreters - reading aids - instructional material modifications - etc.
Information - resources - incentives/consequences - knowledge and skills - capacity - and motivation.

34. Single-loop learning
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
Focused on learning and using new necessary skills through incremental change
Functional context
Characteristics of adults as learners (CAL) conceptual framework

35. The instrument where participants rate two contrasting ideas or words by circling points on a line
Semantic differential
Howard Gardner
The expected range of a measurement
Cross-functional - cross-country/international

36. Types of formative evaluation
Pilot tests - technical reviews - production reviews
Sequence
Information that combined with understanding enables understanding
Monetary impact/ROI

37. The purpose of workforce planning
Rapid instructional design (RID)
Enabling objectives
Charts - graphs
To improve performance by systematically developing human expertise through organizational development and training

38. The measure that is defined by mean - median - and mode
Do not discriminate in any aspect of employment based on disabilities - with reasonable accommodations such as interpreters - reading aids - instructional material modifications - etc.
L = P + Q + R. Learning - Programmed instruction - Questioning - Reflection
Central tendency
Documentation audit - information system survey - identification of external information sources

39. The four quadrants in W.E. (Ned) Herrmann's learning brain model
Simulations
Upper-left cerebral - lower-left limbic - upper-right cerebral - and lower-right limbic
Pilot tests - technical reviews - production reviews
Robert Mager

40. Three criteria for formative evaluation
Constraints analysis
Understandable - accurate - functional
Split-half
Upper-left cerebral - lower-left limbic - upper-right cerebral - and lower-right limbic

41. The collection of strategies for quickly producing instructional packages
Change Management
Learning organizations - systems thinking
Rapid instructional design (RID)
Validity

42. Cordinal data
Behavior
Numbers or variables used to rank order a system
A group of people who share a common interest - and are willing to share the experiences of their common interest.
An unknown or uncontrolled variable that produces an effect

43. Three learner preferences as defined by the VAK model
Interviews
Eager to succeed - open to support - interested in different tactics/methods and trying those out - learning oriented
Visual - Auditory - and Kinestethic
Determine business impact - improve the design of the learning experience - determine the content's adequacy

44. Two types of coaching situations that primarily differ on the degree of confidentiality and sensitivity
Economic - social - political and legislative - workforce - technological - and competitive.
External coaching - internal coaching
A variable in whole number or distinct units (opposed to continuous)
Polling questions

45. 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
Self-contained chunk of instructional material
Suggestopedia
Websites where users post questions - thoughts and observations - and can reply to other users postings of the same
Cause Analysis

46. The reliability test where one test is split into two shorter ones - by randomly assigning test items to one half or the other
Competing - accommodating - avoiding - collaborating - and compromising.
Split-half
Establish scope - create plan - implement plan - monitor/evaluate/revise plan
The world is created in conversation

47. Four characteristics of effective openers

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48. The purposes of training evaluation

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49. The kinds of objectives that support the final behavioral outcomes by breaking them down into more manageable chunks
Separation of place - time - or both among learners - instructors - and learning resources; Interactions are conducted through one or mode media.
Questions that check for understanding or test for consensus
Control groups - management estimates - extant data - external studies
Enabling objectives

50. The linear scale use to rate statements and attitudes
Balanced scorecard
Synchrononous occurs at a given time with a live instructor. Asynchronous is self-paced and available at any time.
Request for proposal. A communication from an organization to potential vendors that defines the organizations needs and how to respond to those needs.
Likert scale