WGU IDC1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
LATEST UPDATED 2022
What is the primary purpose of conducting a Needs Analysis? ✔✔To gather initial information
about a population that will provide data that can help in making decision
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WGU IDC1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
LATEST UPDATED 2022
What is the primary purpose of conducting a Needs Analysis? ✔✔To gather initial information
about a population that will provide data that can help in making decisions about how to solve a
problem. It gives us information at the beginning of the effort to tell us what is needed to improve
performance.
Who are the people you would ask to participate in a focus group and why? ✔✔Students-they are
the ones who the problem is ultimately affecting and you can gather information on their attitudes
Teachers-They are the ones that implement instruction and can give information about what works
and what does not work.
Administrators-Can provide information on what parents share with them as issues and struggles
students have across the board academically, not in just one class.
Parents-can speak into attitudes on work completion at home and what obstacles are prevalent.
Will an interview ever have more than one respondent? ✔✔Yes, it is important to find out
information from multiple perspectives so that you can gain better insight into the needs of your
students.
What are the four components of a complete goal statement? ✔✔1. The learners 2. What Learners
will be able to do in the performance context 3. The performance context in which the skills will
be applied 4. The tools that will be available to the learners in the performance context.
Why do we write goal statements? ✔✔Goal statements are written so that the effect of the
implemented instruction that will take place can be measured against specific outcomes with
specific circumstances and tools that are available to the learners.
What is the value of conducting a Learner Analysis? ✔✔Learner Analysis helps us shape our
instruction and also how the instruction is delivered, accounting for the specific grouping of
learners that we will have. This can also determine what instructional strategies should be used
and if the strategies should be behavioral, cognitive, or constructivism based.
Why is it important to identify entry-level skills? ✔✔It is important to identify entry-level skills
since new learning will be built upon the foundations of what students already know in relation to
the content. If misconceptions are present, then the new learning will be built upon the
misconceptions.
Which type of assessment measures entry-level skills? ✔✔Interviewing your target learners,
and/or supervisors. Giving a pretest with problems that determine mastery of a certain skill or
skillset.
Why is it important to measure prior knowledge? ✔✔It is so important to measure prior knowledge
since learners build new learning upon whatever knowledge they currently have. This has
implications on whether or not the new learning will meet the instructional goal since new learning
on a misconception could very well be different from the goal.
Which type of assessment measures prior knowledge? ✔✔Interview target learners and/or
supervisors. Observe other teachers in the content area in a performance setting. Use a pretest such
as the one used to determine skills.
What is a task analysis (goal analysis/instructional analysis)? ✔✔Task analysis is the collection of
procedures for defining the content of an instructional unit. It Identifies the content required to
solve the performance problem. Subtle steps that are needed to solve the problem are more easily
identified since the analysis is step by step. And during the process the task designer has an
opportunity to look through the lens of the learner themselves, and ultimately design instruction
around what works for those learners.
What are the parts of Mager's three-part performance objectives? Give an example of each. ✔✔1.
The first part describes the skill identified in the instructional analysis, describing what the learner
will be able to do. BEHAVIOR
"identify the location of a point on the scale in decimal form by estimating between 2 tenth
divisions to the nearest hundredth."
2. The second part of an objective describes the prevailing conditions while a learner carries out
the task. CONDITION
"given a scale marked off in tenths."
3. The third part of an objective describes the criteria to be used to evaluate learner performance.
CRITERIA
"report the reading to within ±.01 units."
Examples:
1. In a workteam meeting (CN), manage the line of discussion (B) so the meeting stays on track
(CR).
2. Using a web search engine (CN), use Boolean operators (B) to narrow the number of relevant
hits by half (CR).
3. From memory (CN), describe the emergency response procedure when a gas detection indictor
goes off (B), exactly as detailed in the company policy manual (CR).
Is a "measurable action verb" a condition, behavior or criteria (which type of performance
objective?) ✔✔Behavior
Is a "minimum level of mastery" a condition, behavior or criteria (which type of performance
objective?) ✔✔criteri
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