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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The tool instructors can leverage from WBT to immediately determine a group's understanding of the material
Behavorism
The sum of the numbers divided by the total number of values
Polling questions
Learning Content Management System. Software that packages courses and learning materials for print - CD-ROM - and electronic publication.

2. List David Kolk's four learning styles
Ishikawa - fishbone
Growth - exploratory - establishment - maintenance - decline
Focused on fundamental changes to thinking patterns and behaviors
Convergers - divergers - assimilators - and accommodators

3. An evaluation of an evaluation
Review strategies - measure performance - take correction action
Andragogy - time pressures - goal orientation - previous knowledge and experience - relevent content - levels of motivation - and different learning styles
Meta-evaluation
Theatre style

4. The topics of the A-B-C-D training development process
Create a vision - communicate the plan - connect the people - congratulate success
Audience - behavior - condition - and degree
External coaching - internal coaching
An effective - structured way that captures people's learning from an experience.

5. Double-loop learning
Numbers or variables used to rank order a system
Focused on fundamental changes to thinking patterns and behaviors
Presentation software
Capture attention - reveal trainer's style - raise participant's comfort level - introduce the topic of the presentation.

6. An assessment done during formation
Pilot tests - technical reviews - production reviews
Sorting - tabulating - and comparing raw to summarized data
Formative evaluation
Validity

7. The four components of a learning objective
Initiating - planning - executing - controlling - closing
To aid in career planning
The minimum time schedule for completing all the tasks in a project with several overlapping or dependent tasks.
Audience - Behavior - Condition - and Degree

8. The reliability test where one test is split into two shorter ones - by randomly assigning test items to one half or the other
Seels and Glasgow instructional systems design model
Solution Implementation
Driving forces - restraining forces - current state - desired state
Split-half

9. The steps of a needs analysis
External/organizational scans - identify business needs - identify change initiatives - collect data - analyze data - report on the data - design the change initiative
Learning Content Management System. Software that packages courses and learning materials for print - CD-ROM - and electronic publication.
Hypothetical
- measure - analyze - improve - control

10. Explicit knowledge
Inputs - outputs - process controls - and resources.
Knowledge that has been documented - includes books - manuals - training courses - job aids - software rules - databases - etc.
Email - whiteboard - bulletin boards - chat rooms - online presentation tools - WIKIs - Blogs - forums - social sites
Audience - Behavior - Condition - and Degree

11. Two characteristics for any coaching program to succeed
Objectivity - confidentiality
Learning Management System (LMS)
The extent to which an instrument represents the program's content
An unknown or uncontrolled variable that produces an effect

12. Five stages of Tuckman's team-maturing model
Entertainment - interaction - control - usability - and customization
Personal space
Form - storm - norm - perform - and adjourn.
Failure to partner - failure to consider culture - failure to manage change - and failure to adapt to the client.

13. The processes performance management is primarily concerned with
Developing employees - motivating employees - deploying employees - aligning people to process to increase performance
Mentoring is longer term - and mentors do not have responsibility for participants improvement.
Solution Implementation
The minimum time schedule for completing all the tasks in a project with several overlapping or dependent tasks.

14. scripting
Control groups - management estimates - extant data - external studies
Initiating - planning - executing - controlling - closing
Structure and processes - resources - information - knowledge and skills - motives - and wellness.
A collection of code containing instructions for a computer to perform a specific action

15. What is an SME
Subject-matter expert
Focused on fundamental shifts in how people view themselves - and intentional alterations of beliefs and values about the world and themselves
Structure
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

16. Sequencing and structure are closely related. What is the order in which skills and information are taught
When the cause of the problem is a lack of knowledge or skills
Convergers - divergers - assimilators - and accommodators
Personal space
Sequence

17. Examples of courseware
Cognitivism
Self-study guides - job aids - instructor-led materials - technology-delivered training deliverables - assessments
Behavorism
Thinking about the whole organization - rather than individuals - and looking primarily at processes

18. The four most important skills for a coach
Functional context
Adult learning theories - instructional design techniques
The expected range of a measurement
Communication - client motivation - self-management - technical skills

19. Change management
Objectivity - confidentiality
Websites where users post questions - thoughts and observations - and can reply to other users postings of the same
Synchrononous occurs at a given time with a live instructor. Asynchronous is self-paced and available at any time.
Change is a process not an event. Change management is the process of directing change at each level of an organization.

20. Meta-tag
Bloom's Taxonomy
In statistics - it means probably true
Information that combined with understanding enables understanding
An HTML tag identifying the context of the contents on a website or knowledge base.

21. BE
Breakeven ( ( Program Costs / Investment ) / ( Benefits / Cash Inflow) )
Focused on learning and using new necessary skills through incremental change
Phone - VoIP - online meetings - email - specialized software
Technology - new products - shareholders - financial conditions - system challenges - process challenges - policies

22. The popularizer of the multiple intelligences theory
Constraints analysis
Capture attention - help message to be remembered - establish rapport - build credibility - and build team unity.
Results
Howard Gardner

23. Contrast synchronous to asynchronous e-learning
Knowledge - skills
Growth - exploratory - establishment - maintenance - decline
Synchrononous occurs at a given time with a live instructor. Asynchronous is self-paced and available at any time.
Information that combined with understanding enables understanding

24. The method used to identify the efficiency and effectiveness of employees
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
Performance audit
Understandable - accurate - functional
Learner self-concept - Learner prior experience - Readiness to learn - Orientation to learning - and Motivation to learn

25. Predictive validity
Review strategies - measure performance - take correction action
Separation of place - time - or both among learners - instructors - and learning resources; Interactions are conducted through one or mode media.
Management - performance
The extent to which an instrument predicts future results

26. Four tasks typically done in the job analysis
Create new hire training - develop behavior-based interview questions - write performance objectives - prepare employees for career progression
Design
Extroversion/Introversion - Sensing/Intuition - Thinking/Feeling - Judgment/Perception
Rote skills

27. RFP
Robert Mager
Management - performance
Request for proposal. A communication from an organization to potential vendors that defines the organizations needs and how to respond to those needs.
L = P + Q + R. Learning - Programmed instruction - Questioning - Reflection

28. The instrument where participants rate two contrasting ideas or words by circling points on a line
Threat - problem - solution - habit
Semantic differential
Structure and processes - resources - information - knowledge and skills - motives - and wellness.
Control groups - management estimates - extant data - external studies

29. The analysis that serves as a reality check to identify a project's limiting factors
Bloom's Taxonomy
Constraints analysis
Convergers - divergers - assimilators - and accommodators
Change is a process not an event. Change management is the process of directing change at each level of an organization.

30. Sampling

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31. The guidelines Carl Rogers describes as critical elements to remember in adult learning situations
Learner-centered - content-centered
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
Psychomotor skills
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

32. The two primary tools for the visual display of quantitative data
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
Charts - graphs
The sum of the numbers divided by the total number of values
Communication - client motivation - self-management - technical skills

33. Four ways to create a learning climate based on Knowles' work
Perform a front-end analysis
Create safe haven for learning - create a comfortable environment - encourage participation - facilitate more than lecture.
Rehersal
Information - feedback

34. The method where instruction is provided in a self-directed format that is available at all times - even with a facilitator is not online
Audience - Behavior - Condition - and Degree
Asynchronous
Perform a front-end analysis
Preparation

35. Four basic components of a process
Learner-centered - content-centered
Failure to partner - failure to consider culture - failure to manage change - and failure to adapt to the client.
Inputs - outputs - process controls - and resources.
Extroversion/Introversion - Sensing/Intuition - Thinking/Feeling - Judgment/Perception

36. The first component of the ASTD HPI model
Business Analysis
The expected range of a measurement
Engage learner's attention - present materials as input to brain - practice with ideas and skills - review to create new connections and applications
Managerial/administrative - supervisory - functional

37. Skills / knowledge areas that SMEs may lack
Solution Selection
Adult learning theories - instructional design techniques
Split-half
Learner self-concept - Learner prior experience - Readiness to learn - Orientation to learning - and Motivation to learn

38. Data
Raw and non-contextual - and can exist in forms usable or not
Determine business impact - improve the design of the learning experience - determine the content's adequacy
Solution Implementation
Reliability

39. The fourth component of the ASTD HPI model
Solution Selection
Charts - graphs
Driving forces - restraining forces - current state - desired state
Indicate whether response was correct - explain an incorrect response or clarify a correct response - give instructions on how to proceed

40. The difference between an icebreaker and an opening exercise
Knowledge - skills
Change is a process not an event. Change management is the process of directing change at each level of an organization.
Icebreakers do not have to relate to the session materials. Opening exercise introduces the session materials being taught.
A description or design specification for how information should be treated and organized.

41. Standard deviation
A measure of the variability of scores from the mean
Capture attention - help message to be remembered - establish rapport - build credibility - and build team unity.
Disengagement - disidentification - disorientation - and disenchantment.
Agreeing with the client when another response would be better - being judgmental or too rigid - progressing at the wrong pace (too fast/too slow) for the client

42. The creator of the theory of three types of learning - knowledge - skills - and attitudes
Benjamin Bloom
Rote skills
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
External coaching - internal coaching

43. learning object
Identify performance gaps - gains commitment to learning - constructs practice to close gaps - drives application and reflection to improve competence
Learning technologies
Self-contained chunk of instructional material
Communication - client motivation - self-management - technical skills

44. The use of electronic technologies to deliver information and facilitate the development of skills
Learning technologies
The extent to which an instrument represents the program's content
Raw and non-contextual - and can exist in forms usable or not
Written tests - oral Q&A - performance tests - role plays

45. LCMS
Create safe haven for learning - create a comfortable environment - encourage participation - facilitate more than lecture.
Learning Content Management System. Software that packages courses and learning materials for print - CD-ROM - and electronic publication.
Performance records - direct observation - supervisor checklists
Cause Analysis

46. Four things a coach does
Questionnaires - follow-up interviews - observation checklists
Identify organizational values - development mission - develop vision - develop value statements
Information - feedback
Identify performance gaps - gains commitment to learning - constructs practice to close gaps - drives application and reflection to improve competence

47. The five characteristics of every job that influence employee motivation
Breakeven ( ( Program Costs / Investment ) / ( Benefits / Cash Inflow) )
Enabling objectives
Skill variety - task identity - task significance - autonomy - feedback
Something that disrupts the flow of information between source and receiver

48. A method used to evaluation organizational effectiveness beyond financial measures
Balanced scorecard
Engage learner's attention - present materials as input to brain - practice with ideas and skills - review to create new connections and applications
The outcome that depends on the independent variable and covariates
Request for proposal. A communication from an organization to potential vendors that defines the organizations needs and how to respond to those needs.

49. Describe a message board
Room size or number of participants is too large - when trainer wants to be more formal - when trainer has illegible handwriting - when the trainer presents the same program regularly.
Performance records - direct observation - supervisor checklists
Websites where users post questions - thoughts and observations - and can reply to other users postings of the same
The process that connects information - education - expertise - and practical application of people in an organization for the purposes of sharing and access.

50. DMAIC
- measure - analyze - improve - control
To aid in career planning
Room size or number of participants is too large - when trainer wants to be more formal - when trainer has illegible handwriting - when the trainer presents the same program regularly.
Cost or budget - lesson content - learner background and expectations - time available - and facilities/equipment/materials